Institute of Physics Publishing Smart Materials and Structures Reducing the Inductance Requirements of Piezoelectric Shunt Damping Systems

Structural vibration can be reduced by shunting an attached piezoelectric transducer (PZT) with an electrical impedance. Current shunt circuit designs, e.g. a single-mode inductor–resistor network, typically require large inductance values of up to thousands of henries. In practice, discrete inductors are limited in size to around 1 H. By placing an additional capacitance across the terminals of the PZT, shunt circuit inductances can be drastically reduced. To justify our claims, we present a theoretical analysis of the damped system and identify the influence of the additional capacitance. Two modes of a simply supported beam are successfully damped using a capacitance modified shunt circuit. A low inductance multi-mode circuit is also studied and experimentally verified.

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