Development of piezoelectric fans for flapping wing application

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 136-142

  Chung, Hsien Chun ^a   Kummari, K Lal ^a   Croucher, S J ^a   Lawson, N J ^a   Guo, S ^a   Whatmore, R W ^b   Huang, Z ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cantilever; FEM; MAV; Optimization; Piezoelectric fan; Resonance

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FANS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE;

ANALYTICAL METHODS; AT RESONANCES; CANTILEVER; DYNAMIC OPERATIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; ENERGY TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FEM; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FLAPPING WINGS; LARGE DEFLECTIONS; MAV; OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIONS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PIEZOELECTRIC FAN; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC UNIMORPH; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; THICKNESS RATIOS; TIP DEFLECTIONS; VIBRATION AMPLITUDES;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 58149185184     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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