Recent Developments in Piezothermoelasticity: Inverse Problems Relevant to Smart Structures

摘要

Reference is made to investigations by various authors dealing with piezothermoelastic response of beams, plates, shells and adaptive structural systems. The emphasis of this paper is , however, directed at solutions to inverse problems considered by the present authors during the past few years. A solution procedure based on displacement and electric potentials is reviewed, and the determination of unknown thermal loadings inferred from prescribed electric potential differences is illustrated for a number of cases.