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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Smart Materials Research Volume 2012, Article ID 832939, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/832939 Research Article Solid State Adaptive Rotor Using Postbuckled Precompressed, Bending-Twist Coupled Piezoelectric Actuator Elements Ronald M. Barrett and Ryan Barnhart Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas, 2120 Learned Hall, 1530 W 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045-7621, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Ronald M. Barrett, barrettr@ Received 15 November 2011; Accepted 16 January 2012 Academic Editor: Tao Li Copyright © 2012 R. M. Barrett and R. Barnhart. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper is centered on a new actuation mechanism which is integrated on a solid state rotor. This paper outlines the application of such a system via a Post-Buckled Precompression (PBP) technique at the end of a twist-active piezoelectric rotor blade actuator. The basic performance of the system is handily modeled by using laminated plate theory techniques. A dual cantilevered spring system was used to increasingly null the passive stiffness of the root actuator along the feathering axis of the rotor blade. As the precompression levels were increased, it was shown that corresponding blade pitch levels also increased. The PBP cantilever spring system was designed so as to provide a high level of stabilizing pitch-flap coupling and inherent resistance to rotor propeller moments. Experimental testing showed pitch deflections increasing from just 8◦ peak-to-peak deflections at 650 V/mm field strength to more than 26◦ at