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 …

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

Piezoelectric vibration control holds the advantages of lightweight and anti-electromagnetic
interference, and has broad application prospects in fields such as aerospace and …

Active noise control (ANC) methods have been extensively used for reducing the noise level
over the past decade. In particular, in the range of low frequencies they can effectively …

Noise-Controlling Casings offers a range of feasible noise-controlling strategies for different
kinds of devices generating excessive noise. Depending on the required performance and …

Synchronized switch damping (SSD) techniques have been developed for structural
vibration suppression in recent years. In SSD control, a self-sensing approach can invert the …

This study presents vibration control using actively tunable vibration absorbers (ATVA) to
suppress vibration of a thin plate. The ATVA is made of a sandwich hollow structure …

Synchronized-switching techniques have significantly enhanced the harvested energy from
semipassive and active surrounding ambient mechanical vibration harvesters. They have …

The objective of this paper is to amplify the output voltage magnitude from a piezoelectric
vibration energy harvester under nonstationary and broadband vibration conditions …