%0 Journal Article
%T Reflection and Transmission Phenomena in Poroelastic Plate Sandwiched between Fluid Half Space and Porous Piezoelectric Half Space
%A Vishakha Gupta
%A Anil K. Vashishth
%J Smart Materials Research
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/767019
%X The reflection and transmission of elastic waves in porous piezoelectric plate, overlying a porous piezoelectric half space and underlying a fluid half space, is studied. The constitutive and governing equations are formulated for porous piezoelectric materials. The expressions for the mechanical displacements, electric displacements, stresses, and electric potentials are derived for porous piezoelectric plate, porous piezoelectric half space, and fluid half space. The boundary conditions are described for the studied model. The behaviour of reflected and transmitted amplitude ratios relative to frequency, incident angle, thickness, and porosity is observed numerically. The impedance mismatching problem between the dense piezoelectric materials and the surrounding medium can be solved by the inclusion of porosity in dense piezoceramics. 1. Introduction The field of smart materials (piezoelectric) has advanced rapidly due to an increasing awareness about capabilities of such materials, the development of new materials and transducer designs, and increasingly stringent design and control specifications in aerospace, aeronautics, industrial, automotive, biomedical, and nanosystems. Piezoelectric materials are brittle in nature which leads to the failure of devices. It is commonly found that 5% porosity exists in piezoelectric materials which are considered as manufacturing defects. Instead of considering it as a manufacturing defect, such materials can be modelled as porous piezoelectric materials. Porous piezoelectric materials are widely used in ultrasonic transducers, hydrophones, and pressure sensors. Porous ceramics are of interest for ultrasonic transducer applications. Porosity allows to decrease the acoustic impedance, thus improving transfer of acoustic energy to water or biological tissues. For underwater applications, the figure of merit can also be improved as compared to dense material. The surface impedance of porous piezoelectric materials is less as compared to dense piezoelectric materials. Alvarez-Arenas and De Espinosa [1] made a study related to characterization of porous piezoelectric ceramic. The experimental study on wave propagation in composite structures was done by Alvarez-Arenas et al. [2]. Different authors [3, 4] developed models related to synthesis, fabrication, and processing of porous piezoelectric materials. Kumar et al. [5] investigated the effects of porosity and pore forming agents in porous piezoceramics. The influence of piezoelectricity on the reflection-transmission phenomena in fluid-loaded piezoelectric half
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