Modeling of a Galfenol transducer using the bidirectionally coupled magnetoelastic model英文文献.pdfVIP

IOP PUBLISHING SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES Smart Mater. Struct. 18 (2009) 104013 (9pp) doi:10.1088/0964-1726/18/10/104013 Modeling of a Galfenol transducer using the bidirectionally coupled magnetoelastic model 1 2 1 1,2 F C Graham , C Mudivarthi , S Datta and A B Flatau 1 Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, 3181 Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA Received 30 January 2009, in final form 5 July 2009 Published 10 September 2009 Online at stacks.iop.org/SMS/18/104013 Abstract The bidirectionally coupled magnetoelastic model (BCMEM) developed by Mudivarthi et al (2008 Smart Mater. Struct. 17 035005) has been extended to include electric currents in its magnetic finite element formulation. This enables the model to capture the magnetoelastic behavior of magnetostrictive materials subjected to elastic stresses and magnetic fields applied not only using permanent magnets but also the current carrying coils often used in transducer applications. This model was implemented by combining finite element solutions of mechanical and magnetic boundary value problems using COMSOL Multiphysics 3.4 (finite element modeling software) with an energy-based nonlinear magnetomechanical constitutive model. The coupling variables are magnetostriction and magnetic permeability, which are dependent on both the magnetic (magnetic flux density) and the mechanical (stress) states of a magnetostrictive material. In this research, the BCMEM was used to simulate actuator load lines for a magnetostrictive Fe84Ga16 alloy, which were then compared with experimental data (Datta and Flatau 2008 Proc. SPIE 6929 69291Z).