Buckling suppression of a cantilever structure with a modified fuzzy sliding mode control

Jianhua Pan1, Lin Sun2, Xiaopei Liu3

  • 1School of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Liaoning Petrochemical University, Fushun, 113001, China.

Scientific Reports
|February 8, 2025
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