Control laws for an active tunable vibration absorber designed for rotor blade damping augmentation

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1079, 2004, Pages 35-42

  Nitzsche, F ^a   Zimcik, D G ^b   Wickramasinghe, V K ^b   Yong, C ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AERODYNAMICS; AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DAMPING; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

BLADE VORTEX INTERACTION (BVI); TUNABLE VIBRATION ABSORBERS (TVA);

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 1242306809     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000004978     Document Type: Article

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