Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 1 (of 4), Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, 14 - 16 December 1994, vol.2, pp.1244-1245
A strategy for confining the vibrations in parts of a flexible structure is proposed. Distributed feedback forces are used to convert the mode shapes to exponentially decaying functions. It is shown that incorporating a suitable time delay results in feasible control efforts.