Soon Wan Chung et al 2006 Smart Mater. Struct. 15 213 doi:10.1088/0964-1726/15/1/051
Soon Wan Chung1, In Seong Hwang and Seung Jo Kim2
Show affiliationsIn 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.
85.50.-n Dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric devices
02.70.Dh Finite-element and Galerkin methods
81.40.Jj Elasticity and anelasticity, stress-strain relations
Issue 1 (February 2006)
Received 3 March 2005, in final form 13 October 2005
Published 19 January 2006
Soon Wan Chung et al 2006 Smart Mater. Struct. 15 213
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