Amplification of acoustic waves in piezoelectric semiconductor plates

Two-dimensional equations for coupled extensional, flexural and thickness-shear motions of thin plates of piezoelectric semiconductors are obtained systematically from the three-dimensional equations by retaining lower order terms in power series expansions in the plate thickness coordinate. The two-dimensional equations are specialized to crystals of 6 mm symmetry and are simplified by thickness-shear approximation. Propagation of thickness-shear waves and their amplification by a dc electric field are analyzed.     

Interaction between bending and mobile charges in a piezoelectric semiconductor bimorph

We study the bending of a two-layer piezoelectric semiconductor plate (bimorph). The macroscopic theory of piezoelectric semiconductors is employed. A set of two-dimensional plate equations is derived from the three-dimensional equations. The plate equations exhibit direct couplings among bending, electric polarization along the plate thickness, and mobile charges. In the case of pure bending, a combination of physical and geometric parameters is identified which characterizes the strength of the interaction between the mechanical load and the distribution of mobile charges. In the bending of a rectangular plate under a distributed transverse mechanical load, it is shown that mobile charge distributions and potential barriers/wells develop in the plate. When the mechanical load is local and self-balanced, the induced carrier distributions and potential barriers/wells are also localized near the loading area. The results are fundamentally useful for mechanically manipulating mobile charges in piezoelectric semiconductor devices.     

One-dimensional equations for coupled extensional,radial, and axial-shear motions of circular piezoelectric ceramic rods with axial poling

A system of approximate, one-dimensional partial differential equations with one spatial coordinate and time as independent variables is derived for axisymmetric motions of a piezoelectric ceramic rod of circular cross section. The equations take into account the couplings among extensional, radial and axial-shear modes. The dispersion curves for the three waves in an infinite rod are compared with analogous solutions of the three-dimensional equations. The equations obtained are useful in the modeling of ceramic rod piezoelectric transducers that are not very long and thin.     

One-dimensional dynamic equations of a piezoelectric semiconductor beam with a rectangular cross section and their application in static and dynamic characteristic analysis

Within the framework of continuum mechanics, the double power series expansion technique is proposed, and a series of reduced one-dimensional (1D) equations for a piezoelectric semiconductor beam are obtained. These derived equations are universal, in which extension, flexure, and shear deformations are all included, and can be degenerated to a number of special cases, e.g., extensional motion, coupled extensional and flexural motion with shear deformations, and elementary flexural motion without shear deformations. As a typical application, the extensional motion of a ZnO beam is analyzed sequentially. It is revealed that semi-conduction has a great effect on the performance of the piezoelectric semiconductor beam, including static deformations and dynamic behaviors. A larger initial carrier density will evidently lead to a lower resonant frequency and a smaller displacement response, which is a little similar to the dissipative effect. Both the derived approximate equations and the corresponding qualitative analysis are general and widely applicable, which can clearly interpret the inner physical mechanism of the semiconductor in the piezoelectrics and provide theoretical guidance for further experimental design.     

A continuum damage model for piezoelectric materials

In this paper, a constitutive model is proposed for piezoelectric material solids containing distributed cracks. The model is formulated in a framework of continuum damage mechanics using second rank tensors as internal variables. The Helrnhotlz free energy of piezoelectric mate- rials with damage is then expressed as a polynomial including the transformed strains, the electric field vector and the tensorial damage variables by using the integrity bases restricted by the initial orthotropic symmetry of the material. By using the Talreja＇s tensor valued internal state damage variables as well as the Helrnhotlz free energy of the piezoelectric material, the constitutive relations of piezoelectric materials with damage are derived. The model is applied to a special case of piezoelectric plate with transverse matrix cracks. With the Kirchhoff hypothesis of plate, the free vibration equations of the piezoelectric rectangular plate considering damage is established. By using Galerkin method, the equations are solved. Numerical results show the effect of the damage on the free vibration of the piezoelectric plate under the close-circuit condition, and the present results are compared with those of the three-dimensional theory.     

