Theoretical and Experimental Study of Active Vibration Control of a Cylindrical Shell Using Piezoelectric Disks

Active vibration control of a cylindrical shell using piezoelectric disks is studied both theoretically and experimentally in this paper. Hamilton's principle is used for deriving dynamic motion equations of the cylinder coupled with piezoelectric disks. The equations are discretised by Rayleigh-Ritz method. An adaptive feedforward controller based on steepest descent method is implemented on a PC to control the modal vibration. The proposed method solves the drawback of using PCs that is sending and receiving data in block form. It is shown that the proposed control system which consists of piezoelectric disks and an adaptive controller is effective in reducing vibration and radiated acoustic noise.