Saint-Venant torsion of orthotropic piezoelectric elliptical bar

The object of this paper is the Saint-Venant torsion of a solid elliptical cylinder made of orthotropic homogeneous piezoelectric material. We find the shape of the homogeneous orthotropic piezoelectric elliptical cross section which does not warp under the applied torque. The sizes of the orthotropic piezoelectric solid elliptical cross section, which has the maximum value of torsional rigidity for a given cross-sectional area, are also determined.

A boundary value problem of orthotropic electroelastic circular cylinder

A boundary value problem of orthotropic piezoelectric solid circular cylinder which is in the state of antiplane shear deformation is studied. The whole boundary surface is loaded by an equilibrium axial traction. This paper gives an analytical solution of the considered antiplane shear deformation.

Effects of antiferroelectric substitution on the structure and ferroelectric properties of a complex perovskite solid solution

Novel ferro-/piezoelectric solid solutions between bismuth-based perovskite and antiferroelectric material are designed and synthesized and their crystal structure, phase transitions, ferro-/piezoelectric properties and local polar structure are investigated.

Modeling and analysis of spiral actuators by exact geometry piezoelectric solid-shell elements

An exact geometry four-node piezoelectric solid-shell element through the sampling surfaces formulation is proposed. The sampling surfaces formulation is based on choosing inside the shell N – 2 sampling surfaces parallel to the middle surface and located at Chebyshev polynomial nodes to introduce the displacements and electric potentials of these surfaces as fundamental shell unknowns. The bottom and top surfaces are also included into a set of sampling surfaces. Such choice of unknowns with the use of Lagrange polynomials of degree N – 1 in the through-the-thickness interpolations of displacements, strains, electric potential, and electric field yields a robust piezoelectric shell formulation. To implement efficient analytical integration throughout the solid-shell element, the extended assumed natural strain method is employed. The developed hybrid-mixed four-node piezoelectric solid-shell element is based on the Hu-Washizu variational principle and shows the excellent performance for coarse mesh configurations. It can be useful for the 3D stress analysis of piezoelectric shells with variable curvatures, in particular for the modeling and analysis of spiral actuators.

Effectivity of Piezoelectric Transition Elements in Modelling of Electro-Mechanical Systems

The paper presents the coupled electro-mechanical problem. In the numerical analysis of the issue, piezoelectric solid-to-shell transition elements were applied. They combine three-dimensional or hierarchical shell piezoelectric elements with piezoelectric first order elements. The mentioned first order of the element refers to the field of transversal displacements of an element. The mechanical field of the discussed piezoelectric elements may correspond to: the model of three-dimensional theory of elasticity, hierarchical shell models of higher orders or the first order shell model. The electrical field of the potential may be modelled with hierarchical dielectric first order models or higher in transverse direction or with a three-dimensional theory. Effectiveness of modification of algorithms of classical piezoelectric elements was assessed in this paper. To perform such an assessment, curves of convergence of hp method in model tasks are presented. Curves obtained with the use of classical and modified piezoelectric transition elements were set and compared.