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    Effect of Electric Field on the Response of Clamped-FreeMagnetostrictive/Piezoelectric/Magnetostrictive Laminates

    Kotaro Mori1, Fumio Narita1, Yasuhide Shindo1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 187-200, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.023.187
    Abstract This work deals with the response of clamped-free magnetostrictive/piezoelectric/magnetostrictive laminates under electric field both numerically and experimentally. The laminate is fabricated using two magnetostrictive Terfenol-D layers and a soft piezoelectric PZT layer. Easy axis of Terfenol-D layers is length direction, while the polarization of PZT layer is the thickness direction. The magnetostriction of the Terfenol-D layers bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of the PZT layer is first measured. Next, a nonlinear finite element analysis is employed to evaluate the second-order magnetoelastic constants in the Terfenol-D layers bonded to the PZT layer using measured More >

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    Modeling of Effective Properties of Multiphase Magnetoelectroelastic Heterogeneous Materials

    A. Bakkali1, L. Azrar1,2, N. Fakri1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 201-232, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.023.201
    Abstract In this paper an N-phase Incremental Self Consistent model is developed for magnetoelectroelastic composites as well as the N-phase Mori-Tanaka and classical Self Consistent. Our aim here is to circumvent the limitation of the Self Consistent predictions for some coupling effective properties at certain inclusion volume fractions. The anomalies of the SC estimates are more drastic when the void inclusions are considered. The mathematical modeling is based on the heterogeneous inclusion problem of Eshelby which leads to an expression for the strain-electric-magnetic field related by integral equations. The effective N-phase magnetoelectroelastic moduli are expressed as More >

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    Finite Rotation Piezoelectric Exact Geometry Solid-Shell Element with Nine Degrees of Freedom per Node

    G. M. Kulikov1, S. V. Plotnikova1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 233-264, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.023.233
    Abstract This paper presents a robust non-linear piezoelectric exact geometry (EG) four-node solid-shell element based on the higher-order 9-parameter equivalent single-layer (ESL) theory, which permits one to utilize 3D constitutive equations. The term EG reflects the fact that coefficients of the first and second fundamental forms of the reference surface are taken exactly at each element node. The finite element formulation developed is based on a new concept of interpolation surfaces (I-surfaces) inside the shell body. We introduce three I-surfaces and choose nine displacements of these surfaces as fundamental shell unknowns. Such choice allows us to… More >

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    A New Discrete-Layer Finite Element for Electromechanically Coupled Analyses of Piezoelectric Adaptive Composite Structures

    M. Al-Ajmi1, A. Benjeddou2
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 265-286, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.023.265
    Abstract A new discrete layer finite element (DLFE) is presented for electro-mechanically coupled analyses of moderately thick piezoelectric adaptive composite plates. The retained kinematics is based on layer-wise first-order shear deformation theory, and considers the plies top and bottom surfaces in-plane displacements and the plate transverse deflection as mechanical unknowns. The former are assumed in-plane Lagrange linear, while the latter is assumed in-plane full (Lagrange) quadratic; this results in a nine nodes quadrangular (Q9) DLFE. The latter is validated in free-vibrations, first numerically against ANSYS three-dimensional piezoelectric finite elements for a cantilever moderately thick aluminum plate… More >

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    Fatigue Damage Accumulation in a Cu-based Shape Memory Alloy: Preliminary Investigation

    F. Casciati1, S. Casciati2, L. Faravelli1, A. Marzi1
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 287-306, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.023.287
    Abstract The potential offered by the main features of shape memory alloys (SMA) in Structural Engineering applications is object of attention since two decades. The main issues concern the predictability of the material behavior and the fatigue lifetime of macro structural elements (as different from wire segments). In this paper, the fatigue characteristics, at given temperatures, of multigrain samples of a specific Cu-based alloy are investigated. The results of laboratory tests on bar specimens are discussed. The target is to model the manner in which the effects of several loading-unloading cycles of different amplitude cumulate. More >

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