In the present paper, a review on piezoelectric sensing of mechanical deformations and vibrations of so-called smart or intelligent structures is given. After a short introduction into piezoelectric sensing and actuation of such controlled structures, we pay special emphasis on the description of some own work, which has been performed at the Institute of Technical Mechanics of the Johannes Kep...

In this article, the design of rectangular symmetric bimorph piezoelectric ceramic transducers with loose and fixed edges and with parallel electric excitation is studied. Rectangular piezoelectric ceramic transducers in cosinusoidal flexural vibration with straight and parallel nodal lines of vibration are studied. The radiation of the transducer in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the ...

this deals with the harmonic forced vibration of a circular plate surface bonded by two piezoelectric layers, based on the kirchhoff plate model. the form of electric potential field in the piezoelectric layer is assumed such that the maxwell static electricity equation is satisfied. the differential equations of motion are solved analytically for clamped edge boundary condition of the plate. t...

Hertzian, dry, pointlike contacts are used to couple ultrasonic energy efficiently to plate wave modes in anisotropic solid plates. A new transducer configuration using a piezoelectric PZT-5H transducer and a quartz buffer rod is realized for this purpose. In particular, the lowest order antisymmetric Lamb wave (A0) mode is excited and detected in anisotropic plates at a frequency of 200 kHz an...

In this paper we consider the problem of homogenization of equations describing linear thin plates excited by actuators made of piezoelectric ceramics (see e.g. 1]). It is assumed that the number of actuators goes to innnity whereas their dimension tends to zero. The procedure of homogenization is based on the theory of two-scale convergence studied in 2]. The speciic of the problem considered ...

Lower dimensional models of shells are preferred in numerical computations to threedimensional models when the thickness of the shells is “very small”. A lot of work has been done on the lower dimensional approximation of boundary value and eigenvalue problem for elastic plates and shells (cf.[2], [3] [4], [5], [6], [8],[9]). Recently some work has been done on the lower dimensional approximati...

Analysis of piezoelectric transducers is often based on one-dimensional methods such as equivalent circuits and transmission line models. This implies that the vibrational pattern is presumed rather than found by the analysis. The presumptions are valid only for simple geometries such as thin plates. The finite element method can determine the nature of the vibrations and is applicable to any g...

We report a novel rotary piezoelectric motor using bending transducers in this work. Three transducers are used to drive a disk-shaped rotor together by the elliptical movements of their driving tips; these motions are produced by the hybrid of two first bending vibration modes. The proposed piezoelectric transducer has a simple structure as it only contains an aluminum alloy beam and four piec...

Piezoelectric bimorph actuation has been successfully used in numerous types of microdevices, most notably micropumps. However, even for the simple case of circular geometry, analytical treatments are severely limited. This study utilized the finite-element method to optimize the deflection of a circular bimorph consisting of a single piezoelectric actuator, bonding material and elastic plate o...