Abstract
In this paper, the design, simulations, and experimental results related to new analog circuits for voltage controlled synthetic inductors (VCSI) are presented. The new circuits based on a generalized impedance converter (GIC) are proposed for adaptive resonant piezoelectric shunt damping. The VCSIs are implemented using (1) an analog multiplier and (2) an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) as voltage-controlled resistor. The simulation and experimental results for the new proposed VCSIs are presented and a comparative analysis follows. The proposed VCSIs work in a stable manner in parallel with negative impedance converters (NIC) to enhance structural damping in resonant piezoelectric resistive-inductive shunt applications. The behavior of the synthetic inductor is identical to a real inductor only in a specific frequency range and this situation can explain the reported spreading performance in the literature for resonant piezoelectric shunt damping. The simulation results are validated by a group of experimental investigations that confirm the improved stability and linearity of the new circuits proposed as VCSIs. Experimental results show that the VCSI based on an analog multiplier have an enhanced linearity in comparison with the OTA version in a limited voltage control range.
Highlights
In structural vibration control, piezoelectric materials [1,2] have been used with regularity for a few decades
The ceramic perovskite (Pb[Zrx Ti1−x ]O3, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1) is a piezoelectric material transducer called a PZT patch, which is bonded onto a mechanical structure to obtain a very efficient passive damping technique using an external resonant resistive-inductive circuit known as an RL shunt
A synthetic inductor is based on a generalized impedance converter (GIC), which is well-known as a gyrator [4]
Summary
Piezoelectric materials [1,2] have been used with regularity for a few decades. The ceramic perovskite (Pb[Zrx Ti1−x ]O3 , 0 ≤ x ≤ 1) is a piezoelectric material transducer called a PZT patch, which is bonded onto a mechanical structure to obtain a very efficient passive damping technique using an external resonant resistive-inductive circuit known as an RL shunt. The series and parallel resonant shunts are equivalent in terms of vibration control performance, but the parallel RL shunt is less sensitive to the mistuning of the optimal resistance value. A synthetic inductor is based on a generalized impedance converter (GIC), which is well-known as a gyrator [4]. The gyrator was used instead of a real inductor in the analog circuits era [5] to implement low frequency RC filters
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