title: Thickness vibrations of a piezoelectric plate under biasing fields.
abstract: Thickness vibrations of a piezoelectric plate under uniform initial thermoelectromechanical fields are investigated in this article. An exact solution is obtained for materials with general anisotropy. A plate of langasite, a relatively new piezoelectric material with strong piezoelectric coupling, is analyzed with imposed uniform acceleration as the biasing field as an example. The results show that the biasing fields have remarkable effect on the free vibrations of piezoelectric plate.
authors.affiliation: Mechanics and Materials Science Research Center, School of Engineering, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, PR China. dujianke@nbu.edu.cn <dujianke@nbu.edu.cn>
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y Y
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Zhou