Actuators and Dampers for Vibration Control: Damping and Isolation Applications
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 27242
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vibration control; mainly focused on civil engineering and robotics applications
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Interests: control of vibrations caused by human activities on civil engineering structures
Interests: precision mechatronics and robotics; control of dynamical systems; vibration damping and isolation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mitigating vibration-induced system performance limitations has been an active area of research impacting several scientific and technological fields. Unwanted vibrations arise from several inherent and exogenous sources and severely limit performance in a wide range of systems, such as precision robots, high-sensitivity measuring devices, high-density storage devices, micro- and nanoscale machining, structural integrity, and human comfort in civil structures, as well as several aerospace and defense applications. Strategies to mitigate these unwanted vibration-related issues can be broadly grouped into two categories: (i) vibration damping and (ii) vibration isolation. Each of these categories can be further divided into two classes: (i) passive and (ii) active. Practical implementation of these strategies has resulted in significant research interest in the development of actuators and dampers. This Special Issue is focused on highlighting current developments in this area.
Contributions from all the fields related to actuators and dampers are welcome to this Special Issue. Of particular interest are:
- Passive, semiactive, and active actuators used in damping and isolation applications;
- Practical implementation issues of actuators in damping and isolation applications;
- Optimization of isolation and damping vibration systems;
- Vibration control in civil structures induced by wind, earthquakes, and humans;
- Trajectory tracking in nanopositioners applications;
- Robotics applications with flexibility in links or joints;
- Vibration isolation in aerospace and defense applications;
- Vibration isolation in extremely low vibration level applications.
Dr. Emiliano Pereira González
Prof. Dr. Paul Reynolds
Dr. Sumeet S. Aphale
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vibration damping
- vibration isolation
- precise positioning
- trajectory tracking
- alignment
- inertial mass actuators
- tuned mass damper
- tuned liquid damper
- electromagnetic damper
- optimal design
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