Broadband Vibration Control Through Periodic Arrays of Resonant Shunts: Experimental Investigation on Plates

In this work, a periodic 4 × 4 lay-out of resistive inductive (RL) shunted piezoelectric transducer (PZT) patches is designed and applied to achieve broadband vibration reduction of a flexible isotropic plate over tunable frequency bands. Each surface-bonded PZT patch is connected to a single independent RL circuit and all shunt circuits are tuned at the same frequency. A finite element-based design methodology is used to predict the attenuation properties of the unit cell that characterize the periodic assembly. The predictions are experimentally validated by measuring the spatial average harmonic response of the plate. Significant broadband attenuation is obtained over frequency bands centered at the resonance frequency of the shunting circuit.