ravitejakumar
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- Mar 25, 2014
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Hi there,
I am using ABAQUS (6.10.2) to study the structural deformation of piezoelectric structure. In general we excite the piezo-material by applying a voltage across its surface , however when I try to do so through a gold electrode ( plate with a minute thickness) on a Quartz component. I am not able to excite the structure.
I have specified the material properties (Dielectric, Density, Elastic, Piezo Electric) for Quartz and (elestic, Density) for gold and tie the gold plate to the quartz plate with node to node connectivity. Since I am only interested in the electrical analysis, what element type do I use for gold and how can I couple the 2 materials to electrically excite?
For Solid elements, I have Specified C3D8E.
As per the Abaqus help, we can use the shell elements also (piezo plain strain elements) as CPE4E which i would like to apply for Gold. But I didn't find any piezo element type for Shell elements.
I have imported mesh from Hypermesh.
Thanks in Advace
I am using ABAQUS (6.10.2) to study the structural deformation of piezoelectric structure. In general we excite the piezo-material by applying a voltage across its surface , however when I try to do so through a gold electrode ( plate with a minute thickness) on a Quartz component. I am not able to excite the structure.
I have specified the material properties (Dielectric, Density, Elastic, Piezo Electric) for Quartz and (elestic, Density) for gold and tie the gold plate to the quartz plate with node to node connectivity. Since I am only interested in the electrical analysis, what element type do I use for gold and how can I couple the 2 materials to electrically excite?
For Solid elements, I have Specified C3D8E.
As per the Abaqus help, we can use the shell elements also (piezo plain strain elements) as CPE4E which i would like to apply for Gold. But I didn't find any piezo element type for Shell elements.
I have imported mesh from Hypermesh.
Thanks in Advace