Preface | p. IX |
Smart materials and structures | |
New damping technologies for vibration control | p. 3 |
Shaking-table test of a SMA bar | p. 15 |
Model of the vibro-acoustic behaviour of a double panel partition | p. 25 |
Application of a new amplified piezoelectric actuator to semi-active control of vibrations | p. 33 |
About active control of beams: Theory and experiments | p. 45 |
New strategies of active control | |
Identification and active control in transitional regime of a one degree of freedom unknown structure excited by an unknown strength | p. 59 |
A new feedback approach in active noise control: Robust pole placement control | p. 73 |
Comparison between a large bandwidth LQG and modal control methods applied to complex flexible structure | p. 85 |
Fuzzy control of an overhead crane | p. 95 |
Control strategy of fine manipulator with compliance for wafer probing system based on magnetic levitation | p. 109 |
On the feedback stabilization: Komornik's method | p. 119 |
Active isolation systems | |
Elimination of bouncing, weaving, pitching in high speed passenger transit systems | p. 133 |
Stability and nonlinearity of a novel active suspension system | p. 143 |
The actively controlled levitation system of the transrapid | p. 155 |
Global active suspensions for high speed and intercity trains | p. 167 |
Actuators for ANVC in transportation systems | p. 179 |
Active control in rotor dynamics | |
Stabilizing helicopter rotor blades using delayed feedback | p. 191 |
Stabilizing periodic motion of a laboratory installation using delayed feedback | p. 203 |
Active control to improve the air resonance stabilities of modern rotors | p. 213 |
Modelling of multi-bearing rotor systems for vibration analysis and control law synthesis | p. 221 |
Control law synthesis for self-tuning adaptive control of forced vibration in rotor systems | p. 233 |
Active control in civil engineering | |
Decentralized active control of a segment of a cable-stayed bridge subjected to seismic motion | p. 247 |
Control of building structures using estimated states | p. 259 |
Experimental investigation of sensor failure in structural control | p. 273 |
Vibration control | |
Adaptive structures-General concept and railway applications | p. 287 |
Prediction of the dynamic behaviour of a coupled structure using frequency response functions: Problems and considerations for their confrontation | p. 299 |
Analysis of PD control of mechanical systems with dynamic backlash | p. 311 |
Experimental study of dynamic response of structures with gaps excited by random white noise: Flexible impact support | p. 323 |
Discrete and continuum models for nonlinear vibrations of anisotropic structures | p. 335 |
Damping of longitudinal oscillations in rods by tuning elements | p. 347 |
Influence of the drive-line on the vibrational behaviour of a vehicle | p. 353 |
Author index | p. 362 |
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