Vibration Damping

Dear Colleagues,

Vibration control consists of attenuating excessive amplitudes of oscillations and suppressing undesirable resonances to avoid premature fatigue failure of structural components. The use of one form of vibration control or another in most newly designed structures is becoming commonplace to meet the pressing needs for large and lightweight structures. Various passive, active and hybrid vibration control approaches have been considered over the years, employing a variety of structural designs, damping materials, active control laws, actuators and sensors. While most approaches appearing in the literature rely on dissipating mechanical energy for vibration control purposes, vibration energy harvesting that aims at providing energy for low-power wireless sensor networks and microelectronic systems offers an alternative way to damp unwanted vibrations, employing various conversion techniques and using specialized electronic interfaces that perform a nonlinear active treatment of the voltage generated by the harvester, inspired by the synchronized switch damping method. This Special Issue is dedicated to the topic of vibration damping and seeks the most recent advances recorded therein. It particularly focuses on passive damping systems such as constrained layer damping, shunted piezoelectric treatments, damping layers with shunted piezoelectric treatments, magnetic constrained layer damping, shape memory alloy damping, active vibration control systems with piezoelectric layers such as active constrained layer damping, active piezoelectric damping composites, electromagnetic damping composites, active shunted piezoelectric networks and finally on vibration energy harvesting devices using piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrostatic or hybrid conversion mechanisms. It emphasizes approaches based on mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamical system analysis, finite element modeling and simulation, optimal design, uncertainty quantification, nonlinear recovery circuits and experimental proof of concepts for vibration damping purposes. The main objective is to provide a broad overview of recent developments and results in this field, as well as an idea of the potential for their extension and generalization to current and future industry applications.

Dr. Mohamed Hamdaoui
Dr. Kouider Bendine
Guest Editors

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