Static shape control of laminated plate containing piezoelectric patches

By applying the Heaviside function,the equations governing laminated plates possess-ing spatially distributed piezoelectric patches have been established.Based on these equations,staticshape control of laminated plates is discussed.By using a genetic and collocation algorithm,the opti-mal locations and scales of these piezoelectric patches have been selected.Numerical examples are pre-sented to illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm and the piezoelectric actuators.