Abstract:To enhance the vibration control bandwidth of active-passive hybrid piezoelectric network (APPN), a kind of piezoelectric hybrid constrained layer damping (PHCLD), which combined the advantages of the APPN and passive constrained layer damping, was presented to control the vibrations of cantilever beams. Complex shear modulus was used to characterize the dynamic behavior of viscoelastic material, and Hamilton′s principle with Raleigh-Ritz method was employed to establish the dynamic model of the cantilever beams with PHCLD treatments. On this basis, the velocity feedback control strategy was used to design the active controller, and numerical simulations were performed to analyze the open-loop and closed-loop characteristics of the beam/PHCLD system. Analysis results indicate that the PHCLD has better vibration control performance and wider vibration control bandwidth as compared with the APPN. Furthermore, this PHCLD treatment could be easily extended to control the vibrations of other kinds of structures.