Static Study of Piezoelectric Bimorph Beams with Delamination Zone

The FOSDT (the First Order Shear Deformation
Theory) is taking into consideration to study the static behavior of a
bimorph beam, with a delamination zone between the upper and the
lower layer. The effect of limit conditions and lengths of the
delamination zone are presented in this paper, with a PVDF
piezoelectric material application. A FEM “Finite Element Method”
is used to discretize the beam. In the axial displacement, a
displacement field appears in the debonded zone with inverse effect
between the upper and the lower layer was observed.

• A. Zemirline
• M. Ouali
• A. Mahieddine

• Beam
• Delamination
• Piezoelectricity
• Static.

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