Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Control Of Responses Of Smart Plate Structures Under Non-Stationary Random Excitations, Xiaojian Yang
Control Of Responses Of Smart Plate Structures Under Non-Stationary Random Excitations, Xiaojian Yang
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis is concerned with an investigation of the control of responses of plate structures with piezoelectric layers and under complicated excitations modeled as a non-stationary random process. The plate structures and piezoelectric layers are both discretized by the mixed formulation finite element method (FEM).
The investigation consists of three parts. The first part is a literature survey and theoretical development. The second part is the eigenvalue solution and computation of uncontrolled response statistics of laminated plate structures under nonstationary random excitations. The final part is the introduction and application of the stochastic central difference (SCD) method that was presented …