Electromechanical modelling of piezoelectrically actuated MEMS tunable lenses with geometric nonlinearity

Author(s):  
Mahmoud A. Farghaly ◽  
Vladimir Kartashov ◽  
Muhammad Nadeem Akram ◽  
Einar Halvorsen

This article presents a variational model for the geometrically nonlinear behaviour of the piezoelectrically actuated MEMS tunable lenses. Residual stresses during fabrication and larger actuation voltages cause large deflections such that a linear model would provide less accurate approximation. This presses the need for a nonlinear model that can explain the softening and hardening effects exhibited by the lens during its operation and affect its optical performance. Thus, in the view of von Kármán’s plate theory, the presented nonlinear model predicts the lens displacement after solving a cubic nonlinear system of equations. The chosen displacement ansatz fits the problem under study by satisfying the mechanical boundary conditions, and simplifying calculation of the variational integrals and optical representation of the lens’ sag. The model also shows good agreement with FEM simulations over various combinations of tensile and compressive residual stresses. Moreover, it succeeds in fitting measurements when used in a constrained optimization scheme in which the layers’ residual stresses and the e-form piezoelectric coupling coefficient are the fitting parameters.

Author(s):  
S. Hossain ◽  
C. E. Truman ◽  
D. J. Smith ◽  
M. R. Daymond

This paper presents results from an experimental and numerical study examining the creation of highly triaxial residual stresses in stainless steel. This was motivated by a need to model and understand creep in aged power plant. The residual stresses were introduced by rapid spray water quenching of heated solid stainless steel spheres and cylinders. Finite element (FE) simulations predicted high compressive residual stresses around the surface of the specimens and tensile residual stresses near the centre. Surface residual stresses were measured using the incremental centre-hole drilling (ICHD) technique. Neutron diffraction (ND) was used to measure the interior residual stresses. The measurements were in good agreement with FE predictions. The ND measurements confirmed that a highly triaxial residual stress state existed in the core of the specimens.


2014 ◽  
Vol 996 ◽  
pp. 586-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pål Schmidt ◽  
Lin Peng Ru ◽  
Vadim Davydov ◽  
Mattias Lundberg ◽  
Maqsood Ahmad ◽  
...  

Stress harps with bars of different size were used to study residual stresses due to different cooling rate during casting of a grey iron. Finite element (FE) simulations were performed to predict residual stresses from the casting process and the effect of a stress relieving heat treatment. Intended for validating the simulations, neutron diffraction (ND) and hole drilling methods were used to measure the residual stress distribution through the thickness and in a thin surface layer, respectively. Good agreement between the FE simulations and ND measurements is observed for the annealed harp and the normal and transverse directions of the as cast harp. Discrepancy occurs in the axial direction and especially in the side bars of the as cast harp for which the simulation shows much higher compressive residual stresses. The observed difference between the different techniques was discussed with respect to the characteristics of the different methods.


Author(s):  
Pham Quang Trung ◽  
David Lee Butler ◽  
Sridhar Idapalapati

Shot peening is a cold working process, which is used to enhance the properties of materials, especially the fatigue life as it induces large compressive residual stresses in the subsurface of materials. In this paper, the effect of the shot peening process on the topography of the shot peened surface and the distribution of the residual stresses in the subsurface of the material was systematically investigated. A technique to estimate the shot peening coverage was employed using a finite element model which was further developed using experimental results for increased accuracy. The comparison between the numerical and experimental studies gives a good agreement of the distribution of the residual stresses in the subsurface of the shot peened material. The shot peening pressure and media size are two main factors affecting on the presence of compressive residual stresses in the subsurface of the material.


2013 ◽  
Vol 768-769 ◽  
pp. 114-119
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Mahmoudi ◽  
Mitra Ghanbari-Matloob ◽  
Soroush Heydarian

In the present study an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach is proposed for residual stresses estimation in engineering components using indentation technique. First of all, load-penetration curves of indentation tests for tensile and compressive residual stresses are studied using Finite Element Method (FEM) for materials with different yield stresses and work-hardening exponents. Then, experimental tests are carried out on samples made of 316L steel without residual stresses. In the next step, multi-layer feed forward ANNs are created and trained based on 80% of obtained numerical data using Back-Error Propagation (BEP) algorithm. Then the trained ANNs are tested against the remaining data. The obtained results show that the predicted residual stresses are in good agreement with the actual data.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1154
Author(s):  
Diego E. Lozano ◽  
George E. Totten ◽  
Yaneth Bedolla-Gil ◽  
Martha Guerrero-Mata ◽  
Marcel Carpio ◽  
...  

