Parametric excitation of a piezoelectrically actuated system near Hopf bifurcation

This paper deals with investigation into the stability analysis for transverse motions of a cantilever micro-beam, which is axially loaded due to a voltage applied to the piezoelectric layers located on the lower and upper surfaces of the micro-beam. The piezoelectric layers are pinned to the open end of the micro-beam and not bonded to it through its length. Application of the DC and AC piezoelectric actuations creates steady and time varying axial forces. The equation of the motion is derived using variational principal, and discretized using modal expansion theorem. The differential equations of the discretized model are a set of Mathieu type ODEs, whose stability analysis is performed using Floquet theory for multiple degree of freedom systems. Considering first two eigen-functions in the modal expansion theorem leads in the prediction of flutter type of instability as a consequence of Hopf bifurcation, which is not seen in the reduced single degree of freedom system. The object of the present study is to passively control the flutter instability in the proposed model by applying AC voltage with suitable amplitude and frequency to the piezoelectric layers. The effect of various parameters on the stability of the structure, including damping coefficient, amplitude of the DC and AC voltages, and the frequency of the applied AC voltage is studied.     

Pure parametric excitation of a micro cantilever beam actuated by piezoelectric layers

This paper deals with the stability analysis of transverse motions of a cantilever microbeam sandwiched by two piezoelectric layers located on the lower and upper surfaces of the microbeam. Application of same DC and AC voltages to the upper and lower piezoelectric layers creates an axial force with steady and time-varying components. The eigenfunction expansion of the transverse motion equation leads to the creation of a Mathieu type parametric equation which is mostly seen in the stability analysis of the structures in the literature; using Floquet theory for single degree of freedom systems the stable and unstable regions of the problem are investigated. The effect of viscous damping and DC voltage on the stability region of the problem is also studied. The results show the stabilizing effect of the viscous damping and positive DC voltage on the behavior of the microbeam. The achieved results are finally compared with those reported in the literature.     

Study of parametric oscillation of an electrostatically actuated microbeam using variational iteration method

This paper deals with the study of parametric oscillation of an electrostatically actuated microbeam using variational iteration method. The paper considers a micro-beam suspended between two conductive micro-plates, subjected to a same actuation voltage. The nonlinear governing differential equation of motion about static equilibrium position using calculus of variation theory and Taylor series expansion has been linearized and implementing a Galerkin based reduced order model a Mathieu type equation has been obtained. By improving variational iteration method combining with method of strained parameters transition curves, separating stable from unstable regions have been obtained. The results of variational iteration method, perturbation and direct numerical integration methods for some cases selected from different regions (stable and unstable regions) have been compared.     

Numerical investigation into nonlinear dynamic behavior of electrically-actuated clamped–clamped micro-beam with squeeze-film damping effect

A numerical investigation is performed into the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a clamped–clamped micro-beam actuated by a combined DC/AC voltage and subject to a squeeze-film damping effect. An analytical model based on a nonlinear deflection equation and a linearized Reynolds equation is proposed to describe the deflection of the micro-beam under the effects of the electrostatic actuating force. The deflection of the micro-beam is investigated under various actuating conditions by solving the analytical model using a hybrid numerical scheme comprising the differential transformation method and the finite difference approximation method. It is shown that the numerical results for the dynamic pull-in voltage of the clamped–clamped micro-beam deviate by no more than 2.04% from those presented in the literature based on the conventional finite difference scheme. The effects of the AC voltage amplitude, excitation frequency, residual stress, and ambient pressure on the center-point displacement of the micro-beam are systematically explored. Moreover, the actuation conditions which ensure the stability of the micro-beam are identified by means of phase portraits. Overall, the results presented in this study confirm that the hybrid numerical method provides an accurate means of analyzing the complex nonlinear behavior of common electrostatically-actuated microstructures.     

