Day 1
- Introduction passive damping: Recap Design principles, Dynamic modelling, Motion control; Definition; Trade off Damping vs. stiffness and Damping vs. virtual play.
- Examples in other application areas: Aviation; Structural buildings; Machine tools.
- Discussion of damping principles: Material damping; TMD, RMD, CLD, FLD; Eddy-current damping; Friction damping.
Day 2
- Material damping: Structural material damping; Viscous fluid damping; LVE material damping.
- Demo / Exercise
- Tuned mass damping: TMD tuning; Case: MRI scanner.
- Constrained layer damping: RKU modelling approach; Case: Flexures and frames.
- Exercise
Day 3
- Constrained layer damping for discontinuous surfaces: Hybrid approach.
- Robust mass damping: Viscous damper design and testing; Case: Semiconductor wafer stage.
- Integral modelling and optimisation: Modeling approach; Optimisation algorithm; Case: Over-actuated wafer chuck.
- Viscoelastic actuator damping: Modeling approach; Case: Semiconductor wafer stage.
- Wrap-up