Bifurcation Analysis of Piezoelectric Bi-Stable Plates

The complex nonlinear dynamic behaviors of the composite bi-stable plates with piezoelectric patch are analyzed. Based on the Vo n Karman hypothesis and Hamilton’s principle, the nonlinear dynamic model is derived. Temperature and piezoelectric effect are also considered in the model. Numerical simulations are performed to study the nonlinear vibration response of the composite bi-stable plate using the Runge-Kutta method. The analysis of the phase portrait, waveforms and bifurcation diagrams of numerical simulations shows that the period, multi-period and chaotic responses can be observed with the variation of the excitation in frequency and amplitude.Copyright © 2014 by ASME