... interpolation models which relate the mechanical/piezoelectrical properties of the material and the actuation voltage to the design variables are employed. Therein, power-law penalization functions are used to suppress intermediate values of both the material densities and the control voltage. The sensitivity...

... coefficient c 2 = link 2 damping coefficient c 4 = link 4 damping coefficient c 5 = link 5 damping coefficient c 6 = link 6 damping coefficient c 7 = link 7 damping coefficient c i = i th link damping coefficient d 33 = piezoelectric strain...

...D. Castagnetti Energy harvesting devices capable of converting freely-available ambient energy into electrical energy have received significant attention recently. Ambient kinetic energy is particularly attractive for conversion since it is almost ubiquitous and easily accessible. Piezoelectric...

...Oliver J. Myers; M. Anjanappa; C. Freidhoff This paper presents a methodology toward designing, analyzing, and optimizing piezoelectric interdigitated microactuators using multiphysics finite element analysis. The models used in this paper were based on a circularly interdigitated design that takes...

... a micromachined robust piezoelectric endoscopic tooth-like tactile sensor with a good linearity and a high dynamic range 10 11 . Bicchi et al. 2 have measured the compliance and viscoelastic property of tissue using a sensorized laparoscopic device by measuring the grasper force and its angular displacement...