Semi-active Vibration Suppression - The Best from Active and Passive Technologies
Invited Lecturers
- David Carlson (Lord Corporation, Cary, NC 27511, USA)
6 lectures on:
Magnetorheological fluids and their applications: Physics, chimestry and rheology; MR device basics; MR fluid dampers; performance and limitations; applications in automotive, civil engineering and other…- Fabio Casciati (Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
5 lectures on:
Various applications of semi-active technology in civil engineering.- Daniel Guyomar (INSA Lyon - Bât Gustave Ferrié, Villeurbanne, France)
6 lectures on:
Piezoelectricity and transduction mechanisms, Self-powered semi-passive techniques for narrow band vibration damping, Semi-passive techniques for acoustic wave transmission reduction, Extension of semi-passive techniques to broadband signals, Electrical energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations.- Steen Krenk (Technical Univ. of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
6 lectures on:
Basic principle for damping and dampers; energy balance and equivalent damping properties; tuned-mass damper; passive damping of flexible structures; damping predictions, optimal calibration; cable vibration, footbridge example.- Andre Preumont (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
7 lectures on:
Modelling of electromechanical and piezoelectric systems, active vibration damping with collocated actuator-sensor pairs, application to large trusses and cable-structures, active vibration isolation, sky-hook damper, passive and semi-active damping with piezoelectric transducers.- Michael Valasek (Czech Technical Univ. Prague, Praha 2, Czech Rep.)
5 lectures on:
Methods for semi-active suppression synthesis and various applications of semi-active technology in vehicles (road friendly, bridge friendly, soil friendly, brake friendly, etc…); torsional vibration suppression on machinery.