An approximate analysis of thickness-stretch waves in an elastic plate

Two-dimensional equations for coupled extensional and thickness-stretch waves in an elastic plate are simplified by eliminating the extensional displacements in a systematic manner; the result is a single equation governing thickness-stretch motions. A similar reduction is also performed for coupled extensional, thickness-stretch, and symmetric thickness-shear waves. The procedure is similar to that used in the thickness-shear approximation, wherein the flexural displacement is eliminated from the equations for coupled flexural and thickness-shear motions. The resulting equations are used to discuss the energy-trapped vibration of plates in thickness-stretch modes.     

带附加质量块的压电圆板能量采集器振动分析

基于圆板的压电能量采集技术在取代化学电池为低功耗电子器件提供能源方面具有巨大的潜能. 本文通过理论建模和数值仿真研究了考虑附加质量接触面积的压电圆板能量采集器的采集性能. 首先, 基于基尔霍夫薄板理论, 用广义哈密顿原理推导了带附加质量块的压电圆板能量采集器的机电耦合方程, 并用伽辽金法对方程近似离散, 通过离散方程得到电压、功率输出和最优负载阻抗的闭合解. 用有限元仿真对所提出的理论模型进行了验证, 结果表明该理论模型可以成功地预测压电圆板能量采集器输出电压和功率. 最后, 基于闭合解探讨了负载阻抗、附加质量块、压电圆板的内外半径等相关参数对压电圆板能量采集器固有频率、输出电压和功率的影响. 结果表明, 当质量块与复合板的接触半径足够小(本文中接触半径小于板半径的1/14)时, 质量块与复合圆板的接触面积可以忽略; 相较于无孔的压电片, 内径位于2.5 ~ 4 mm范围内的压电片可以提高能量采集器的采集性能; 附加质量、压电片外径和负载阻抗的合理选择既可以降低压电圆板的固有频率, 还可以提高其采集性能.      

多层压电材料层合板的精确解

抛弃有关位移和应力的所有假设，直接从三维弹性力学理论的静电学理论，先导出正交各向异性压电材料板的状态方程，由此得到四边简支压电材料板的状态主程，再根据矩阵分析理论，建立了单层压电材料板的上下表面状态量之间的关系，进一步建立了多层压电板上，下表面状态量之间关系式，利用上下表面已知状态量，得到上表面未知状态的求解方程解。通过求解方程组，便得上表面未知状态量，最终可以得到任意位置处状态量，最后，同时给出了四边简支，两层不同压电材料组成，不同纵横比的层合板受正弦分布载荷作用下的精确解，其结果与现有解比较，吻合较好。     

非线性压电效应下压电层合板的弯曲

考虑非线性压电效应,即电致弹性和电致伸缩效应情况下压电层合板的弯曲。从非线性压电方程和几何方程导出了压电层合板合应力、合力矩与应变之间的广义本构关系,这些关系关于电场是非线性的。利用Ritz法和双傅立叶级数得到四边简支对称压电层合板在高电场作用下的非线性解并进行计算。结果表明,只考虑线性压电效应只能适应于作用电场较低或基础层的刚度比压电层的刚度要大得多的情况。     

Double Hopf bifurcation of composite laminated piezoelectric plate subjected to external and internal excitations

The double Hopf bifurcation of a composite laminated piezoelectric plate with combined external and internal excitations is studied. Using a multiple scale method, the average equations are obtained in two coordinates. The bifurcation response equations of the composite laminated piezoelectric plate with the primary parameter resonance, i.e.,1:3 internal resonance, are achieved. Then, the bifurcation feature of bifurcation equations is considered using the singularity theory. A bifurcation diagram is obtained on the parameter plane. Different steady state solutions of the average equations are analyzed.By numerical simulation, periodic vibration and quasi-periodic vibration responses of the composite laminated piezoelectric plate are obtained.     