Optimal boundary control of dynamics responses of piezo actuating micro-beams

Optimal control theory is formulated and applied to damp out the vibrations of micro-beams where the control action is implemented using piezoceramic actuators. The use of piezoceramic actuators such as PZT in vibration control is preferable because of their large bandwidth, their mechanical simplicity and their mechanical power to produce controlling forces. The objective function is specified as a weighted quadratic functional of the dynamic responses of the micro-beam which is to be minimized at a specified terminal time using continuous piezoelectric actuators. The expenditure of the control forces is included in the objective function as a penalty term. The optimal control law for the micro-beam is derived using a maximum principle developed by Sloss et al. [J.M. Sloss, J.C. Bruch Jr., I.S. Sadek, S. Adali, Maximum principle for optimal boundary control of vibrating structures with applications to beams, Dynamics and Control: An International Journal 8 (1998) 355–375; J.M. Sloss, I.S. Sadek, J.C. Bruch Jr., S. Adali, Optimal control of structural dynamic systems in one space dimension using a maximum principle, Journal of Vibration and Control 11 (2005) 245–261] for one-dimensional structures where the control functions appear in the boundary conditions in the form of moments. The derived maximum principle involves a Hamiltonian expressed in terms of an adjoint variable as well as admissible control functions. The state and adjoint variables are linked by terminal conditions leading to a boundary-initial-terminal value problem. The explicit solution of the problem is developed for the micro-beam using eigenfunction expansions of the state and adjoint variables. The numerical results are given to assess the effectiveness and the capabilities of piezo actuation by means of moments to damp out the vibration of the micro-beam with a minimum level of voltage applied on the piezo actuators.     

Nonlinear dynamics and stability analysis of piezo-visco medium nanoshell resonator with electrostatic and harmonic actuation

In this paper, nonlinear dynamics, vibration and stability analysis of piezo-visco medium nanoshell resonator (PVM-NSR) based on functionally graded (FG) cylindrical nanoshell integrated with two piezoelectric layers subjected to visco-pasternak medium, electrostatic and harmonic excitations is investigated. Nonclassical method of the electro-elastic Gurtin–Murdoch surface/interface theory with von-Karman–Donnell's shell model as well as Hamilton's principle, the assumed mode method combined with Lagrange–Euler's are considered. Complex averaging method combined with arc-length continuation is used to achieve a numerical solution for the steady state vibrations of the system. The stability analysis of the steady state response is performed. The parametric studies such as the effects of different boundary conditions, different geometric ratios, structural parameters, electrostatic and harmonic excitation on the nonlinear frequency response and stability analysis are studied. The results indicate that near the natural frequency of the nanoshell, it will lead to resonance and will have large motion amplitude and near the resonant frequency, the nanoshell shows a softening type of nonlinear behavior, and the nanoshell bandwidth increases due to nonlinear factors. In this range, nanoshell has three different ranges of motion, of which two are stable and the other unstable, and so the jump phenomenon and saddle-node bifurcation are visible in the behavior of the system. Also piezoelectric voltage influences on static deformation and resonant frequency but has no significant effect on nonlinear behavior and bandwidth and also system very sensitive to the damping coefficient and due to decrease of nano shell stiffness, natural frequency decreases. And also, increasing or decreasing of some parameters lead to increasing or decreasing the resonance amplitude, resonant frequency, the system's instability, nonlinear behavior and bandwidth.     

Analytical bounds for the electromechanical buckling of a compressed nanocantilever

An analytical approach is presented for the accurate definition of lower and upper bounds for the pull-in voltage and tip displacement of a micro- or nanocantilever beam subject to compressive axial load, electrostatic actuation and intermolecular surface forces. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear two-point boundary value problem and has been transformed into an equivalent nonlinear integral equation. Initially, new analytical estimates are found for the beam deflection, which are then employed for assessing novel and accurate bounds from both sides for the pull-in parameters, taking into account for the effects of the compressive axial load. The analytical predictions are found to closely agree with the numerical results provided by the shooting method. The effects of surface elasticity and residual stresses, which are of significant importance when the physical dimensions of structures descend to nanosize, are also included in the proposed approach.     

Adomian decomposition method used for solving nonlinear pull-in behavior in electrostatic micro-actuators

Nonlinear pull-in behavior for different electrostatic micro-actuators were simulated in this study. The Adomian decomposition method was employed to overcome the difficulty in the nonlinear equation of motion. Because no iteration is required in solving the nonlinear deformation, the decomposition method is one of the most efficient methods for evaluating the unstable pull-in behavior of an electrostatic micro-actuator. To investigate the feasibility of applying the Adomian decomposition method in dealing with the nonlinear deflection equation in the micro-actuator problem, different types of micro-actuators, e.g., fixed-fixed beam actuator and cantilever beam actuator were studied and analyzed. The calculated results agreed well with those from the literature.     

Absolute and Convective Instabilities of Semi-bounded Spatially Developing Flows

We analyse the absolute and convective instabilities of, and spatially amplifying waves in, semi-bounded spatially developing flows and media by applying the Laplace transform in time to the corresponding initial-value linear stability problem and treating the resulting boundary-value problem on ?⁺ for a vector equation as a dynamical system. The analysis is an extension of our recently developed linear stability theory for spatially developing open flows and media with algebraically decaying tails and for fronts to flows in a semi-infinite domain. We derive the global normal-mode dispersion relations for different domains of frequency and treat absolute instability, convectively unstable wave packets and signalling. It is shown that when the limit state at infinity, i.e. the associated uniform state, is stable, the inhomogeneous flow is either stable or absolutely unstable. The inhomogeneous flow is absolutely stable but convectively unstable if and only if the flow is globally stable and the associated uniform state is convectively unstable. In such a case signalling in the inhomogeneous flow is identical with signalling in the associated uniform state.     

