Thickness vibrations of a piezo-semiconducting plate layer (Q1388343)

We investigate small thickness oscillations of a piezo-semiconducting planar layer of finite thickness including heat conduction effects. On the surfaces of the structure, certain homogeneous boundary conditions are prescribed. A linear description and the usual electrically quasistatic approximation are used, but no additional significant simplifications are introduced, i.e. a generalized theory of thermoelasticity and electrical conductivity effects are taken into consideration. Attention is focused on the vibrational response due to a deterministic excitation where, as an example, the thermo-piezoelectric oscillations under a midplane-concentrated heat source with two different time histories are examined in detail. The limiting case of an electrically non-conductive layer is also addressed.