TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling of PZT-5H T-beam actuators for nano air vehicle flapping wing mechanisms
AU - Mateti, Kiron
AU - Tadigadapa, Srinivas A.
AU - Rahn, Christopher D.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This work presents static and dynamic testing and modeling of PZT-5H T-beam actuators. The T-beam boundary condition include the effects of imperfect clamping. Nonlinear effects on the electromechanical properties of soft PZT under strong fields are considered. Analytical models of static displacement and blocking force and the frequency response function including strain rate damping are derived and validated with experimental results. The experimentally tested 1 mm thick and 2 cm long T-beam produced 46 mm of tip displacement, 5.6 mN of blocking force, and had a primary resonance of 1.42 kHz.
AB - This work presents static and dynamic testing and modeling of PZT-5H T-beam actuators. The T-beam boundary condition include the effects of imperfect clamping. Nonlinear effects on the electromechanical properties of soft PZT under strong fields are considered. Analytical models of static displacement and blocking force and the frequency response function including strain rate damping are derived and validated with experimental results. The experimentally tested 1 mm thick and 2 cm long T-beam produced 46 mm of tip displacement, 5.6 mN of blocking force, and had a primary resonance of 1.42 kHz.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871318363
SN - 9781622763184
T3 - 21st International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies 2010, ICAST 2010
SP - 204
EP - 209
BT - 21st International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies 2010, ICAST 2010
T2 - 21st International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies 2010, ICAST 2010
Y2 - 4 October 2010 through 6 October 2010
ER -