A numerical analysis of forced steady-state vibrations of an electro-viscoelastic system in case of a joint impact of electrical and mechanical loads

In the current paper an estimation of a mechanical response of a structure on joint mechanical (force and kinematic) and electrical (voltage and current) impacts taking into account different options of their combinations was carried out. A mechanical response was esteemed basing on solution to the problem of natural vibrations for piecewise-homogeneous electro-viscoelastic bodies. A cantilever plate with piezoelectric element attached to its surface was chosen as an object under study. The plate was made of viscoelastic material the mechanical properties of which are described using complex dynamic moduli. A piezoelectric ceramic material was chosen as the one for piezoelectric elements. An amplitude of forced steady-state vibrations of a component of displacement vector that is perpendicular to the surface of the plate was chosen as a quantity that characterize a mechanical response. Variational equation of motion of the object under consideration is formulated based on relations of linear elasticity, linear viscoelasticity and Maxwell’s equations for a conducting media in a quasistatic approximation. Ranges of changing of values of excitation impacts for vibration modes taken into account were chosen on the basis of values of natural vibrations frequencies obtained from the solution to natural vibration problem for electro-viscoelastic bodies. Numerical implementation of the stated problem was performed in finite element software package ANSYS. Some characteristic peculiarities of a mechanical response depending on a type and magnitude of external impact were obtained as the result of the carried out numerical experiments. There was demonstrated that in case of joint impact of two loading factors there reveals an additional capability of control a mechanical response of an electro-viscoelastic system.