Active Stiffener Actuators for High-Precision Shape Control of Circular Plate Structure

For modern hot tandem mill, various shape control means are equipped, so its shape control ability is strong. How to reasonably distribute every stand’s shape control ability is a difficult problem. If the distribution scheme is unreasonable, every stand’s shape control ability maybe waste or offset each other, eventually product’s shape quality is inevitable unsatisfactory. To achieve high precision shape control, a reasonably shape control strategy is necessary, whose job is to make use of every stand’s utmost shape control ability, with a constraint that every stand’s flatness must not be buckling, finally ensuring product’s flatness and crown meet industrial demand simultaneously. A quantitative shape control strategy is put forward by this essay, which is verified on a 1750mm hot tandem mill, the result show its practicability to improve product’s shape quality.

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Active Stiffener Concept for Shape Control of Two Dimensional Structures

Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems ◽

10.1115/imece2002-39001 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Philen ◽

Kon-Well Wang

Keyword(s):

Piezoelectric Ceramic ◽

Shape Control ◽

Electromechanical Coupling ◽

Element Model ◽

Optimal Placement ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Plate Structure ◽

Transmitted Force ◽

Host Structure ◽

Multiple Actuators

A substantial amount of research exists concerning shape and vibration control of structures with attached piezoelectric ceramic sheet actuators. Researchers have investigated the optimal placement, size, and electrode pattern of these piezoceramic actuators to maximize the performance of the system. In many situations, the performance could be further improved with tailoring of the electromechanical properties of the actuator. For example, it was found that to avoid exciting higher order modes, the ideal actuator would be one that only actuates in one direction when controlling certain modes in a two-dimensional plate structure [1]. As known, the 31 and 32 electromechanical coupling values of a piezoelectric ceramic patch poled in the 3 direction is equal. Therefore to achieve decoupling of the actuator action in the 31 and 32 directions, a mechanism is required. In this paper, an active stiffener concept is proposed to realize such an effect where a stiffener is inserted between a host structure and the piezoelectric ceramic actuator patch. Using a solid finite element model, an analysis of a single active stiffener attached to a rigid and a flexible host structure is presented. In the analysis, the effects of various material and system parameters on the transmitted force to the structure are presented. It is seen that the active stiffener can significantly reduce the transmitted force in the selected direction. The performance of the active stiffener concept with multiple actuators is presented for controlling the shape of a large flexible circular plate structure.

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