Numerical characterization of piezoceramics using resonance curves

N Pérez, F Buiochi, MA Brizzotti Andrade… - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric materials characterization is a challenging problem involving physical
concepts, electrical and mechanical measurements and numerical optimization techniques …

Detection of flaws in piezoelectric structures using extended FEM

SS Nanthakumar, T Lahmer… - International Journal for …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An iterative method to treat the inverse problem of detecting cracks and voids in two‐
dimensional piezoelectric structures is proposed. The method involves solving the forward …

Detection of multiple flaws in piezoelectric structures using XFEM and level sets

SS Nanthakumar, T Lahmer, T Rabczuk - Computer Methods in applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
An iterative procedure to solve the inverse problem of detecting multiple voids in
piezoelectric structure is proposed. In each iteration the forward problem is solved for …

Inverse method to estimate material parameters for piezoceramic disc actuators

SJ Rupitsch, R Lerch - Applied Physics A, 2009 - Springer
A novel Inverse Method for the determination of material parameters characterizing discoidal
piezoceramic actuators is presented. In contrast to the common identification method, no …

Complete characterization of piezoceramic materials by means of two block-shaped test samples

SJ Rupitsch, J Ilg - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an approach enabling entire characterization of piezoceramic materials.
Contrary to the IEEE/CENELEC Standard on Piezoelectricity, which is commonly applied for …

Identification of elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric constants in piezoceramic disks

N Perez, MAB Andrade, F Buiochi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional modeling of piezoelectric devices requires a precise knowledge of
piezoelectric material parameters. The commonly used piezoelectric materials belong to the …

An isogeometric analysis to identify the full flexoelectric complex material properties based on electrical impedance curve

HV Do, T Lahmer, X Zhuang, N Alajlan… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a new approach to identify all material parameters of flexoelectric
materials based on electrical impedance curves. This approach combines an Isogeometric …

Modeling and measurement of creep-and rate-dependent hysteresis in ferroelectric actuators

F Wolf, A Sutor, SJ Rupitsch, R Lerch - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a new model for the simulation of the hysteretic large-signal behavior in
ferroelectric materials. The model is based on the Preisach operator and takes advantage of …

Ultrasound transducers based on ferroelectret materials

SJ Rupitsch, R Lerch, J Strobel… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ferroelectret materials can be utilized to set up electroacoustic transducers. The materials
offer both, a rather large bandwidth and a high piezoelectric strain constant. Due to its …

A FEM-based method to determine the complex material properties of piezoelectric disks

N Pérez, RC Carbonari, MAB Andrade, F Buiochi… - Ultrasonics, 2014 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations allow modeling piezoelectric devices and ultrasonic transducers.
However, the accuracy in the results is limited by the precise knowledge of the elastic …