Predictive Modeling of Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors Interaction with High-frequency Structural Waves and Vibration

Author(s)

Victor Giurgiutiu, University of South Carolina - ColumbiaFollow
M Gresil
B Lin
A Cuc
Y Shen
C Roman

Document Type

Article

Subject Area(s)

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The modeling of the interaction between piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) and structural waves and vibration is addressed. Three main issues are discussed: (a) modeling of pitch-catch ultrasonic waves between a PWAS transmitter and a PWAS receiver by comparison between exact Lamb wave solutions and various finite element method (FEM) results; (b) analytical modeling of the power and energy transduction between PWAS and ultrasonic guided waves highlighting the tuning opportunities between PWAS and the waves; (c) the use of the transfer matrix method to model the electromechanical (E/M) impedance method for direct reading of high-frequency local structural vibration and comparison with FEM results. The paper ends with a summary and conclusions followed by recommendations for further work.

Publication Info

Postprint version. Published in Acta Mechanica, Volume 223, Issue 8, 2012, pages 1681-1691.

Rights

© Acta Mechanica, 2012, Springer Verlag

Giurgiutiu, V, Gresil, M, Lin, B, Cuc, A, Shen, Y, Roman, C. (2012). Predictive Modeling of Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors Interaction with High-frequency Structural Waves and Vibration. Acta Mechanica, 223(8), 1681-1691

dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-012-0633-0