Papers by Keyword: Dynamic Shape Control

Abstract: The auxetic lattices are structures, which have the negative Poisson’s ratio. When material has negative Poisson’s ratio, has also auxetic properties - during process of stretching, are made wider and during compressing are made narrower. This structures are cellular and negative Poisson’s ratio is depending on the geometry of single auxetic cell. When geometry of the cell is slightly changed also Poisson’s ratio is different. Auxetics have attracted attention of researchers because of their superior dynamic properties. The lattice auxetic structures at one of their natural frequencies exhibit the deformed geometry. It’s can be exploit as resonance to optimization of the power required for the occurrence localized deformations. The dynamic behavior of auxetic and their transmission of the vibration, which is circumscribed by the parameter VTL (Vibration Transmission Loss) will be analyzed in this article.

Abstract: Smart structures, which are equipped with piezoelectric actuators and sensors, and which involve automatic control, represent an important branch of Mechatronics. This paper gives a review over own research on smart structures, which has been performed during the last decade based on the principles of analogy and interdisciplinarity. The latter principles form a research strategy, which seems to be perfectly suited in order to answer the innovation request in Mechatronics, namely to decrease the time-lag between consecutive steps in the scientific development, and to keep fundamental and applied research in close co-operation. We start our report with a short excursion into the history of engineering sciences, in order to demonstrate this time-lag, where we use the history of elastic and piezoelastic plates as an example, and we discuss the notions of analogy and interdisciplinarity as means to systematically decrease the timelag. In our own work, we particularly have used an eigenstrain analogy as guideline. In the light of this analogy, various own works in the following fields are reviewed: Accurate electromechanically modeling; dynamic shape control by piezoelectric actuation and sensing; extension of dynamic shape control to closed loop control and active noise cancellation.