Journal ArticleAuthors: Trinh, Dinh Cuong; Nguyen, Viet Hung; Vu, Le Ha; Phung, Anh Tuan; Do, Thi Huong Giang (2020)
To ensure the magnetostrictive softness, the homogeneity, the decrease of the shear-lag effect and the space-saving construction of narrowed longitudinal-transverse L-T magnetoelectric (ME) composites, a novel parallel-connected-multi-bars (PCMB) geometry of PZT/Metglas is proposed and investigated by simulation and experiment. In this case, Metglas layers are structured in different geometries from the conventional single bar (c-SB) to conventional separated multiple bars (c-SMB), elongated separate multi-bar (e-SMB) and n-magnetic-bar based PCMB (n-PCMB). This n-PCMB geometry divides the conventional ME configuration into n parallel-connected ME units (n-PCMEU) according to the magn... 