Quadratic optimal control of stable well-posed linear systems

We consider the infinite horizon quadratic cost minimization problem for a stable time-invariant well-posed linear system in the sense of Salamon and Weiss, and show that it can be reduced to a spectral factorization problem in the control space. More precisely, we show that the optimal solution of the quadratic cost minimization problem is of static state feedback type if and only if a certain spectral factorization problem has a solution. If both the system and the spectral factor are regular, then the feedback operator can be expressed in terms of the Riccati operator, and the Riccati operator is a positive self-adjoint solution of an algebraic Riccati equation. This Riccati equation is similar to the usual algebraic Riccati equation, but one of its coefficients varies depending on the subspace in which the equation is posed. Similar results are true for unstable systems, as we have proved elsewhere.

     

Dynamic contact problem for viscoelastic piezoelectric materials with normal damped response and friction

In this paper, we deal with a class of inequality problems for dynamic frictional contact between a piezoelectric body and a foundation. The model consists of a system of the hemivariational inequality of hyperbolic type for the displacement, the time dependent elliptic equation for the electric potential. The contact is modeled by a general normal damped response condition and a friction law, which are nonmonotone, possibly multivalued and have the subdifferential form. The existence of a weak solution to the model is proved by embedding the problem into a class of second-order evolution inclusions and by applying a surjectivity result for multivalued operators.     

Static stability analysis of a thin plate with a fixed trailing edge in axial subsonic flow: Possio integral equation approach

In this work, the static stability of a thin plate in axial subsonic airflow is studied using the framework of Possio integral equation. Specifically, we consider the cases when the plate’s leading edge is free and the plate’s trailing edge is either pinned or clamped. We formulate the problem under consideration using a partial differential equations (PDE) model and then linearize the model about the free stream velocity, density, and pressure, to enable analytical treatment. Based on the linearized model, we introduce a new derivation of a Possio integral equation that relates the pressure jump along the thin plate to the plate’s downwash. The steady state solution to the Possio equation is then used to account for the aerodynamic loads in the plate steady state governing equation resulting in a singular differential-integral equation which is transformed to a singular integral equation that represents the static aeroelastic equation of the plate. We verify the solvability of the static aeroelastic equation based on the Fredholm alternative for compact operators in Banach spaces and the contraction mapping theorem. By constructing solutions to the static aeroelastic equation and matching the nonzero boundary conditions at the trailing edge with the zero boundary conditions at the leading edge, we obtain characteristic equations for the free-clamped and free-pinned plates. The minimum solutions to the characteristic equations are the divergence speeds which indicate when static instabilities start to occur. We show analytically that free-pinned plates are statically unstable. We also construct, analytically, flow speed intervals that correspond to static stability regions for free-clamped plates. Furthermore, we resort to numerical computations to obtain an explicit formula for the divergence speed of free-clamped plates. Finally, we apply the obtained results on piezoelectric plates and we show that free-clamped piezoelectric plates are statically more stable than conventional free-clamped plates due to the piezoelectric coupling.     

Dynamic bilateral contact problem for viscoelastic piezoelectric materials with adhesion

A model of a dynamic viscoelastic adhesive contact between a piezoelectric body and a deformable foundation is described. The model consists of a system of the hemivariational inequality of hyperbolic type for the displacement, the time dependent elliptic equation for the electric potential and the ordinary differential equation for the adhesion field. In the hemivariational inequality the friction forces are derived from a nonconvex superpotential through the generalized Clarke subdifferential. The existence of a weak solution is proved by embedding the problem into a class of second-order evolution inclusions and by applying a surjectivity result for multivalued operators.     

