Elastic wave harvesting in piezoelectric-defect-introduced phononic crystal microplates

Z He, G Zhang, X Chen, Y Cong, S Gu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The localization of elastic wave at defect in phononic crystals (PnCs) has been applied to
design piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) devices. However, the earlier researches …

Novel cross shape phononic crystals with broadband vibration wave attenuation characteristic: Design, modeling and testing

E Panahi, A Hosseinkhani, MF Khansanami… - Thin-Walled …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, elastic wave dispersion characteristics of two novel unit-cells are numerically
and experimentally studied. Based on Bloch's theorem for infinite cellular structures, the …

Investigation of size effect on band structure of 2D nano-scale phononic crystal based on nonlocal strain gradient theory

J **, N Hu, H Hu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Phononic crystal (PnC) has attracted strong attention due to its tremendous capabilities to
manipulate acoustic and elastodynamic waves. For high frequency (gigahertz) PnC, the size …

Active/passive tuning of wave propagation in phononic microbeams via piezoelectric patches

S Sepehri, MM Mashhadi, MMS Fakhrabadi - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, size-dependent microbeams made of functionally graded materials (FGMs)
with periodic arrays of auxiliary piezoelectric springs are considered small-sized phononic …

Conventional and star-shaped auxetic materials for the creation of band gaps

PI Koutsianitis, GK Tairidis, GA Drosopoulos… - Archive of Applied …, 2019 - Springer
A band gap region, or simply a band gap, is a range of frequencies where vibrations of
certain frequency ranges are isolated. In the present paper, such ranges are sought through …

[HTML][HTML] Band gaps for wave propagation in 2-D periodic three-phase composites with coated star-shaped inclusions and an orthotropic matrix

GY Zhang, XL Gao - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
A new model for determining band gaps for wave propagation in two-dimensional (2-D)
periodic three-phase composites containing coated star-shaped inclusions and an …

Band structure analysis of Green-Naghdi-based thermoelastic wave propagation in cylindrical phononic crystals with energy dissipation using a meshless collocation …

SM Hosseini, C Zhang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a meshless collocation method based on the generalized finite difference
(GFD) method is employed for the band structure analysis of thermoelastic waves …

Bandgap and its defect band analysis of flexoelectric effect in phononic crystal plates

G Zhang, X Gao, S Wang, J Hong - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The wave equations of a novel model for the electro-elastic Kirchhoff plate containing the
flexoelectric effect are constructed using a variational formulation. Through an Improved …

Elastic wave propagation in 3-D periodic composites: band gaps incorporating microstructure effects

GY Zhang, XL Gao - Composite Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
A new model for determining band gaps for elastic wave propagation in three-dimensional
(3-D) periodic two-phase composites is developed using a modified couple stress theory …

A non-classical couple stress based Mindlin plate finite element framework for tuning band gaps of periodic composite micro plates

ZX **a, GY Zhang, Y Cong, ST Gu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Composite micro plates with periodic microstructure at very small length scale have been a
focus of intensive research. When length scale of the microstructure descends below …