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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 12, Number 5, November 2001 , pages 491-506
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2001.12.5.491
 


A new piezoelectric shell element and its application in static shape control
Su Huan Chen, Guo Feng Yao and Hua Dong Lian (China)

 
Abstract
    In this paper, a new three-dimensional piezoelectric thin shell element containing an
integrated distributed piezoelectric sensor and actuator is proposed. The distributed piezoelectric sensor
layer monitors the structural shape deformation due to the direct effect and the distributed actuator layer
suppresses the deflection via the converse piezoelectric effect. A finite element formulation is presented
for static response of laminated shell with piezoelectric sensors/actuators. An eight-node and forty-DOF
shell element is built. The performance of the shell elements is improved by reduced integration
technique. The static shape control of structure is derived. The shell element is verified by calculating
piezoelectric polymeric PVDF bimorph beam. The results agreed with those obtained by theoretical
analysis, Tzou and Tseng (1990) and Hwang and Park (1993) fairly well. At last, the static shape control
of a paraboloidal antenna is presented.
 
Key Words
    piezoelectric shell element; static shape control.
 
Address
Su Huan Chen, Guo Feng Yao and Hua Dong Lian, Department of Mechanics, Jilin University, Nan-Ling Campus, Chang Chun, Jilin 130025, China
 

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