Special Issue "Actuators and Dampers for Vibration Control: Damping and Isolation Applications"
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vibration control; mainly focused on civil engineering and robotics applications
Interests: control of vibrations caused by human activities on civil engineering structures
Interests: precision mechatronics and robotics; control of dynamical systems; vibration damping and isolation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mitigating vibration-induced system performance limitations has been an active area of research impacting several scientific and technological fields. Unwanted vibrations arise from several inherent and exogenous sources and severely limit performance in a wide range of systems, such as precision robots, high-sensitivity measuring devices, high-density storage devices, micro- and nanoscale machining, structural integrity, and human comfort in civil structures, as well as several aerospace and defense applications. Strategies to mitigate these unwanted vibration-related issues can be broadly grouped into two categories: (i) vibration damping and (ii) vibration isolation. Each of these categories can be further divided into two classes: (i) passive and (ii) active. Practical implementation of these strategies has resulted in significant research interest in the development of actuators and dampers. This Special Issue is focused on highlighting current developments in this area.
Contributions from all the fields related to actuators and dampers are welcome to this Special Issue. Of particular interest are:
- Passive, semiactive, and active actuators used in damping and isolation applications;
- Practical implementation issues of actuators in damping and isolation applications;
- Optimization of isolation and damping vibration systems;
- Vibration control in civil structures induced by wind, earthquakes, and humans;
- Trajectory tracking in nanopositioners applications;
- Robotics applications with flexibility in links or joints;
- Vibration isolation in aerospace and defense applications;
- Vibration isolation in extremely low vibration level applications.
Dr. Emiliano Pereira González
Prof. Dr. Paul Reynolds
Dr. Sumeet S. Aphale
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vibration damping
- vibration isolation
- precise positioning
- trajectory tracking
- alignment
- inertial mass actuators
- tuned mass damper
- tuned liquid damper
- electromagnetic damper
- optimal design
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Type: Article
Title: Performance of TMDI for Tall Buildings
Authors: Felix Weber(1), Peter Huber(2), Fredrik Borchsenius(3), Christian Braun(2)
(1) Maurer Switzerland GmbH, Grossplatzstrasse 24, 8118 Pfaffhausen, Switzerland;
(2) Maurer SE, Frankfurter Ring 193, 80807 Munich, Germany;
[email protected]; [email protected]
(3) Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, 93049 Regensburg, Germany;
Abstract: This study investigates the vibration reduction efficiency of the TMD with Inerter (TMDI) compared to the TMD for wind-excited tall buildings. For this study it is assumed that the inerter is grounded to any floor below the pendulum mass. As limiting case the additional configuration is computed where the inerter is grounded to earth. The simulations are made for broadband and harmonic excitation of the first four bending modes. It is found that the inerter performs best when it is grounded to earth because then the virtual mass increase due to the inerter is fully present which is also seen from the equations of motion for that case. However, if the inerter is grounded to a floor below the TMD then vibrations are only further reduced if the inerter is grounded to a floor within approximately the first half of the building height. Considering that the only realistic inerter ground is close to the TMD room it is concluded that the concept of the TMDI for tall building damping is at least questionable.
Article to be submitted: end of November