Structural-Electrical-Coupled Formulation for the Free Vibration of a Piezoelectric-Laminated Plate Using the Analytical Arbitrary Quadrilateral p Element

Figure 5

The 3 meshes adopted for the 10 mm aluminum trapezoidal plates with 1 mm PZT-5H layers perfectly bonded on both the upper and lower surfaces having various boundary conditions (the number of Fourier terms: 𝑝=𝑞=5, 𝐿_𝑎=0.1m).

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