A pair of piezo-based rotating inertial actuators for active structural acoustic control of rotating machinery

In this paper, two Piezo-Based Rotating Inertial Actuators (PBRIAs) are considered for the suppression of the structure-borne noise radiated from rotating machinery. As add-on devices, they can be directly mounted on a rotational shaft, in order to intervene as early as possible in the transfer path between disturbance and the noise radiators. A MIMO form of the modified FxLMS control algorithm is employed to generate the appropriate actuation signals, relying on a linear interpolation scheme to approximate the nonlinear secondary plants. The proposed active vibration control approach is tested on an experimental test bed comprising a rotating shaft mounted in a frame to which a noise-radiating plate is attached. The disturbance force is introduced by an electrodynamic shaker. The experimental results show that when the shaft rotates below 180 rpm, more than a 7 dB reduction can be achieved in terms of plate vibrations, along with a reduction in the same order of magnitude in terms of noise radiation.

Publication year:2014