Node Control of Uniform Beams Subject to Various Boundary Conditions

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Weaver ◽  
L. Silverberg

This paper introduces node control, whereby discrete direct feedback control forces are placed at the nodes of the N+1th mode (the lowest N modes participate in the response). Node control is motivated by the node control theorem which states, under certain conditions, that node control preserves the natural frequencies and natural modes of vibration of the controlled system while achieving uniform damping. The node control theorem is verified for uniform beams with pinned-pinned, cantilevered, and free-free boundary conditions, and two cases of beams with springs on the boundaries. A general proof of the node control theorem remains elusive.

2014 ◽  
Vol 564 ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
S.T. Cheng ◽  
Nawal Aswan Abdul Jalil ◽  
Zamir A. Zulkefli

Vibration based technique have so far been focused on the identification of structural damage. However, not many studies have been conducted on the corrosion identification on pipes. The objective of this paper is to identify corrosion on pipes from vibration measurements. A hollow pipe, 500 mm in length with 63.5 mm in diameter was subjected to impact loading using an impact hammer to identify the natural frequency of the tube in two conditions i) without any corrosion and ii) with an induced localized 40 mm by 40 mm corrosion at the middle of the pipe. The shift of natural frequencies of the structures under free boundary conditions was examined for each node of excitation. The results showed that there is a shift in natural frequency of the pipe, between 3 and 4 Hz near to the corrosion area. It can suggested that that the impact vibration is capable of identifying of localized corrosion on a hollow tube.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Silverberg ◽  
M. Morton

This paper examines families of structural control systems and reveals inherent properties that provide the essential motivation behind the theory of Natural Control. It is determined that the associated fuel consumed by the controls is near minimal when the natural frequencies are identical to the controlled modal frequencies, and when the natural modes of vibration are identical to the controlled modes of vibration. Also, by casting the objective to suppress vibration in the form of an exponential stability condition, it is found that vibration is most efficiently suppressed when the modal damping rates are identical to a designer chosen decay rate. The use of a limited number of control forces over distributed control is characterized by a change in fuel consumed by the controls and by a deterioration in the dynamic performance reflected by changes in the modal damping rates. The Natural Control of a space truss demonstrates the results.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 461
Author(s):  
Kenta Oishi ◽  
Yoshihiro Shibata

In this paper, we consider the motion of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with resistivity in a domain bounded by a free surface. An electromagnetic field generated by some currents in an external domain keeps an MHD flow in a bounded domain. On the free surface, free boundary conditions for MHD flow and transmission conditions for electromagnetic fields are imposed. We proved the local well-posedness in the general setting of domains from a mathematical point of view. The solutions are obtained in an anisotropic space Hp1((0,T),Hq1)∩Lp((0,T),Hq3) for the velocity field and in an anisotropic space Hp1((0,T),Lq)∩Lp((0,T),Hq2) for the magnetic fields with 2<p<∞, N<q<∞ and 2/p+N/q<1. To prove our main result, we used the Lp-Lq maximal regularity theorem for the Stokes equations with free boundary conditions and for the magnetic field equations with transmission conditions, which have been obtained by Frolova and the second author.


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