International Journal of Vehicle Structures and Systems

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Use of General Finite Elements for Smart Structures:Technical Note


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1 Aerostructures Group, Goodrich Aerospace Services Private Limited, Bangalore, India
     

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The focus of this technical note is to formulate and validate the process of thermal strain analogy for modelling structures with surface bonded piezoelectric actuators/sensors using any commercially available FEM codes.

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Piezoelectric, Thermal Strain, Finite Element, Smart Structures, Micro-Robot.
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K. Badari Narayana
Aerostructures Group, Goodrich Aerospace Services Private Limited, Bangalore, India

Abstract


The focus of this technical note is to formulate and validate the process of thermal strain analogy for modelling structures with surface bonded piezoelectric actuators/sensors using any commercially available FEM codes.

Keywords


Piezoelectric, Thermal Strain, Finite Element, Smart Structures, Micro-Robot.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.4273/ijvss.3.4.06