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The paper examines the weakly nonlinear behavior of a 5-layer beam-like piezoelectric transformer operating near resonance, where the main structure of the device consists of properly poled and electroded flexible piezoceramic four-layers separated by a central metallic layer. Nonlinear effects of the large deflection to induce the incidental in-plane extension near resonance are considered, which is shown that on one side of the resonant frequency the output-input relation becomes nonlinear, and the other side output voltage experiences jumps.
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Wang, H., Xie, X., Hu, Y. et al. Nonlinear Analysis of a 5-Layer Beam-Like Piezoelectric Transformer Near Resonance. Acta Mech. Solida Sin. 27, 195–201 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0894-9166(14)60029-X
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