It is possible to model smart structures with piezoelectric materials using the product ANSYS/Multiphysics. In this study, the integration of control actions into the ANSYS solution is realized. First, the procedure is tested on the active vibration control problem with a two-degrees of freedom system. The analytical results obtained by the Laplace transform method and by ANSYS are compared. Th...

Thepresent paper discusses active vibration control of a cantilever beam subjected to random base excitation. The smart materials used are piezoelectric patches for both as sensor and actuator, and actuation based on the surface strains. Finite element model of the smart beam is obtained using Euler-Bernoulli formulation. Positive Position Feedback (PPF) controller is proposed for active dampin...

A shell can be described via the oriented distance function, which provides a natural and simple tool to describe the geometric properties of a set and of its boundary. The advantage of this approach is the total absence of Christoffel symbols. This description is well suited for the area of smart systems, where the adaptation of the existing techniques of control theory is made easier. We shal...

this study presents a new approach to control the nonlinear dynamics of an adaptive absorber using shape memory alloy (sma) element. shape memory alloys are classified as smart materials that can remember their original shape after deformation. stress and temperature-induced phase transformations are two typical behaviors of shape memory alloys. changing the stiffness associated with phase tran...

This paper deals with the active vibration control of beam like structures with distributed piezoelechic sensor and actuator layers bonded on top and bottom surfaces of the beam. A finite element model based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory has been developed. The contribution of the piezoelectric sensor and actuator layers on the mass and stiffness of the beam is colisidered. Three types of clas...

For spacecraft with large flexible antennas, andor flexible support structures, suppressing vibrations caused by on-orbit operational disturbances (e.g., antenna slew maneuvers and thruster firings) is a challenging problem. In the past several years, advances in smart structure technologies have made their use in real-time dynamic control cif a structure possible. This paper discusses analytic...

An aeroelastic model of a smart rotor system (which incorporates blade-mounted trailing-edge flap actuators and conventional root pitch actuation) is presented in linear time invariant state space form. The servo-flap deflections are modeled as producing incremental lift and moment variations, so that any linear aerodynamic actuator can be evaluated. This smart rotor model is used to conduct pa...

in the present research, nonlinear vibration in a coupled system of boron-nitride nano-tube reinforced composite (bnntrc) oil pipes is studied. single-walled boron-nitride nano-tubes (swbnnts) are arranged in a longitudinal direction inside poly-vinylidene fluoride (pvdf) matrix. damping and shearing effects of surrounded medium are taken into account by visco-pasternak model. based on piezoele...