Free vibration of a functionally graded annular sector plate integrated with piezoelectric layers

Based on the first order shear deformation theory, free vibration behavior of functionally graded (FG) annular sector plates integrated with piezoelectric layers is investigated. The distribution of electric potential along the thickness direction of piezoelectric layers which is assumed to be a combination of linear and sinusoidal functions, satisfies both open and closed circuit electrical boundary conditions. Through a reformulation of governing equations and harmonic motion assumption, a novel decoupling method is suggested to transform the six second order coupled partial differential equations of motion into two eighth order and fourth order equations. A Fourier series method is then employed to present analytical solutions for free vibration of smart FG annular sector plates with simply supported radial edges and arbitrarily supported circular edges. The results, which can be used as a benchmark and suitable for design purposes, are verified with those reported in the literature. Finally, by presenting extensive ranges of frequencies, the effects of geometric parameters, power law index, FG and piezoelectric materials, electrical and mechanical boundary conditions as well as the piezoelectric layer thickness on vibration response of smart annular sector plates are discussed in detail.     

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.     

An explicit exact analytical approach for free vibration of circular/annular functionally graded plates bonded to piezoelectric actuator/sensor layers based on Reddy’s plate theory

In the present study, a novel exact closed-form procedure based on the third order shear deformation plate theory is developed to analyze in-plane and out-of-plane frequency responses of circular/annular functionally graded material (FGM) plates embedded in piezoelectric layers for both close/open circuit electrical boundary conditions. Introducing a new analytical method, five governing partial deferential equations of motion beside Maxwell electrostatic equation are solved via an exact closed-form method. The high accuracy and reliability of the present approach is confirmed by comparing some of the present data with their counterparts reported in the literature. Finally, the effect of material properties, power law index and boundary conditions on the free vibration of the smart FGM plate are studied and discussed in detail.     

Model-based control strategies for systems with constraints of the program type

The paper presents a model-based tracking control strategy for constrained mechanical systems. Constraints we consider can be material and non-material ones referred to as program constraints. The program constraint equations represent tasks put upon system motions and they can be differential equations of orders higher than one or two, and be non-integrable. The tracking control strategy relies upon two dynamic models: a reference model, which is a dynamic model of a system with arbitrary order differential constraints and a dynamic control model. The reference model serves as a motion planner, which generates inputs to the dynamic control model. It is based upon a generalized program motion equations (GPME) method. The method enables to combine material and program constraints and merge them both into the motion equations. Lagrange’s equations with multipliers are the peculiar case of the GPME, since they can be applied to systems with constraints of first orders. Our tracking strategy referred to as a model reference program motion tracking control strategy enables tracking of any program motion predefined by the program constraints. It extends the “trajectory tracking” to the “program motion tracking”. We also demonstrate that our tracking strategy can be extended to a hybrid program motion/force tracking.     

Complex guided waves in functionally graded piezoelectric cylindrical structures with sectorial cross-section

For the purpose of the design and optimization of piezoelectric transducers, the modified double orthogonal polynomial series method is proposed to investigate guided waves in functionally graded piezoelectric(FGP) cylindrical structures with sectorial cross-section. The real, imaginary and complex solutions are obtained simultaneously without iterative process. The real solutions represent propagative waves; the imaginary and complex solutions are evanescent waves. The boundary conditions are incorporated into the constitutive equations by virtue of the Heaviside function. Subsequently, the amplitudes are expanded into the double orthogonal polynomial series, and the motion equations are converted into a matrix eigenvalue problem about complex wavenumber. Numerical comparison with available reference result confirms the validity of the present method. Dispersion curves and the Poynting vector distributions are illustrated. The influences of angular measure, radius-thickness ratio and graded index on dispersion curves are analyzed. Results show that there exist some evanescent guided wave modes that have higher velocities than that of the propagative wave modes and simultaneously have low attenuation at high frequencies. These results can be utilized to improve the performance of transducers.     

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。     

Finite volume analysis of adaptive beams with piezoelectric sensors and actuators

This paper presents a finite volume (FV) formulation for the free vibration analysis and active vibration control of the smart beams with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. The governing equations based on Timoshenko beam theory are discretized using the finite volume method. For the purpose of forced vibration control of beam structures, the negative velocity feedback controller is designed for the single-input, single-output system. To achieve the best effect, the piezoelectric sensors and actuators are coupled with the host structure in different positions and then the performance of the designed control system is evaluated for each position. In the test examples, first the shear locking free feature of the present formulation is demonstrated. This has been performed by doing static and natural frequency analysis of some reference models. Then, the capability of the proposed method for the prediction of uncontrolled forced vibration response and active vibration control of a beam structure is studied.     

The discrete-continuous model of the one-dimension vibrating mechatronic system

This work presents the analysis of the flexural vibrating one-dimension mechatronic system – the cantilever beam and the piezoelectric transducer bonded with the beam's surface by means of a connection layer. The external RC circuit is adjoined to the transducer's clamps. Dynamic equations of motion of the considered mechatronic system were written down using discrete – continuous mathematical model, taking into consideration the influence of the connection layer and the external electric circuit. The dynamic flexibility of the mechatronic system was assigned on the basis of the approximate Galerkin's method. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Dynamic responses of the impact drive mechanism modeled by the distributed parameter system

The piezoelectric actuator has been used for precision positioning from micro-meter down to nano-meter scale. In this paper, the impact drive mechanism (IDM) is designed to achieve a high accuracy and ability in precision positioning motion, where the frictional force is described by the Leuven model combined with the Bounc–Wen model of the hysteresis. The frictional model allows accurate dynamic modeling both in the sliding and the presliding regimes without using switching functions. The governing equations with the hysteresis effects of the distributed parameter system are formulated to obtain the dynamic responses. By using the finite element formulation, numerical solutions due to effects of the piezoelectric element (PE) are provided to compare between the distributed and lumped parameter systems of the IDM. It is shown that the neglect in the mass of the PE will cause the precision errors in the scale of tens nano-meters.     

