Active control of flexible cylinders undergoing vortex-induced vibrations using piezo stripe actuators
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
1-1-2019
Abstract
In this study, piezo stripe actuators were used to control the vibrations of a flexible cylinder undergoing underwater flow-induced vibrations. The piezo actuators were attached at the anti-nodes of a rectangular plastic beam and urethane rubber was used to mold the test model to have a circular cylinder shape. Forced base oscillation experiments were first carried out in air to characterize the system and piezo responses. Experiments were then performed in a recirculating water channel with the flexible cylinder in a uniform free stream, where the cylinder undergoes self-excitation due to vortex shedding in the wake and forced excitation due to the piezo actuators. The actuators were oriented to apply an excitation only in the in-line direction of the flow. In the tests, two separate cases were investigated. In the first case, the piezo actuators were activated at a flow speed corresponding to a flow-induced response with a spatial mode change, causing the cylinder to be excited with a higher mode, leading to a significantly smaller amplitude response than without the piezo actuation (vibration suppression). In the second case, piezo actuators were activated at a flow speed corresponding to a significant flow-induced amplitude increase. The interaction of the piezo forcing and the forced response of the cylinder results in a jump to the higher amplitude response regime (vibration enhancement). This study presents two important observations: (1) it is possible that piezo actuators can trip the response frequency to force the cylinder to oscillate with a different mode thus reducing the total response amplitude significantly, (2) it is also possible to prematurely increase the response amplitude for a particular flow speed (i.e. jumping from a lower branch to upper branch response).
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
Volume
6
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Gedikli, Ersegun D., David Chelidze, and Jason Dahl. "Active control of flexible cylinders undergoing vortex-induced vibrations using piezo stripe actuators." Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series 6, (2019): 63-65. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74476-6_9.