A study on the effect of piezoelectric nonlinearity on the bending behaviour of smart laminated composite beam

• Main Authors: Akhlaq, Adnan, Shaik Dawood, Mohd. Sultan Ibrahim, Jaffar Syed, Mohamed Ali, Sulaeman, Erwin
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: MDPI 2023
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery; TJ170 Mechanics applied to machinery. Dynamics; TJ181 Mechanical movements
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/104390/2/104390_A%20study%20on%20the%20effect.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104390/3/104390_A%20study%20on%20the%20effect_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104390/; https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/16/7/2839
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

This paper presents a finite element analysis to model and analyze composite laminated beams with distributed piezoelectric actuators attached to the top and bottom surfaces considering nonlinear constitutive equations under a high electric field. The static response is presented for piezoelectri...