1995 年 61 巻 586 号 p. 2259-2266
This paper presents a method for optimizing vibration absorbers on a flexible beam by means of a neural network procedure. Analytical results for the response of the beam with multi-absorbers have been obtained using a transfer matrix method. To achieve optimal control, a cost function composed of second-order nonlinear forms in terms of the displacement, strain, and frequencies was used. A method of minimizing the function was presented, in which input values, weights and output function were effectively controlled on the basis of the back-propagation procedure of the neural network method. Numerical calculations were carried out for an example problem. It is ascertained that the present method gives a better result than that obtained by the previously published method. The validity of the method and the analytical results was confirmed by experimental tests.