Multi-pulse chaotic motions of high-dimension nonlinear system for a laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate

This paper investigates the multi-pulse global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics of the high-dimension nonlinear system for a laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate by using an extended Melnikov method in the resonant case. Using the von Karman type equations, Reddy’s third-order shear deformation plate theory and Hamilton’s principle, the equations of motion are derived for the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate with combined parametric excitations and transverse excitation. Applying the method of multiple scales and Galerkin’s approach to the partial differential governing equation, the four-dimensional averaged equation is obtained for the case of 1:2 internal resonance and primary parametric resonance. From the averaged equations obtained, the theory of normal form is used to derive the explicit expressions of normal form with a double zero and a pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues. Based on the explicit expressions of normal form, the extended Melnikov method is used for the first time to investigate the Shilnikov type multi-pulse homoclinic bifurcations and chaotic dynamics of the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate. The necessary conditions of the existence for the Shilnikov type multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate are analytically obtained. Numerical simulations also illustrate that the Shilnikov type multi-pulse chaotic motions can also occur in the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate. Overall, both theoretical and numerical studies demonstrate that the chaos in the Smale horseshoe sense exists for the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate.     

压电板屈曲和后屈曲的有限元分析

采用板的一附剪切理论,并考虑结构的几何非线性,基于Ｔｏｔａｌ Ｌａｇｒａｎｇｅ方法,建立了在弱非线性耦合假设下压电智能的有限元控制方法,分析了没边界条件下压电板的屈曲和后屈曲,计算结果表明,在单向压力作用下,材料的压电效应和外加电压对板的屈曲载荷及后屈曲影响很小;而电场对位移加载简支板的屈曲影响较显著。该文为压电材料的工程应用提供了理论指导,同时提供了一种有效的有限元分析方法。     

Multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of six-dimensional non-autonomous nonlinear system for a composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate

Global bifurcations and multi-pulse chaotic dynamics are studied for a four-edge simply supported composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate under combined in-plane, transverse, and dynamic electrical excitations. Based on the von Karman type equations for the geometric nonlinearity and Reddy’s third-order shear deformation theory, the governing equations of motion for a composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate are derived. The Galerkin method is employed to discretize the partial differential equations of motion to a three-degree-of-freedom nonlinear system. The six-dimensional non-autonomous nonlinear system is simplified to a three-order standard form by using the method of normal form. The extended Melnikov method is improved to investigate the six-dimensional non-autonomous nonlinear dynamical system in mixed coordinate. The global bifurcations and multi-pulse chaotic dynamics of the composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate are studied by using the improved extended Melnikov method. The multi-pulse chaotic motions of the system are found by using numerical simulation, which further verifies the result of theoretical analysis.     

AN EXACT ANALYSIS OF FORCED THICKNESS-TWIST VIBRATIONS OF MULTI-LAYERED PIEZOELECTRIC PLATES

This paper deals with the thickness-twist vibration of a multi-layered rectangular piezoelectric plate of crystals of 6 mm symmetry or polarized ceramics.An exact solution is obtained from the three-dimensional equations of linear piezoelectricity.The solution is useful to the understanding and design of composite piezoelectric devices.A piezoelectric resonator,a piezoelectric transformer,and a piezoelectric generator are analyzed as examples.     

Stability of viscoelastic rectangular plate with a piezoelectric layer subjected to follower force

The effects of a piezoelectric layer on the stability of viscoelastic plates subjected to the follower forces are evaluated. The differential equation of motion of the viscoelastic plate with the piezoelectric layer is formulated using the two-dimensional viscoelastic differential constitutive relation and the thin plate theory. The weak integral form of the differential equations and the force boundary conditions are obtained. Using the element-free Galerkin method, the governing equation of the viscoelastic rectangular plate with elastic dilatation and Kelvin–Voigt distortion is derived, subjected to the follower forces coupled with the piezoelectric effect. A generalized complex eigenvalue problem is solved, and the force excited by the piezoelectric layer due to external voltage is modeled as the follower tensile force; this force is used to improve the stability of the non-conservative viscoelastic plate. For the viscoelastic plate with various boundary conditions, the results for the instability type and the critical loads are presented to show the variations in these factors with respect to the location of the piezoelectric layers and the applied voltages. The stability of the viscoelastic plates can be effectively improved by the determination of the optimal location for the piezoelectric layers and the most favorable voltage assignment.     

