Vibration Control Systems Utilizing Smart Materials Actuators

Recently, considerable attention has been focused on vibration control technology using smart or intelligent materials, which have inherently actuating and sensing capabilities. Typically these materials are employed to the vibration control of lumped parameter systems or distributed parameter structures by controlling the mass-distribution, stiffness change and the dissipation change. This may be accomplished by semi-active control or active control methods associated with the smart material actuators. Among many candidates of smart materials, magneto-rheological materials and piezoelectric materials are frequently adopted for vibration control. Magneto-rheological fluid and elastomer are especially utilized for vibration control of lumped parameter systems such as automotive damper, while the piezoelectric materials are used for vibration control of flexible distributed parameter structures with salient characteristics, such as fast response time. This book can be used as a textbook for graduate students or as a reference book for potential researchers who are interested in vibration control utilizing new methods associated with smart materials actuators. This book will provide some novel insights for advanced vibration control technology to many readers.

Table of Contents:
Preface; A New High Loaded Magneto-rheological Mount with Three Operation Modes for Vibration Control of a Ship Engine; A Review of Magneto-rheological Dampers Utilized in Vibration Control System; Magneto-rheological Elastomers-Based Systems for Vibration Control; Protecting Buildings from Seismic Events Using Stiffness Softening MRE Isolators; A State-of-Art on Vibration Damping & Control; Active Control of Structural Vibration Using Piezoelectric Materials; Piezoelectric Shunt Damping Techniques for Vibration & Noise Reduction; An Active Vibration Control of Structures Using Piezoelectric Actuators & Sensors; Index.

About the Author :
Professor Seung-Bok Choi received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Inha University, South Korea, 1979. He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees from the Michigan State University, U.S.A in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a Distinguished Inha Fellow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Inha University, Incheon, South Korea. His research interests are control applications using smart materials such as electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, piezoelectric materials and shape memory alloys. He has published more than 410 refereed international journal papers and two books in the area of smart materials and their applications; Piezoelectric Actuators : Control Applications of Smart Materials(ISBN : 978-1-4398-1808-4) , April 2010, Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press and Magnetorheological Fluid Technology : Applications in Vehicle Systems (ISBN : 978-1-4398-5673-4) , November 2012, Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press. He has also served as program committee and co-chairman for many international conferences including the SPIE Smart Structures Conference and the International Conference on ER Suspension and MR Fluid.