The operation of a piezo inkjet printhead involves a chain of processes in many physical
domains at different length scales. The final goal is the formation of droplets of all kinds of …

This book is a companion text to Active Control of Sound by PA Nelson and SJ Elliott, also
published by Academic Press. It summarizes the principles underlying active vibration …

Shell-like structures are used in various engineering applications including civil, aerospace,
mechanical, marine, and automotive engineering. This article reviews most of the recent …

These lectures are an outgrowth of recent research in the area of control theory for systems
governed by coupled partial differential equations (PDEs). While mathematical control …

Motivated by problems arising in the pneumatic actuation of controllers for micro-
electromechanical systems, labs-on-a-chip or biomimetic soft robots, and the study of …

Elastic waves, especially guided waves, generated by a piezoelectric actuator/sensor
network, have shown great potential for on-line health monitoring of advanced aerospace …

The problem of exponential stabilization of a nonuniform Timoshenko beam with locally
distributed controls is investigated. Without the assumption of different wave speeds, it is …

The effectiveness of the active constrained layer dam** (ACLD) treatments in enhancing
the dam** characteristics of thin cylindrical shells is presented. A finite element model …

We derive the algebraic Riccati equation associated with the infinite dimensional linear
quadratic stochastic optimal control problem on an infinite horizon, for stochastic control …

We consider damped second order in time systems such as those arising in structures with
piezoceramic actuators and sensors. These systems are naturally formulated as abstract …