Active Vibration Control of Non-uniform Section Beam

This work presents the dynamics and AVC of a non-uniform FGM beam. The beam is equipped with four layers of piezoelectric sensors/actuators, on different finite elements to see the influence of its location on the dynamics and AVC. In this study, the classical EB theory combined with FEM is applied to a beam dividing it into a finite number of elements. Principle of Hamilton is applied to generate the equation of motion. The structure is modeled analytically then numerically and the simulation results are presented at the end.