This thesis represents the work that has been done by the author in the area of vibration analysis and control of smart structures during his PhD candidature. The research was concentrated on flexible structures, using piezoelectric materials as actuators and sensors. The thesis consists of four major parts. The first part (Chapter 2) is the modelling of piezoelectric laminate structures using modal analysis and finite element methods. The second part (Chapter 4) involves the model correction of pointwise and spatial models of resonant systems. The model correction solution compensates for the errors associated with the truncation of high frequency modes. The third part (Chapter 5) is the optimal placement methodology for general actuators and sensors. In particular, optimal placement of piezoelectric actuators and sensors over a thin plate are considered and implemented in the laboratory. The last part (Chapters 6 to 8) deals with vibration control of smart structures. Several different approaches for vibration control are considered. Vibration control using resonant, spatial H-2 and H-infinity control is proposed and implemented on real systems experimentally. It is possible, for certain modes, to obtain the very satisfactory result of up to 30 dB vibration reduction. / PhD Doctorate

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-05-30T13:29:28Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Tese Filipe Andrade.pdf: 827988 bytes, checksum: 2b48a1cdaad11619e56c67a685d04671 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-30T13:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Tese Filipe Andrade.pdf: 827988 bytes, checksum: 2b48a1cdaad11619e56c67a685d04671 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-15 / CNPQ / Nesse trabalho estaremos interessados em estudar propriedades relacionadas as soluções brandas para certos tipos de equações de evoluções. Dentre tais propriedades estudamos a existência de tais soluções assim como questões de periodicidade, para o problema de Cauchy abstrato com retardo dependendo do estado e para o problema com semigrupo exponencialmente estável. E para a equação que modela a dinâmica das estruturas flexíveis, esturademos a propriedade de Kneser. / In the present study, we focused on properties related to mild solutions to certain types of evolution equations. Among such properties, we studied the existence of these solutions as well as periodicity problems to the abstract Cauchy problem with state dependent delay and to the hyperbolic semigroup problem. In addition, for the equation that models the dynamic of flexible structures we studied the Kneser property.