Presenting unified coverage of the design and modeling of smart micro-and macrosystems,
this book addresses fabrication issues and outlines the challenges faced by engineers …

Piezoelectric fans are very low power, small, very low noise, solid-state devices that have
recently emerged as viable thermal management solutions for a variety of portable …

Periodic structures have an important role to play in the reduction of vibration within a
targeted frequency range. Much of the literature concerning vibrations in periodic structures …

The paper presents a practical robust controller design methodology based on recent
theoretical results on minimax LQG control. This controller design methodology is illustrated …

Piezoelectrically excited, resonant, elastic beams find wide use as piezoelectric fans, optical
choppers, MEMS sensors, and piezoelectric motors. The devices consist of either one …

The use of a periodic structure is an useful alternative for suppressing vibrations without
requiring strategies of active control. The main characteristic of this type of strategy is to …

A piezoelectric fan (piezofan) which couples a piezoelectric unimorph to an attached flexible
blade is able to produce a large deflection especially at resonance. The fundamental …

This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study of the active vibration control of a
simply supported beam using a piezoelectric patch actuator and a physically collocated …

The accurate prediction of the dynamic characteristics of a structure is key to successful
vibration control strategies. A typical vibration and wave propagation control is performed …

The problem of controlling the position at the tip of a flexible cantilever beam to follow a
command signal is considered, by using a pair of piezoelectric actuators at the clamped end …