Optimum placement of piezoelectric material in piezoactuator design

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 207-220

  Carbonari, Ronny C ^a   Silva, Emílio C N ^a   Nishiwaki, Shinji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; OUTPUT FORCES; PIEZOACTUATOR DESIGN; PIEZOCERAMICS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 33947694381     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/1/025     Document Type: Article

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