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Model ID: 6147

Radially Polarized Piezoelectric Transducer

This tutorial model shows how a user-defined coordinate system can be used to create any type of directional polarization of a piezoelectric material. Results are shown for the case of radial polarization of a piezoelectric disk. The piezoelectric material PZT-5H from the materials library is used.

Examples are shown for static, transient, damped-transient, eigenfrequency and frequency response analyses. Visualization of stress/strain in global (rectangular) and cylindrical coordinates are shown.

The image depicts the deformed shape and the total displacement.

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