Vijay Kumar Gupta

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.20, No.2, pp. 55-56, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.020.055

Abstract Various applications of piezoelectric actuators have been explored over the years. One such application is use of piezoelectric actuators for shape control of structures. In this paper, steering of parabolic antenna by deforming the antenna surface using piezoelectric actuators has been explored. Optimization based on Genetic Algorithm is carried out to find out optimum location, length and applied electric field to the piezoelectric actuators to achieve desired steering of antenna. Constraints are included in the objective function using penalty approach. Shell finite element model is used to determine deformations induced by the actuators. As the wavelength is sufficiently smaller than… More >

Bo Mi Lee, In-Ho Kim, Hyung-Jo Jung

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.19, No.1, pp. 19-20, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.019.019

Abstract Vibration energy harvesting, which converts ambient vibration energy into electrical energy, has been an attractive energy scavenging technique to power wireless sensors or low power devices. Even though vibration energy harvesting has drawbacks which are relatively low harvested power and narrow bandwidth, vibration energy scavenging is one of the promising alternative power techniques in that MEMS techniques can be applied to microminiaturize the system. Therefore, many researches have been done to overcome these problems(Lee et al.2010). This paper presents improvement efficiency on piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting device to surmount issues of vibration energy harvesting. Numerical simulation and experimental test are… More >

S.V. Plotnikova¹, M.G. Kulikov¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 49-52, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.011.049

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Alaimo A.¹, Milazzo A.¹, Orlando C.¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 9-16, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.011.009

Abstract The main target of the present paper is the analysis of the fracture mechanics behavior of delaminated composite structures actively repaired through piezoelectric patches. The aim at issue has been achieved by using a boundary element code implemented to study piezoelectric solids, including, as limiting case, the applicability to linear elastic anisotropic materials. The assembled structures, made up of the damaged composite components and the piezoelectric patches, have been modeled through the multidomain technique. To take into account for the adhesive layer among the host structure and the active patch, an interface spring-model has been also implemented. The multidomain technique… More >

Milazzo A.¹, aimo A.¹, Benedetti I.¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.6, No.3, pp. 151-156, 2008, DOI:10.3970/icces.2008.006.151

Abstract The effect of the finite stiffness bonding between the piezoelectric plies of bimorph devices has been investigated. A boundary integral formulation for piezoelasticity, based on a multidomain technique with imperfect interface conditions, has been developed. The imperfect interface conditions between the piezoelectric layers are described in terms of linear relations between the interface tractions, in normal and tangential directions, and the respective discontinuity in displacements. Continuity of the electric potential at the interface is also assumed and an iterative procedure is implemented to avoid interface interference. Numerical analysis has been performed on bimorph configurations with series arrangement and the influence… More >

Jan Sladek¹, Vladimir Sladek¹ and Choon-Lai Tan²

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 109-111, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05685

Abstract In recent years, a special attention has been directed to the investigation of the relations between the macroscopic material behaviour and its microstructure. For most of the analyses of composite structures, effective or homogenized material properties are used, instead of taking into account the individual component properties and geometrical arrangements. The effective properties are usually difficult or expensive to measure and in the design stage the composition may vary substantially, making frequent measurements prohibitive. Hence a lot of effort has been devoted into the development of mathematical and numerical models to derive homogenized material properties directly from those of the… More >

Qiang Ma^1,*, Junzhi Cui², Xue Jang³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 108-108, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.04487

Abstract A new second-order two-scale (SOTS) asymptotic coupled piezoelectric models are developed for the axisymmetric composites. The governing piezoelectric equations are compactly formulated in cylindrical coordinates, and the composite domains are assumed to be periodically occupied by the representative cells. The multi-scale asymptotic expansions for the displacement and the electric potential are formally defined and the effective elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric coefficients are expressed in terms of the microscopic functions defined on the cell domain. Particularly, the cell solutions and the homogenized solutions for the plane axisymmetric problem are derived analytically. The corresponding SOTS finite element procedure is proposed, in which… More >

Cristiano Ubessi¹, Federico C. Buroni^2,*, Gabriel Hattori³, Andrés Sáez⁴, Rogério J. Marczak¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 104-104, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05420

Abstract Efficient three-dimensional infinite Green’s function and its first- and second-order derivatives for materials with piezoelectric coupling are studied in this paper. The procedure is based on an explicit solution recently introduced by the authors which presents three valuable characteristics: (i) it is explicit in terms of the Stroh’s eigenvalues, (ii) it remains well-defined when some Stroh’s eigenvalues are repeated (mathematical degeneracy) or nearly equal (quasi-mathematical degeneracy), and (iii) it is exact. Then, this solution is used to compute coefficients for a double Fourier series representation of the Green’s function and its derivatives. These Fourier expansion representations are realvariable which is… More >

Harald Berger¹, Ulrich Gabbert², Reinaldo Rodriguez-Ramos³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.9, No.2, pp. 127-129, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.009.127

Abstract Piezoelectric materials have the property of converting electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa. This reciprocity in the energy conversion makes piezoelectric ceramics very attractive for use as sensors and actuators. By combining piezoelectric fibers with passive non-piezoelectric polymer composites with superior properties can be created. But for design of such smart micro-macro structures homogenization techniques are necessary to describe the overall behavior of piezocomposites expressed by effective material coefficients.
A number o fnumerical and analytical methods have been developed to estimate the effective coefficients. Although analytical homogenization methods provide excellent results it is difficult to extend them to… More >

X. Han¹, H. Ding^∗2, G. R. Liu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.9, No.1, pp. 49-56, 2005, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2005.009.049

Abstract An analytical-numerical method is presented for analyzing dispersion and characteristic surface of waves in a hybrid multilayered piezoelectric plate. In this method, the multilayered piezoelectric plate is divided into a number of layered elements with three-nodal-lines in the wall thickness, the coupling between the elastic field and the electric field is considered in each element. The associated frequency dispersion equation is developed and the phase velocity and slowness, as well as the group velocity and slowness are established in terms of the Rayleigh quotient. Six characteristic wave surfaces are introduced to visualize the effects of anisotropy and piezoelectricity on wave… More >