Simultaneous active vibration control and health monitoring of structures. Experimental results

Abstract

The paper reports some results of a research project having as object the development of astructural health monitoring strategy in which the monitoring process is doubled by an activevibration control process, hereby resulting a longer operation time of the structure. Hardware andcontroller issues of impedance-based structural health monitoring and active control, both based onpiezoelectric sensors-actuators, are summarized.