Asymptotic behavior of piezoelectric plates

Thibaut Weller (1, 2) , Christian Licht (1, 2)

1 LMGC - Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil
2 M3 - Modélisation Mathématique en Mécanique

We extend to the linearly piezoelectric case the mathematical derivation of the linearly elastic behavior of a plate as the limit behavior of a three-dimensional solid whose thickness 2e tends to zero. Due to classical assumptions on the exterior loadings, a suitable scaling is defined by to study the limit behavior as e goes to 0. Note that the assumptions on the forces are those which provide Kirchhoff-Love limit plate theory while those on the electrical loading involve an index p running over 1, 2 that will imply two kinds of limit models according to the nature and the magnitude of the data. We show that the scaled states converge in a suitable topology to the unique solution of the limit problem indexed by p. These limit problems (p = 1 or 2) are connected with the physical situations where the thin plate acts as an actuator or a sensor.

Domaines: Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]

Thibaut Weller, Christian Licht. Asymptotic behavior of piezoelectric plates. XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Aug 2004, Varsovie, Poland. ⟨hal-01367515⟩