An integrated distributed actuator design is presented, based on the converse piezoelectric effect and aimed at actively controlling the excessive deflections and large bending mo ments at the root section of a cantilevered thin-walled beam carrying a system of heavy concentrated masses. The numerical illustrations reveal the great capabilities of the adaptive technology to alleviate, without weight penalties, these undesirable effects.
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