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Large-scale actuating performance analysis of a composite curved piezoelectric actuator

Soon Wan Chung1, In Seong Hwang and Seung Jo Kim2

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In this paper, the electromechanical displacements of curved piezoelectric actuators composed of PZT ceramic and laminated composite materials are calculated on the basis of high performance computing technology and the optimal configuration of the composite curved actuator is examined. To accurately predict the local pre-stress in the device due to the mismatch in the coefficients of thermal expansion, carbon/epoxy and glass/epoxy as well as PZT ceramic are numerically modelled by using hexahedral solid elements. Because the modeling of these thin layers increases the number of degrees of freedom, large-scale structural analyses are performed using the PEGASUS supercomputer, which is installed in our laboratory. In the first stage, the curved shape of the actuator and the internal stress in each layer are obtained by cured curvature analysis. Subsequently, the displacement due to the piezoelectric force (which results from the applied voltage) is also calculated. The performance of the composite curved actuator is investigated by comparing the displacements obtained by variation of the thickness and the elastic modulus of laminated composite layers. In order to consider the finite deformation in the first stage of the analysis and include the pre-stress due to the curing process in the second stage, nonlinear finite element analyses are carried out.


PACS

85.50.-n Dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric devices

02.70.Dh Finite-element and Galerkin methods

77.84.Lf Composite materials

81.40.Jj Elasticity and anelasticity, stress-strain relations

81.05.Je Ceramics and refractories (including borides, carbides, hydrides, nitrides, oxides, and silicides)

Subjects

Computational physics

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Electronics and devices

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 1 (February 2006)

Received 3 March 2005, in final form 13 October 2005

Published 19 January 2006



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