ABSTRACT
Vibration reduction is an important engineering goal in a variety of engineering applications. Today, static and dynamic analysis are not enough for design purposes and numerical simulation programs have to be coupled with optimization codes to perform automated optimal design. This procedure leads to competitive design configurations and guarantees that technological and economical constraints are respected. When mechatronic systems are taken into account, the problem becomes more complex because sensors, actuators and controls have to be considered together with the structure in all design steps.
