We study the technique to adjust the performance of a piezoelectric bimorph vibrating in the
flexural mode through axial preloads, which is useful for a power harvester to effectively …

Implementing piezoelectric materials as actuators, vibrators, resonators, and transducers
requires the availability of a properties database and scaling laws to allow the actuator or …

A new type of radially sandwiched piezoelectric short cylindrical transducer is developed
and its radial vibration is studied. The transducer is composed of a solid metal disk, a …

Electromechanical behavior of a three-layered piezoelectric bimorph beam is represented
by an electrically equivalent circuit with impedance elements. Each impedance is …

In this work, we proposed an effective way to fabricate a tangentially polarized composite
cylindrical transducer with high electro-mechanical coupling coefficient (EMCC) by radially …

An eight-port impedance matrix and an equivalent circuit are presented for the analysis of an
asymmetric triple-layered piezoelectric bimorph with separate electrical ports. The separate …

The radially composite piezoelectric tubular transducer is studied. It is composed of radially
poled piezoelectric and a long metal tube. The electro-mechanical equivalent circuit of the …

An eigenfunction approach is presented to determine the response of radially polarized
piezoelectric cylindrical shells of finite length to electrical excitation. The equations of motion …

Based on the theory of plane strain problem, the radial vibration of the radially poled
piezoelectric ceramic long tubes with arbitrary wall thickness is studied. The exact analytical …

A piezoelectric thin shell theoretical model of radially polarized ceramic cylinders is first
developed. An eigenfunction approach is then used to determine the displacement, stress …