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2. Tutorial

SDT supports piezoelectric constitutive laws for all 3D volume elements and composite shells. The main steps of an analysis are

• define/import mesh. This is a typical SDT process and is described in the SDT manual.
• define piezoelectric material properties, see m_piezo Database.
• define electrodes through an MPC for volumes, see p_piezo ElectrodeMPC, or the element property for shells, see p_piezo Shell.
• define electric boundary conditions, loading, and sensors, this has been discussed in section 1.3.3 and will be illustrated in the examples below.
• compute the response using full order (static or direct frequency response, calling fe_simul) or reduced order models (calling fe2ss, following the theory given in section 1.3.5).
• visualize the response in more detail.