Abstract In this paper a broadband active shunt technique for controlling vibration in piezoelectric laminated structures is proposed. The effect of the negative capacitance controller is studied theoretically and then validated experimentally on a piezoelectric laminated simply supported plate. The ‘negative capacitance controller’ is similar in nature to passive shunt damping techniques, as a...

Parallel-plate capacitors based on ferroelectric thin films are considered as high density capacitors and varactors. Due to the small thickness of the ferroelectric films, typically less than 1.0 μm, high electric fields are generated even at relatively low voltages inducing piezoelectric effect associated with electrostriction. This induced piezoelectric effect has negative impact on ferroelec...

This thesis is concerned with an investigation of the control of responses of plate structures with piezoelectric layers and under complicated excitations modeled as a non-stationary random process. The plate structures and piezoelectric layers are both discretized by the mixed formulation finite element method (FEM). The investigation consists of three parts. The first part is a literature sur...

A system is described that uses force-plate-mounted piezoelectric strain measurement to detect and quantify pedestrian traffic. The system uses distributed piezoelectric sensors in a stiff structural platform and is combined with a sensing and counting circuit. The paper describes the application of this technology for monitoring pedestrian traffic on a municipal trail. The application of the s...

The magnetoelectric response of magnetostrictive/piezoelectric laminate composites has been investigated. Based on the piezoelectric and piezomagnetic constitutive equations, and motion equation for the composite plate, the magnetoelectric equivalent circuit has been derived, and the magnetoelectric coefficients predicted. Prototype devices of, as an application example, Terfenol-D/PZT composit...

Noncontact transportation of small particles around a circular trajectory was investigated. A circular aluminum plate with a piezoelectric ring was employed as a vibrating plate. On the basis of finite element analysis (FEA) calculations, the electrodes of the piezoelectric ring were divided into 24 pieces to generate a flexural vibration mode with one nodal circle and four nodal lines at the r...

In this paper, vibration control is performed by using piezoelectric elements which are one of the smart actuator. An operator-based robust nonlinear control system by using robust right coprime factorization approach and a nonliliner property of hysteresis model is proposed. Considering the hysteresis in the piezoelectric actuator, assuming that an aircraft vertical tail is forced vibration mo...

In this work, we design and simulate a valve less, diaphragm-based, piezoelectric micro pump. The piezoelectric actuator is a PZT-5H piezo-disk, the diaphragm is a borosilicate glass plate. All the simulations were made using COMSOL Multiphysics software. First, the piezoelectric actuator and membrane thicknesses were chosen by means of a stationary simulation, using the piezoelectric devices m...

In this paper we present the results of a systematic theoretical and experimental investigation of the fundamental aspects of using piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWASs) to achieve embedded ultrasonics in thin-gage beam and plate structures. This investigation opens the path for systematic application of PWASs for in situ health monitoring. After a comprehensive review of the literature, w...

Guided wave techniques have great potential for the structural health monitoring of plate-like components. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of combining laserultrasonic techniques with time-frequency representations to experimentally develop the dispersion relationship of a plate; the high fidelity, broad bandwidth and point-like nature of laser ultrasonics are critical for ...