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Optimal placement of distributed actuators for a controlled smart elastic plate
Author(s) -
Seeger F.,
Gabbert U.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200310116
Subject(s) - benchmark (surveying) , actuator , wafer , computer science , smart material , piezoelectricity , engineering , materials science , electrical engineering , artificial intelligence , nanotechnology , geology , geodesy
The performance and the efficiency of smart structures controlled by piezoelectric wafers decisively depend on the locations of the actuators and sensors. For the evaluation and testing of time consuming numerical optimisation techniques, which are currently a part of our research, benchmark examples are required. As such a benchmark example a simply supported plate structure is inverstigated, where the active controlled behaviour can still be described analytically. In the paper the optimisation algorithm is briefly described and the results of a typical example are presented.