GUANZIROLI F.

Vibration attenuation by means of tuned mass dampers is a common practice in engineering since many years. Usually, their dynamic features are chosen so that a tuning on the modal characteristics of the system to control is achieved. Although such components can be very effective in reducing vibrations, they suffer of some drawbacks. The main...

Tuned mass dampers have long since been used to attenuate vibrations. The need to make them adaptive in order to function even after changes of the dynamic characteristics of the system to be controlled has led to using many different technologies with the aim of improving adaptation performances. Shape memory alloys have already been proven to...