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A finite element model for nonlinear behaviour of piezoceramics under weak electric fields

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Title A finite element model for nonlinear behaviour of piezoceramics under weak electric fields
 
Creator SAMAL, MK
SESHU, P
PARASHAR, S
VON WAGNER, U
HAGEDORN, P
DUTTA, BK
KUSHWAHA, HS
 
Subject ceramic material
frequency response
nonlinear systems
vibrations (mechanical)
 
Description It has been experimentally observed that piezoceramic materials exhibit different types of nonlinearities under different combinations of electric and mechanical fields. When excited near resonance in the presence of weak e to a Duffinor such as jump phenomena and presence of superharmonics in the response spectra. There has not been much work in the litrature to model these types of nonlinearities. Some authors have developed one-dimensional models for the above phenomenon and derived closed-form solutions for the displacement response of piezo-actuators. However, the generalized three-dimensional (3-D) formulation of electric enthalpy, the variational formulation and the FEM implementation have not yet been addressed, which are the focus of this paper. In this work, these nonlinearities have been modelled in a 3-D piezoelectric continuum using higher order quadratic and cubic terms in the generalized electric enthalpy density function. The coupled nonlinear finite element equations have been derived using variational formulation. A special linearization technique for assembling the nonlinear matrices and solution of the resulting nonlinear equations has been developed. The method has been used for simulating the nonlinear frequency response of a lead zirconate titanate plate excited near its first in-plane vibration resonance frequency with sinusoidal excitations of different electric field strengths. The results have been compared with those of the experiment.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2009-04-21T14:10:04Z
2011-11-25T21:06:36Z
2011-12-26T13:08:38Z
2011-12-27T05:56:35Z
2009-04-21T14:10:04Z
2011-11-25T21:06:36Z
2011-12-26T13:08:38Z
2011-12-27T05:56:35Z
2005
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 41(15), 1464-1480
0168-874X
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2005.05.002
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/1187
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/1187
 
Language en