Investigated by this study is an MFC actuator attached to the surface of a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP)composite beam to form a beam actuator system.Analytically capturing the characteristics of such system i...Investigated by this study is an MFC actuator attached to the surface of a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP)composite beam to form a beam actuator system.Analytically capturing the characteristics of such system is essential.A novel analytical methodology considering the transverse shear strain and active stiffening effect is proposed,which was newly applied to analyze the static and dynamic behaviors of the beam actuator system.The governing equations of the beam actuator system were obtained via generalized Hamilton’s principle.A distributed transfer function formulation was developed.Then,the closed form solution was derived by using the Green’s function.Frequency response,natural frequencies,and modal shapes of the beam actuator system were obtained.The solution is analytical without using any truncated series or admissible functions at any arbitrary boundary conditions.Finite Element Method(FEM)results were also obtained to compare with that of the proposed method.The predictions of the analyses were verified experimentally,which shows the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
The microstructure polymer optical fibre (mPOF) inscribed long period grating (LPG) offers a wide field of application in strain sensors arena within the materials elastic limit. Flexible innovative macro fibre compos...The microstructure polymer optical fibre (mPOF) inscribed long period grating (LPG) offers a wide field of application in strain sensors arena within the materials elastic limit. Flexible innovative macro fibre composite (MFC) actuator generates electromechanical force under DC driving voltage. We propose a novel method for Bragg wavelength blue shifting through stretch tuning of mPOF LPG in axial direction under applied DC voltage on attached MFC with LPG. The grating period of mPOF LPG changes refractive index and causes blue shift of Bragg grating fibre wavelength. The shifting governs on the values of generated electromechanically strain transfer from flexible MFC to mPOF LPG and they have potential applications in strain sensor.展开更多
文摘Investigated by this study is an MFC actuator attached to the surface of a Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP)composite beam to form a beam actuator system.Analytically capturing the characteristics of such system is essential.A novel analytical methodology considering the transverse shear strain and active stiffening effect is proposed,which was newly applied to analyze the static and dynamic behaviors of the beam actuator system.The governing equations of the beam actuator system were obtained via generalized Hamilton’s principle.A distributed transfer function formulation was developed.Then,the closed form solution was derived by using the Green’s function.Frequency response,natural frequencies,and modal shapes of the beam actuator system were obtained.The solution is analytical without using any truncated series or admissible functions at any arbitrary boundary conditions.Finite Element Method(FEM)results were also obtained to compare with that of the proposed method.The predictions of the analyses were verified experimentally,which shows the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘The microstructure polymer optical fibre (mPOF) inscribed long period grating (LPG) offers a wide field of application in strain sensors arena within the materials elastic limit. Flexible innovative macro fibre composite (MFC) actuator generates electromechanical force under DC driving voltage. We propose a novel method for Bragg wavelength blue shifting through stretch tuning of mPOF LPG in axial direction under applied DC voltage on attached MFC with LPG. The grating period of mPOF LPG changes refractive index and causes blue shift of Bragg grating fibre wavelength. The shifting governs on the values of generated electromechanically strain transfer from flexible MFC to mPOF LPG and they have potential applications in strain sensor.
