Vibration Control of Active Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-12

3. Some concepts of structural dynamics

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   Pages 13-31

4. Actuators, piezoelectric materials, and active structures

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   Pages 32-59

5. Collocated versus non-collocated control

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   Pages 60-74

6. Active damping with collocated pairs

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   Pages 75-90

7. State space approach

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   Pages 91-117

8. Analysis and synthesis in the frequency domain

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   Pages 118-144

9. Optimal control

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   Pages 145-172

10. Controllability and Observability

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    Pages 173-195

11. Stability

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    Pages 196-212

12. Applications

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    Pages 213-248

13. Back Matter

    Pages 249-261

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I was introduced to structural control by Raphael Haftka and Bill Hallauer during a one year stay at the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering department of Virginia Tech., during the academic year 1985-1986. At that time, there was a tremendous interest in large space structures in the USA, mainly because of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the space station program. Most of the work was theoretical or numerical, but Bill Hallauer was one of the few experimen­ talists trying to implement control systems which worked on actual structures. When I returned to Belgium, I was appointed at the chair of Mechanical Engi­ neering and Robotics at ULB, and I decided to start some basic vibration control experiments on my own. A little later, smart materials became widely available and offered completely new possibilities, particularly for precision structures, but also brought new difficulties due to the strong coupling in their constitutive equations, which requires a complete reformulation of the classical modelling techniques such as finite elements. We started in this new field with the sup­ port of the national and regional governments, the European Space Agency, and some bilateral collaborations with European aerospace companies. Our Active Structures Laboratory was inaugurated in October 1995.

• beam
• design
• dynamics
• instability
• robustness
• stability
• structural dynamics
• vibration

`The book is highly recommended to students, practising structural engineers and to researchers who are interested in vibration control and active structures.'
Zentralblatt MATH, 910 (1999)
`The book is written in a very easy and interesting style and has a good set of problems at the end of each chapter. This reviewer enjoyed reading the book and would recommend it for any graduate course on control of structures. This book occupies a unique place in the set of references in this important field.'
Mechatronics, 10 (2000)

• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  André Preumont

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