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Design of piezoelectric modal filters by simultaneously optimizing the structure layout and the electrode profile

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Modal transducers can be designed by optimizing the polarity of the electrode which covers the piezoelectric layers bonded to the host structure. This paper is intended as a continuation of our previous work (Donoso and Bellido J Appl Mech 57:434–441, 2009a) to make better the performance of such piezoelectric devices by simultaneously optimizing the structure layout and the electrode profile. As the host structure is not longer fixed, the typical drawbacks in eigenproblem optimization such as spurious modes, mode tracking and switching or repeated eigenvalues soon appear. Further, our model has the novel issue that both cost and constraints explicitly depend on mode shapes. Moreover, due to the physics of the problem, the appearance of large gray areas is another pitfall to be solved. Our proposed approach overcomes all these difficulties with success and let obtain nearly 0-1 designs that improve the existing optimal electrode profiles over a homogeneous plate.

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This work has been supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) through grant MTM2013-47053-P, and Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and the European Fund for Regional Development through grant PEII-2014-010-P. We would like to thank J.L. Sánchez-Rojas for several discussions on the model subject of this paper.

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Ruiz, D., Bellido, J.C. & Donoso, A. Design of piezoelectric modal filters by simultaneously optimizing the structure layout and the electrode profile. Struct Multidisc Optim 53, 715–730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-015-1354-5

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