Analysis of Piezoelectric Structures and Devices

Content: Chapter 1 Non-uniform Actuations of Plates and Shells with Piezoelectric and Photostrictive Skew-quad Actuator Designs
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 New SQ actuator system
 1.2.1 The distribution profile of induced non-uniform forces and moments
 1.2.2 Design of an SQ actuator system
 1.3 Plate control with a piezoelectric SQ actuator system
 1.3.1 Non-uniform forces and moments induced by the SQ actuator system
 1.3.2 Modal control
 1.3.3 Case studies: control of plates
 1.3.4 Closed-loop actuation with collocated sensors and actuators. 1.3.5 Summary of non-uniform piezoelectric actuations of plates1.4 Cylindrical shell control with photostrictive SQ actuator systems
 1.4.1 Uniform and non-uniform photostrictive actuation
 1.4.2 Photostrictive SQ actuator
 1.4.3 Modal control
 1.4.4 Case studies: photostrictive actuation of shells
 1.4.5 Closed-loop actuation with paired SQ actuator systems
 1.4.6 Summary of non-uniform photostrictive actuations of shells
 1.5 Summary
 References
 Appendix
 Chapter 2 Structural Theories of Multiferroic Plates and Shells
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Basic formulations. 2.3 Laminated multiferroic shell equations in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates2.4 Equations of first-order theory for laminated multiferroic shells
 2.5 Equations for flat plates and cylindrical/spherical shells
 2.5.1 Flat plates
 2.5.2 Cylindrical shells
 2.5.3 Spherical shells
 2.6 Applications: evaluation of magnetoelectric effects
 2.6.1 Magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic bilayers
 2.6.2 Magnetoelectric effect of multiferroic spherical shell laminates
 2.7 Summary
 References
 Appendix
 Chapter 3 Piezoelectric Power/Energy Harvesters
 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Basic structure of a piezoelectric power/energy harvester3.3 Piezoelectric power harvesters
 3.3.1 The related researches on piezoelectric power harvesters
 3.3.2 Coupling analysis of piezoelectric power harvesters
 3.3.3 Numerical results
 3.3.4 Investigation on frequency shift of piezoelectric power harvesters
 3.3.5 Broadband design of piezoelectric power harvesters
 3.4 Piezoelectric energy harvesters
 3.4.1 Component portions of piezoelectric energy harvesters
 3.4.2 Integrated analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesters
 3.4.3 Numerical results
 References. Chapter 4 A Two-dimensional Analysis of Surface Acoustic Waves in Finite Piezoelectric Plates4.1 Introduction
 4.2 A two-dimensional analysis of surface acoustic waves in finite isotropic elastic plates
 4.2.1 Surface acoustic waves in an infinite isotropic elastic plate
 4.2.2 Two-dimensional equations for finite isotropic elastic plate
 4.2.3 Conclusions
 4.3 A two-dimensional analysis of surface acoustic waves in finite anisotropic elastic plates
 4.3.1 Surface acoustic waves in semi-infinite anisotropic solids
 4.3.2 Two-dimensional equations for finite anisotropic elastic plates.