Active control of secondary resonances piezoelectric sandwich beams (Q984380)

Two piezoelectric thin layers, at the top and at the bottom of a rectangular elastic beam, act as sensor and actuator, respectively, their electric potentials being related the one another by a feedback relationship. Anharmonic vibrations and resonances occur in the transversally excited, clamped beam, due to the geometrical nonlinearities of the adopted von Karman model. Explicit analytical and numerical results for vibrations and resonances depending on the electric parameters are provided by the authors.