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Solid-Solid Coupling using Piezoelectric Devices and Solid Mechanics
Posted 1 mag 2015, 14:21 GMT-4 Structural Mechanics Version 4.4 0 Replies
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I am trying to model a piezoelectric transducer coupled to a linear elastic solid. I know it is pretty straight forward to do this just by using the Piezoelectric Devices physics module, however that module does not have the low reflecting boundary condition which I want to utilize. Therefore I would like the model the transducer with the Piezoelectric Devices module and the loading solid with the Solid Mechanics module. My question is that how do I couple these physics?
For fluid-solid interaction, adding a boundary load to the solid domain at the interface with value of pressure in fluid and normal acceleration in the fluid domain with the value of the acceleration of the solid does the trick. For solid-solid interaction my instinct says I should define a prescribed displacement in each solid domain, using the displacements of each domain, but I'm not sure.
Best,
Sarp
Hello Sarp Satir
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