Active Vibration Damping Using Distributed Actuators

Wednesday, April 29, 1987 1:00 p.m. Deborah A. Summa Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Active vibration control techniques to date apply point sensors and actuators to con­tinuous systems. Such techniques, while adequate, require excessive signal condition­ing and involve approximations which often result in modal truncation. Continuous film transducers allow the…