Abstract
A wide range of non-linear effects are observed in piezoceramic materials. For small stresses and weak electric fields, piezoceramics are usually described by linearized constitutive equations around an operating point. However, typical non-linear vibration behavior is observed at weak electric fields near resonance frequency excitations of the piezoceramics. This non-linear behavior is observed in terms of a softening behavior and the decrease of normalized amplitude response with increase in excitation voltage. In this paper the authors have attempted to model this behavior using higher order cubic conservative and non-conservative terms in the constitutive equations. Two-dimensional kinematic relations are assumed, which satisfy the considered reduced set of constitutive relations. Hamilton's principle for the piezoelectric material is applied to obtain the non-linear equation of motion of the piezoceramic rectangular parallelepiped specimen, and the Ritz method is used to discretize it. The resulting equation of motion is solved using a perturbation technique. Linear and non-linear parameters for the model are identified. The results from the theoretical model and the experiments are compared. The non-linear effects described in this paper may have strong influence on the design of the devices, e.g. ultrasonic motors, which utilize the piezoceramics near the resonance frequency excitation.
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