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Optimal Design of Piezoelectric Modal Transducers

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Piezoelectric materials are those having the ability to convert electrical energy into mechanical one, and vice versa. Often surface bonded to structures, they are commonly used for sensing, acting and even for reducing noise and structural vibrations as part of active control systems. And, further, they can isolate specific mode shapes of structures when working as spatial filters in the frequency domain (i.e. modal transducers) by shaping properly the piezoelectric layers. This article is intended to revise that concept, initially conceived for beam-type structures only, and explain how it has been extended to plates and shells by means of optimization techniques.

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Authors would like to thank the kind invitation from ARCME Editors-in-Chief to write this survey paper. Authors acknowledge financial support form the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad through Grant MTM2013-47053-P, the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha and the European Fund for Regional Development through Grant PEII-2014-010-P.

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Ruiz, D., Bellido, J.C. & Donoso, A. Optimal Design of Piezoelectric Modal Transducers. Arch Computat Methods Eng 25, 313–347 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-016-9200-5

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