Study on the 3D Green’s functions of the fluid and piezoelectric bimaterials

• DOI: 10.1016/j.taml.2017.03.002
• Publication Date: 2017-03-18T14:32:54Z
• Authors: Pengfei Hou; Ke Yuan; Bingjie Chen
• Keywords: 0203 mechanical engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Abstract Because most piezoelectric devices have interfaces with fluid in engineering, it is valuable to study the coupled field between fluid and piezoelectric media. As the fundamental problem, the 3D Green’s functions for point forces and point charge loaded in the fluid and piezoelectric bimaterials are studied in this paper. Based on the 3D general solutions expressed by harmonic functions, we constructed the suitable harmonic functions with undetermined constants at first. Then, the couple field in the fluid and piezoelectric bimaterials can be derived by substitution of harmonic functions into general solutions. These constants can be obtained by virtue of the compatibility, boundary, and equilibrium conditions. At last, the characteristics of the electromechanical coupled fields are shown by numerical results.