Yinhu Qiao^1,*, Chunyan Zhang¹, Jiang Han²

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.1, pp. 14-24, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04120

Abstract This paper presents a theoretical analysis of vibration control technology of wind turbine blades made of piezoelectric intelligent structures. The design of the blade structure, which is made from piezoelectric material, is approximately equivalent to a flat shell structure. The differential equations of piezoelectric shallow shells for vibration control are derived based on piezoelectric laminated shell theory. On this basis, wind turbine blades are simplified as elastic piezoelectric laminated shells. We establish the electromechanical coupling system dynamic model of intelligent structures and the dynamic equation of composite piezoelectric flat shell structures by analyzing simulations of More >

M. C. Ray¹, L. Dong², S. N. Atluri³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.111, No.5, pp. 437-471, 2016, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2016.111.437

Abstract This paper is concerned with the development of new simple 4-noded locking-alleviated smart finite elements for modeling the smart composite beams. The exact solutions for the static responses of the overall smart composite beams are also derived for authenticating the new smart finite elements. The overall smart composite beam is composed of a laminated substrate conventional composite beam, and a piezoelectric layer attached at the top surface of the substrate beam. The piezoelectric layer acts as the actuator layer of the smart beam. Alternate finite element models of the beams, based on an "equivalent single… More >

Priyankar Datta¹, Manas C. Ray¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.49-50, No.1, pp. 47-80, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2015.049.047

Abstract This paper deals with the implementation of the one dimensional form of the fractional order derivative constitutive relation for three dimensional analysis of active constrained layer damping (ACLD) of geometrically nonlinear laminated composite plates. The constraining layer of the ACLD treatment is composed of the vertically/obliquely reinforced 1–3 piezoelectric composites (PZCs). The von Kármán type nonlinear strain displacement relations are used to account for the geometric nonlinearity of the plates. A nonlinear smart finite element model (FEM) has been developed. Thin laminated substrate composite plates with various boundary conditions and stacking sequences are analyzed to More >

M. C. Ray¹, L. Dong², S. N. Atluri³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 143-177, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2015.047.143

Abstract This paper is concerned with the development of new simple 4-noded locking-alleviated smart finite elements for modeling the smart composite beams. The exact solutions for the static responses of the overall smart composite beams are also derived for authenticating the new smart finite elements. The overall smart composite beam is composed of a laminated substrate conventional composite beam, and a piezoelectric layer attached at the top surface of the substrate beam. The piezoelectric layer acts as the actuator layer of the smart beam. Alternate finite element models of the beams, based on an “equivalent single… More >

S. Lentzen¹, R. Schmidt¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.6, No.4, pp. 201-206, 2008, DOI:10.3970/icces.2008.006.201

Abstract In the present work the significance of considering geometrical nonlinearity in the application of piezoelectric materials in order to improve the dynamic and stability characteristics of thin structures is shown. For the numerical investigations a finite shell element has been used which employs strain displacement relations based on the first-order shear deformation moderate rotation theory. An ANS formulation has been used to overcome membrane and shear locking. Two numerical examples are shown. The first example deals with increasing the critical buckling load by incorporating piezoelectric layers into the structure. In the second example the nonlinear More >

H. Nguyen-Van¹, N. Mai-Duy², T. Tran-Cong³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.23, No.3, pp. 209-222, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2008.023.209

Abstract This paper reports a study of linear elastic analysis of two-dimensional piezoelectric structures using a smoothed four-node piezoelectric element. The element is built by incorporating the strain smoothing method of mesh-free conforming nodal integration into the standard four-node quadrilateral piezoelectric finite element. The approximations of mechanical strains and electric potential fields are normalized using a constant smoothing function. This allows the field gradients to be directly computed from shape functions. No mapping or coordinate transformation is necessary so that the element can be used in arbitrary shapes. Through several examples, the simplicity, efficiency and reliability More >