J. Sladek1, V. Sladek1, Ch. Zhang2, F. Garcia-Sanche3, M. Wünsche2
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 109-118, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2006.004.109
Abstract Piezoelectric materials have wide range engineering applications in smart structures and devices. They have usually anisotropic properties. Except this complication electric and mechanical fields are coupled each other and the governing equations are much more complex than that in the classical elasticity. Thus, efficient computational methods to solve the boundary or the initial-boundary value problems for piezoelectric solids are required. In this paper, the Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method with a Heaviside step function as the test functions is applied to solve two-dimensional (2-D) piezoelectric problems. The mechanical fields are described by the equations of motion with an inertial term.… More >
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