Two-Scale Homogenization of Piezoelectric Perforated Structures

Two-scale homogenization of piezoelectric perforated structures

We are interested in the homogenization of elastic-electric coupling equation, with rapidly oscillating coefficients, in periodically perforated piezoelectric body. We justify the two first terms in the usual asymptotic development of the problem solution. For the main convergence results of this paper, we use the notion of two-scale convergence. A two-scale homogenized system is obtained as th...

Homogenization of Thin Piezoelectric Perforated Shells

We rigorously establish the existence of the limit homogeneous constitutive law of a piezoelectric composite made of periodically perforated microstructures and whose reference configuration is a thin shell with fixed thickness. We deal with an extension of the Koiter shell model in which the three curvilinear coordinates of the elastic displacement field and the electric potential are coupled....

Two-Scale Convergence and Homogenization of Periodic Structures

O ct 2 00 7 Preliminary results on the homogenization of thin piezoelectric perforated shells ∗

We consider a composite piezoelectric material whose reference configuration is a thin shell with fixed thickness. In this work, we give a new approach based on the periodic unfolding method to justify the modelling of a thin piezoelectric perforated shells and we establish the limit constitutive law by letting the size of holes is supposed to go to zero. This allows to use the homogenization t...

Homogenization and Two - Scale Convergence *

Following an idea of G. Nguetseng, the author defines a notion of "two-scale" convergence, which is aimed at a better description of sequences of oscillating functions. Bounded sequences in L2(f) are proven to be relatively compact with respect to this new type of convergence. A corrector-type theorem (i.e., which permits, in some cases, replacing a sequence by its "two-scale" limit, up to a st...