Automotive components manufacturers use the 5160 steel in leaf and coil springs. The industrial heat treatment process consists in austenitizing followed by the oil quenching and tempering process. Typically, compressive residual stresses are induced by shot peening on the surface of automotive springs to bestow compressive residual stresses that improve the fatigue resistance and increase the service life of the parts after heat treatment. In this work, a high-speed quenching was used to achieve compressive residual stresses on the surface of AISI/SAE 5160 steel samples by producing high thermal gradients and interrupting the cooling in order to generate a case-core microstructure. A special laboratory equipment was designed and built, which uses water as the quenching media in a high-speed water chamber. The severity of the cooling was characterized with embedded thermocouples to obtain the cooling curves at different depths from the surface. Samples were cooled for various times to produce different hardened case depths. The microstructure of specimens was observed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to estimate the magnitude of residual stresses on the surface of the specimens. Compressive residual stresses at the surface and sub-surface of about −700 MPa were obtained.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Robert Zmich ◽  
Daniel Meyer

Knowledge of the relationships between thermomechanical process loads and the resulting modifications in the surface layer enables targeted adjustments of the required surface integrity independent of the manufacturing process. In various processes with thermomechanical impact, thermal and mechanical loads act simultaneously and affect each other. Thus, the effects on the modifications are interdependent. To gain a better understanding of the interactions of the two loads, it is necessary to vary thermal and mechanical loads independently. A new process of laser-combined deep rolling can fulfil exactly this requirement. The presented findings demonstrate that thermal loads can support the generation of residual compressive stresses to a certain extent. If the thermal loads are increased further, this has a negative effect on the surface layer and the residual stresses are shifted in the direction of tension. The results show the optimum range of thermal loads to further increase the compressive residual stresses in the surface layer and allow to gain a better understanding of the interactions between thermal and mechanical loads.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Suvi Santa-aho ◽  
Mika Kiviluoma ◽  
Tuomas Jokiaho ◽  
Tejas Gundgire ◽  
Mari Honkanen ◽  
...  

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a relatively new manufacturing method that can produce complex geometries and optimized shapes with less process steps. In addition to distinct microstructural features, residual stresses and their formation are also inherent to AM components. AM components require several post-processing steps before they are ready for use. To change the traditional manufacturing method to AM, comprehensive characterization is needed to verify the suitability of AM components. On very demanding corrosion atmospheres, the question is does AM lower or eliminate the risk of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) compared to welded 316L components? This work concentrates on post-processing and its influence on the microstructure and surface and subsurface residual stresses. The shot peening (SP) post-processing levelled out the residual stress differences, producing compressive residual stresses of more than −400 MPa in the AM samples and the effect exceeded an over 100 µm layer below the surface. Post-processing caused grain refinement and low-angle boundary formation on the sample surface layer and silicon carbide (SiC) residue adhesion, which should be taken into account when using the components. Immersion tests with four-point-bending in the heated 80 °C magnesium chloride solution for SCC showed no difference between AM and reference samples even after a 674 h immersion.


2005 ◽  
Vol 490-491 ◽  
pp. 184-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Belahcene ◽  
Xiaolai Zhou ◽  
Jian Lu

Shot peening is an effective method of improving fatigue performance of machine parts in the industry by producing a thin surface layer of compressive residual stresses that prevents crack initiation and retards crack growth during service. Nondestructive evaluation of the prevailing compressive residual stresses in the shallow subsurface layer is realized by the critically refracted longitudinal (Lcr) waves. This paper presents experimental data obtained on SMAT (surface mechanical attrition treatment) steel alloy S355 sample. Comparative travel-time shows that there are statistically significant differences in treated and untreated specimen. With knowledge of the acoustoelastic constants which are obtained by a test calibration, the experimental data indicates that compressive residual stresses are distributed near subsurface (hundreds of micron). These stress results show that the Lcr technique is efficient for evaluation of residual stresses after the surface treatment.


2006 ◽  
Vol 524-525 ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Michaud ◽  
Jean Michel Sprauel ◽  
F. Galzy

In this work, the effect of steel grade on the fatigue resistance of deep-rolled crankshafts is analysed. In the first part of this paper, the mechanisms leading to the increase of the fatigue resistance brought by the deep rolling treatment, is presented. This reinforcement is mainly linked to crack arrest due both to a decrease of the in-depth stress concentration factor and to remaining compressive residual stresses induced by the deep rolling. In a second part, an analytical model of residual stresses generation by deep-rolling and fatigue is presented. In this model the low cyclic fatigue behaviour of the steel is taken into account, and the residual stress stability with bending fatigue cycling can be predicted. After a presentation of the experimental validation on two different microstructures (baintic and ferrito- perlitic), this model is used for analysing the main parameters of the deep-rolling process and fatigue resistance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Luboš Náhlík ◽  
Bohuslav Máša ◽  
Pavel Hutař

This paper deals with the fracture behaviour of layered ceramic composite with residual stresses. The main goal is to investigate the effect of residual stresses and material interfaces on crack propagation by more complex 3D finite element models. The crack behaviour was described by analytical procedures based on linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) and generalized LEFM. The influence of laminate composition with residual stresses on critical values for crack propagation through the laminate interfaces was also determined. Good agreement has been found to exist between numerical results and experimental data. The results obtained can be used for a design of new layered composites with improved resistance against crack propagation.


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