Daisuke Ishihara^1,*, Prakasha Chigahalli Ramegowda², Shoichi Aikawa¹, Naoki Iwamaru¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1187-1206, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024614 - 06 February 2023

Abstract This paper demonstrates the importance of three-dimensional (3-D) piezoelectric coupling in the electromechanical behavior of piezoelectric devices using three-dimensional finite element analyses based on weak and strong coupling models for a thin cantilevered piezoelectric bimorph actuator. It is found that there is a significant difference between the strong and weak coupling solutions given by coupling direct and inverse piezoelectric effects (i.e., piezoelectric coupling effect). In addition, there is significant longitudinal bending caused by the constraint of the inverse piezoelectric effect in the width direction at the fixed end (i.e., 3-D effect). Hence, modeling of these More >

R. Springhetti¹, G. Novati¹, M. Margonari²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.13, No.1, pp. 67-80, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.013.067

Abstract With reference to potential and elastostatic problems, a BEM-FEM coupling procedure, based on the symmetric Galerkin version of the BEM, is developed; the continuity conditions at the interface of the BE and FE subdomains are enforced in weak form; the global linear system is characterized by a symmetric coefficient matrix. The procedure is numerically tested with reference first to 2D potential problems and successively to 3D elastoplastic problems (with plastic strains confined to the FE subdomain). More >