Ming Yuan

By Ming Yuan and Fan Yang

In this chapter, effective low frequency noise insulation adopting active damping approaches are illustrated. In general, engineering plate structures suffer insufficient noise insulation performance in the low frequency band. To improve the structure’s noise insulation performance, active damping methods can be utilized, which aim to suppress plate structure’s efficient sound radiation modes. The collocated sensor/actuator configuration guarantees the control system’s robustness, and simplifies the control law design. In the presented study, two control laws are proposed to add active damping to the structure. One control law is negative acceleration feedback (NAF) control and the other control law is filtered velocity feedback (FVF) control. The NAF control is suitable to control one specific mode and the FVF control is suitable to realize wide band vibration control. With respect to practical implementation, a carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) plate is served as the control target and active control laws are implemented on it. Experimental system for active control is presented in detail, and some practical advises are given to help readers to solve similar problems in a convenient way. The measured sound pressure and vibration results show effectiveness of the active damping treatment.

Part of the book: Noise and Vibration Control