A note on disturbances in a piezoelectric slab

Summary In the present note, the equations of electricity and the equations of motion have been used to investigate the disturbances in a piezoelectric slab excited by a step electric field. The application of the Laplace transform facilitates the solution of the problem.     

Characterization of a nonlinear MEMS-based piezoelectric resonator for wideband micro power generation

Micro-scale piezoelectric unimorph beams with attached proof masses are the most prevalent structures in MEMS-based energy harvesters considering micro fabrication and natural frequency limitations. In doubly clamped beams a nonlinear stiffness is observed as a result of midplane stretching effect which leads to amplitude-stiffened Duffing resonance. In this study, a nonlinear model of a doubly clamped piezoelectric micro power generator, taking into account geometric nonlinearities including stretching and large curvatures, is investigated. The governing nonlinear coupled electromechanical partial differential equations of motion are determined by exploiting Hamilton's principle. A semi-analytical approach implementing the perturbation method of multiple scales is used to solve the nonlinear coupled differential equations and analyze the primary and superharmonic resonances. Results indicate that operational bandwidth of the nonlinear harvester is enhanced considerably with respect to linear models. Moreover considerable amount of power is generated due to occurrence of superharmonic resonances. This yields to extraction of energy at subharmonics of the natural frequency which is crucially important in MEMS-based harvesters.     

主被动阻尼层合板结构的自由振动和阻尼特性分析

给出了含主被动阻尼非对称复合材料层合板结构的振动微分方程;得到了在压电材料和高粘弹材料作主被动阻尼层情况下,简支层合板结构自由振动的自然频率和损失因子的解析解;分析了正逆向压电效应对自然频率和损失因子的影响     

Hamilton等参元与智能叠层板的半解析法

根据压电材料修正后的Hellinger-Reissner(H-R)变分原理,建立了各向异性压电材料4节点Hamilton等参元的一般形式．为智能叠层板自由振动问题和带有压电块的叠层悬臂梁的瞬态响应等问题提出了一种新的半解析法．数学模型的基本步骤:将压电层和主体层看成独立的三维体,在平面内离散各层,分别建立各层的方程;根据主体层和压电层在连接界面上广义应力和广义位移的连续条件,联立主体层和压电层的方程得到全结构的控制方程．等参元不限制智能板侧面的几何边界形状、板的厚度和层数,有广泛的应用领域．     

Poling angle effect on two mode-III semi-permeable collinear cracks in a piezoelectric strip: Strip-saturation model

A mathematical strip-saturation model is proposed to analyze the influence of changing poling direction on two hairline electrically semi-permeable collinear cracks embedded in a piezoelectric strip. The remote boundaries of the piezoelectric strip are subjected to anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loads. Fourier series method is applied to transform the model into triple series equations which are then reduced to singular integral equations using the integral equation technique. The closed-form analytical expressions are derived for saturation zones length, crack-sliding displacement (CSD), crack opening potential drop (COPD), intensity factors (IFs), and energy release rate (ERR). Influence of the poling angle on CSD, COPD, and ERR are shown graphically for various cracked piezoelectric ceramics. In addition, the numerical study is also presented for analyzing the effect of inter-crack distance and prescribed electrical and mechanical loadings on the fracture parameters. All graphical results are analyzed and compared.     

Well-Posedness of Initial-Boundary Value Problems for Piezoelectric Equations

The well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problems for quasi-electrostatic equations in a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary is proved. The quasi-electrostatic equation is the coupled system of the equations of motion and the equation of the quasistatic electric field. The mass density, the elastic, piezoelectric and dielectric tensors are bounded measurable functions in the domain, and these tensors satisfy the positivity and the symmetry. The initial conditions are given only for the mechanical displacement and its time derivative. The methods of proof are Galerkin's method, duality argument and energy inequality.     

具有主动约束层阻尼板的振动杂交控制*

本文研究了局部附加主动约束阻尼层(LACL)板的主、被动杂交控制问题.基于弹性、粘弹性、压电材料的本构关系,建立了系统的控制方程.利用Galerkin方法和GHM方法将偏微分方程转换为维数不高的常微分方程组,应用LQR方法进行了数值模拟.计算结果表明,这种主动和被动结合的杂交控制方式具有良好的控制效果.     

Modelling of multilayer transducer by means of the graph and structural numbers method

This paper presents the characteristics of piezoelectric plate vibration. Model of simple system were shown. The equations of piezoelectric plate have been derived in terms of longitudinal displacement and electric potential. Three ports system for investigated model was determined. Analysis was done by means the graph and structural numbers method. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Optimal control of an elastic crane-trolley-load system - a case study for optimal control of coupled ODE-PDE systems

We present a mathematical model of a crane-trolley-load model, where the crane beam is subject to the partial differential equation (PDE) of static linear elasticity and the motion of the load is described by the dynamics of a pendulum that is fixed to a trolley moving along the crane beam. The resulting problem serves as a case study for optimal control of fully coupled partial and ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This particular type of coupled systems arises from many applications involving mechanical multi-body systems. We motivate the coupled ODE-PDE model, show its analytical well-posedness locally in time and examine the corresponding optimal control problem numerically by means of a projected gradient method with Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) update.