Among various strategies developed for the attenuation of noise and vibration in mechanical
structures, piezoelectric shunt damping, which consists in connecting piezoelectric …

Considering the number of applications, and the quantity of research conducted over the
past few decades, it would not be an overstatement to label the piezoelectric materials as …

By employing periodic electrical boundary conditions, an innovative method to generate
actively tunable topologically protected interface mode in a “homogeneous” piezoelectric …

Flexible mechanical systems experience undesirable vibration in response to environmental
and operational forces. The very existence of vibrations can limit the accuracy of sensitive …

The design, identification, and control of a novel, flexure-based, piezoelectric stack-actuated
XY nanopositioning stage are presented in this paper. The main goal of the design is to …

This paper investigates the nonlinear mass and damping effects of nonlinear
electromagnetic shunt damping (N-EMSD) for vibration isolation performance enhancement …

Smart materials and structures have attracted a significant amount of attention for their
vibration control potential in engineering applications. Compared to the traditional active …

Vibration control using piezoelectric actuators has experienced a strong development these
last years. Particularly, non-linear techniques have been proven to be low-cost and efficient …

Multiple-modes of structural vibration can be suppressed through the connection of an
electrical impedance to the terminals of a bonded piezoelectric transducer. The so-called …

Vibration-based energy harvesting using piezoelectric cantilevers has been extensively
studied over the past decade. As an alternative to cantilevered harvesters, piezoelectric …