Behaviour of a unimorph circular piezoelectric actuator

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1094-1102

  Mo, Changki ^a   Wright, Rika ^b   Slaughter, William S ^b   Clark, William W ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLAMPING DEVICES; CORRELATION THEORY; DIAPHRAGMS; ELECTRIC LOADS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRICAL LOADING; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; PIEZOELECTRIC DIAPHRAGM ACTUATORS; TRANSVERSE DEFLECTION;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33746320723     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/4/023     Document Type: Article

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