Active and passive magnetic constrained damping treatment

This paper has presented a new class of active and passive magnetic constrained layer damping (APMCLD) treatment for controlling vibration of three-layer clamped–clamped beams. Firstly, optimal placement strategies of discrete patches are investigated. The predictions of model are validated experimentally using three-layer clamped–clamped beams treated with fully or segmented passive magnetic constrained layer damping (MCLD) treatments. The results indicate that full MCLD treatment induces less improvement of damping characteristics. Also, the obtained results illustrate that, the improvement of damping performance using two-patched MCLD treatment becomes more apparent at the first mode compared to the corresponding performance using a single-patched MCLD treatment when the total length of damping layer is from 0.3L to 0.65L under considered magnetic force. Further, damping performances of APMCLD using several control strategies including simple PD controllers are investigated. The analytical results show that it induces less improvement of damping characteristics for higher modes using simple positive proportional feedback controllers whereas higher modes can been suppressed effectively using negative derivative feedback controllers. For broad band control of structural vibration, it is more effective using APMCLD treatments with combined proportional and derivative controllers. Moreover, the MCLD treatment still plays an important role in damping out structural vibrations even though active control systems fail.