Damping of vibrations is often required to improve both the performance and the integrity of engineering structures, for example,\r\ngas turbine blades. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using piezoelectric plates to control the multimode vibrations of a\r\ncantilever beam. To develop an effective control strategy and optimize the placement of the active piezoelectric elements in terms\r\nof vibrations amplitude reduction, a procedure has been developed and a new analytical solution has been proposed.The results\r\nobtained have been corroborated by comparison with the results from a multiphysics finite elements package (COMSOL), results\r\navailable in the literature, and experimental investigations carried out by the authors.
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