Nonlinear thickness-shear vibration of an infinite piezoelectric plate with flexoelectricity based on the method of multiple scales

This paper presents a nonlinear thickness-shear vibration model for onedimensional infinite piezoelectric plate with flexoelectricity and geometric nonlinearity. The constitutive equations with flexoelectricity and governing equations are derived from the Gibbs energy density function and variational principle. The displacement adopted here is assumed to be antisymmetric through the thickness due to the thickness-shear vibration mode. Only the shear strain gradient through the thickness is considered in the present model. With geometric nonlinearity, the governing equations are converted into differential equations as the function of time by the Galerkin method. The method of multiple scales is employed to obtain the solution to the nonlinear governing equation with first order approximation. Numerical results show that the nonlinear thickness-shear vibration of piezoelectric plate is size dependent, and the flexoelectric effect has significant influence on the nonlinear thickness-shear vibration frequencies of micro-size thin plates. The geometric nonlinearity also affects the thickness-shear vibration frequencies greatly. The results show that flexoelectricity and geometric nonlinearity cannot be ignored in design of accurate high-frequency piezoelectric devices.     

Derivation of Plate and Rod Equations for a Piezoelectric Body from a Mixed Three-Dimensional Variational Principle

We use a mixed 3-dimensional variational principle to derive 2-dimensional equations for an anisotropic plate-like piezoelectric body and one-dimensional equations for an anisotropic beam-like piezoelectric body. The formulation accounts for double forces without moments which may change the thickness of the plate and deform the cross-section of the rod. The dependence of the bending rigidities of a transversely isotropic plate upon the angle between the normal to the midsurface and the direction of transverse isotropy is exhibited. The plate equations are used to study the cylindrical deformations of a transversely isotropic plate due to equal and opposite charges applied to its top and bottom surfaces. It is also found that a piezoelectric circular rod with axis of transverse isotropy not coincident with its centroidal axis and subjected to electric charges at the end faces is deformed into a non-prismatic body.     

功能梯度压电夹层结构中SH波的传播

研究了功能梯度压电上、下半空间和均匀压电层组成的夹层结构中SH波的传播性能,上、下功能梯度半空间的材料性能沿垂直于界面方向以指数函数形式变化。首先推导了SH传播时电弹场的解析解,然后利用界面条件得到了行列式形式的频散方程。基于推导的频散方程,通过数值算例表明了材料性能梯度变化、压电层厚度和材料组合方式对相速度的影响,结果对功能梯度压电材料在声波器件中的应用有参考价值。     

Electromechanical Fields Near a Circular PN Junction Between Two Piezoelectric Semiconductors

We study electromechanical fields near the interface between a circular piezoelectric semiconductor cylinder and another piezoelectric semiconductor in which it is embedded.The cylinder is p-doped. The surrounding material is n-doped. The phenomenological theory of piezoelectric semiconductors consisting of the equations of piezoelectricity and the conservation of charge for holes and electrons is used. The theory is linearized for small carrier concentration perturbations. An analytical solution is obtained, showing the formation of a PN junction near the interface. Various electromechanical fields associated with the junction are calculated. The effects of a few physical parameters are examined.     

A refined theory of elastic thick plates for extensional deformation

Based on elasticity theory, various two-dimensional (2D) equations and solutions for extensional deformation have been deduced systematically and directly from the three-dimensional (3D) theory of thick rectangular plates by using the Papkovich–Neuber solution and the Lur’e method without ad hoc assumptions. These equations and solutions can be used to construct a refined theory of thick plates for extensional deformation. It is shown that the displacements and stresses of the plate can be represented by the displacements and transverse normal strain of the midplane. In the case of homogeneous boundary conditions, the exact solutions for the plate are derived, and the exact equations consist of three governing differential equations: the biharmonic equation, the shear equation, and the transcendental equation. With the present theory a solution of these can satisfy all the fundamental equations of 3D elasticity. Moreover, the refined theory of thick plate for bending deformation constructed by Cheng is improved, and some physical or mathematical explanations and proof are provided to support our justification. It is important to note that the refined theory is consistent with the decomposition theorem by Gregory. In the case of nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, the approximate governing differential equations and solutions for the plate are accurate up to the second-order terms with respect to plate thickness. The correctness of the stress assumptions in the classic plane-stress problems is revised. In an example it is shown that the exact or accurate solutions may be obtained by applying the refined theory deduced herein.