MSCA IF - PIEZOMACH - Piezoelectric Vibration Absorber for Machining Applications
Goal: The main idea of the PIEZOMACH project is to develop a fully passive nonlinear device for suppressing chatter vibrations in machine tools. These vibrations represent a major concern in industry, as they result, for instance, in waves on the machined surface. This project goes beyond the challenge of dealing with the nonlinear nature of chatter vibrations, to developing a device that can unlock the huge potential of nonlinearity to improve dynamic performance.
More specifically, the linear characteristic of the absorber will be optimized to maximize its stability properties, while its nonlinear characteristic will be designed in order to avoid dangerous bistable behaviors and guarantee robustness. This technique, successfully implemented for the suppression of aeroelastic instabilities, will be adapted to machine tool vibrations, first analytically and then experimentally, paving the way to the industrial exploitation of the obtained results. The vibration absorber will be practically realized utilizing an RLC resonant circuit coupled to the mechanical structure through a piezoelectric patch.
Date: 1 October 2016 - 30 September 2018
Project log
- Aug 2015
- ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
- Jan 2017
- IMAC Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics