The nonlocal nonlinear buckling of a double layer graphene sheet (DLGS) covered by zinc oxide (ZnO) piezoelectric layers is investigated in this study. The surrounding circumstances of the system are considered as a Pasternak foundation including spring constants and a shear layer. Graphene sheets are subjected to longitudinal magnetic field and biaxial forces. On the other hand, the ZnO piezoe...

In this article fluid-structure interaction of vibrating composite piezoelectric plates is investigated. Since the plate is assumed to be moderately thick, rotary inertia effects and transverse shear deformation effects are deliberated by applying exponential shear deformation theory. Fluid velocity potential is acquired using the Laplace equation, and fluid boundary conditions and wet dynamic ...

Piezoelectric nanomaterials (PNs) are attractive for applications including sensing, actuating, energy harvesting, among others in nano-electro-mechanical-systems (NEMS) because of their excellent electromechanical coupling, mechanical and physical properties. However, the properties of PNs do not coincide with their bulk counterparts and depend on the particular size. A large amount of efforts...

This paper examines in detail the characteristics of a leaky Lamb wave propagating in a piezoelectric plate immersed in a dielectric or conductive fluid. The analysis is based on the partial wave analysis and its numerical calculations. Some corrections have been made so that both the changes in phase velocity and the wave attenuation of leaky Lamb waves caused by fluid’s mechanical, dielectric...

Abstract Piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENG) with flexible and simple design have pronounced significance in fabricating sustainable devices for self-powering electronics. This study demonstrates the fabrication of electrospun nanocomposite fibers from polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) filled zinc oxide (ZnO)/iron (FeO) nanomaterials. The fiber based PENG shows piezoelectric output voltage 5.9 V w...

The effect of mechanical stimulation of vibration on proliferation of cells has been studied in vitro. To apply the vibration on the cells, a piezoelectric element was attached on the outside surface of the bottom of the culture plate of six wells. The piezoelectric element was vibrated by sinusoidal alternating voltage at 1.0 MHz generated by a function generator. Three kinds of cells were use...

This paper presents an efficient meshless method for analyzing cracked piezoelectric structures subjected to mechanical and electrical loading. In this method, an element free Galerkin (EFG) formulation, an enriched basic function and some special shape functions that contain discontinuous derivatives are employed. Based on the moving least squares (MLS) interpolation approach, the EFG method i...

The possibility to generate acoustic modes based on FPWs (Flexural Plate Waves) in a generic non-piezoelectric substrate for microfludic applications by means of piezoelectric actuators has been explored and described in this paper. The FPW acoustic modes are generated by means of actuators made of Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) layers with InterDigital Transducers (IDTs) screen-printed on alumi...

The problem of shape control and correction of small displacements in composite structures using piezoelectric actuators glued or embedded was addressed. A finite element model based on Mindlin plate theory was used to characterize the behaviour of the structure and the one of the actuators. Emphasis was put on the development of an efficient and general methodology, based on genetic algorithms...

Corrosion is a major safety and economic concern to various industries. In this paper, a novel ultrasonic guided wave tomography (GWT) system based on self-designed piezoelectric sensors is presented for on-line corrosion monitoring of large plate-like structures. Accurate thickness reconstruction of corrosion damages is achieved by using the dispersive regimes of selected guided waves and a re...