Nonlinear free vibration analysis of simply supported piezo-laminated plates with random actuation electric potential difference and material properties

Studies are made on nonlinear free vibrations of simply supported piezo-laminated rectangular plates with immovable edges utilizing Kirchoff’s hypothesis and von Kármán strain–displacement relations. The effect of random material properties of the base structure and actuation electric potential difference on the nonlinear free vibration of the plate is examined. The study is confined to linear-induced strain in the piezoelectric layer applicable to low electric fields. The von Kármán’s large deflection equations for generally laminated elastic plates are derived in terms of stress function and transverse deflection function. A deflection function satisfying the simply supported boundary conditions is assumed and a stress function is then obtained after solving the compatibility equation. Applying the modified Galerkin’s method to the governing nonlinear partial differential equations, a modal equation of Duffing’s type is obtained. It is solved by exact integration. Monte Carlo simulation has been carried out to examine the response statistics considering the material properties and actuation electric potential difference of the piezoelectric layer as random variables. The extremal values of response are also evaluated utilizing the Convex model as well as the Multivariate method. Results obtained through the different statistical approaches are found to be in good agreement with each other.     

Unstable limit cycles in an electric power system and basin boundary of voltage collapse

It has been reported that a saddle node bifurcation or a blue sky bifurcation causes voltage collapse in an electric power system. In these references, computer simulations are carried out with the voltage magnitude of the generator bus terminal held constant. The generator model described by differential equations of internal flux linkages allows the voltage magnitude of the generator bus terminal to change. By using this model, we have carried out computer simulations of the power system to determine the cause of voltage collapse. It is a cyclic fold bifurcation of the stable limit cycle caused by an unstable limit cycle that leads to the voltage collapse. The involvement of complicated sequences of unstable limit cycles with cyclic fold bifurcations is confirmed, and the voltage collapse which is caused by perturbation for steady states is related to these unstable limit cycles. This is very interesting from the point of view of a nonlinear problem. From the point of view of a power system, the power system will fluctuate in practice even in normal operation, and may sometimes operate beyond the limit of its stability in recent year. It is very important in this situation that we clarify bifurcations of limit cycles on the power system.     

外激励下压电球壳的球对称稳态响应分析

对压电球壳空间球对称稳态响应问题进行了研究。考虑空间球对称压电材料,不计体力和自由电荷,在球坐标下利用弹性理论,由压电材料的本构方程、几何方程和运动方程导出了外激励作用下位移、应力、应变、电势、电位移和电场强度各量的稳态解,并对带压电激励和感应层的弹性球壳的球对称响应问题进行了求解。该结果可以给结构的空间球对称动力控制问题提供良好的理论依据,为日后对于一般性的空间动力问题的研究提供参考。     

Stability of an Elastic Tube Conveying a Non-Newtonian Fluid and Having a Locally Weakened Section

The work is devoted to the stability analysis of the flow of a non-Newtonian powerlaw fluid in an elastic tube. Integrating the equations of motion over the cross section, we obtain a one-dimensional equation that describes long-wave low-frequency motions of the system in which the rheology of the flowing fluid is taken into account. In the first part of the paper, we find a stability criterion for an infinite uniform tube and an absolute instability criterion. We show that instability under which the axial symmetry of motion of the tube is preserved is possible only for a power-law index of n < 0.611, and absolute instability is possible only for n < 1/3; thus, after the loss of stability of a linear viscous medium, the flow cannot preserve the axial symmetry, which agrees with the available results. In the second part of the paper, applying the WKB method, we analyze the stability of a tube whose stiffness varies slowly in space in such a way that there is a “weakened” region of finite length in which the “fluid–tube” system is locally unstable. We prove that the tube is globally unstable if the local instability is absolute; otherwise, the local instability is suppressed by the surrounding locally stable regions. Solving numerically the eigenvalue problem, we demonstrate the high accuracy of the result obtained by the WKB method even for a sufficiently fast variation of stiffness along the tube axis.     

Exact boundary controllability of vibrating non-classical Euler–Bernoulli micro-scale beams

This study investigates the exact controllability problem for a vibrating non-classical Euler–Bernoulli micro-beam whose governing partial differential equation (PDE) of motion is derived based on the non-classical continuum mechanics. In this paper, it is proved that via boundary controls, it is possible to obtain exact controllability which consists of driving the vibrating system to rest in finite time. This control objective is achieved based on the PDE model of the system which causes that spillover instabilities do not occur.     

Nonlinear behavior and characterization of a piezoelectric laminated microbeam system

A methodology of analyzing and characterizing the responses of a piezoelectric laminated microbeam system actuated by AC and DC voltages is developed in this research. The present development is based on the piezoelectric theory, Euler–Bernoulli hypothesis, and a newly developed periodicity–ratio (P–R) approach. The electric excitation loading on the beam is considered to be generated by AC and DC interactions. The control voltage of the piezoelectric layer and the geometric nonlinearity of the beam are also taken into account. The analysis of the nonlinear motion trend of the beam system with multiple parameters is carried out with the employment of the P–R criterion. The findings of the research are significant for the design of microbeam systems and micro-structures.