The rapid growth in direct digital manufacturing technologies has opened the challenge of designing optimal micro-structures for high-performance components. Current topology optimization techniques do not work well for this type of problems and hence in this paper we propose a technique based on an implicit representation of the structural topology. The detailed microstructure is defined by a ...

This paper presents an improved ultrasonic piezoceramic sandwich transducer, utilised for ultrasonic field in narrow lift stations, wet well, flumes and filter beds. The piezoceramic sandwich transducer powered by a signal generator and it is suitable to generate ultrasound with two piezoceramics and the exponential horn at 35 kHz resonance frequency. From the experiments it can be proved that ...

Loss factor measurements were performed on different sandwich panels to determine the effects of different skin and core materials on the acoustical properties of sandwich structures. The study included the following panel/beam designs: glass-epoxy skin with a meta-aramid (m-aramid) core, glass-epoxy skin with a para-aramid core, carbon skin with a m-aramid core, carbon skin with a m-aramid cor...

Nonlinear frequency conversion of structured beams has been great interest recently. We present an intracavity second harmonic generation (SHG) laser in transverse mode locking (TML) states with a specially designed sandwich such as microchip laser. The nonlinear process beam TML state to its is theoretically and experimentally investigated, considering different relative phase weight parameter...

The vibration attenuation mechanism of shear thickening fluid- (STF-) filled sandwich structures was investigated in this study. Structural equivalent damping, stiffness, and mass increased simultaneously with the increase volume fraction fluid. However, damping ratio decreased natural frequency structural mass. Thus, not a monotonically increasing function STF. A modified strain model layer de...