Abstract: This paper presents a NASTRAN finite element analysis for evaluation of the effectiveness of viscoelastic damping treatments as passive controls for large flexible space manipulators. The passive ...

Abstract: Recently published results arising from the acoustic noise control research community, demonstrate that system dynamics can be modified using feedforward control. Initial investigations applied to ...

Abstract: Laboratory dynamic testing of large and complex space structures can be difficult and expensive, if practical at all. The use of dynamically scaled test articles is a standard approach to ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simple analysis evaluating the stability threshold for magnetically levitated flexible structures using dissipative colocated controllers. It is shown that with such a control ...