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Volume 12, Issue 1 pp. 703-704
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Modelling and control of a smart beam

Nader Ghareeb, 

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Nader Ghareeb

Institut für Allgemeine Mechanik, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 64, 52062 Aachen

Nader Ghareeb, phone +49 241 80 94601, fax +49 241 80 92231

Ruediger Schmidt, phone +49 241 80 94602, fax +49 241 80 92231

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Ruediger Schmidt, 

Corresponding Author

Ruediger Schmidt

Institut für Allgemeine Mechanik, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 64, 52062 Aachen

Nader Ghareeb, phone +49 241 80 94601, fax +49 241 80 92231

Ruediger Schmidt, phone +49 241 80 94602, fax +49 241 80 92231

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First published: 03 December 2012
https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.201210340

Abstract

In this paper, a linear controller based on the Lyapunov stability theorem is designed and implemented on a smart beam. This smart beam consists of a steel beam with a piezoactuator bonded to it. The controller is used to attentuate the vibrations of the smart beam while exciting it by it's first eigenmode. A super element (SE) model of the same beam is firstly derived, and the controller is implemented on the SE and results are shown. (© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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