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Abstract- Gaseous detonation in tubes produces moving pressure-thermal waves. A gaseous detonation consists of a shock wave and a reaction zone that are tightly coupled. The speed, pressure, and temperature of the products of detonation depend on the type and amount of the initial mixture. The maximum pressure of mechanical wave caused by detonation can be as high as 20-30 times the ambient pressure and temperature of gas in detonation may exceed 2000°C. The mechanical shock waves can cause oscillating strains in the tube wall, which can be several times higher than the equivalent static strains. On the other hand, the passage of the heat wave produces thermal stresses in the tube wall. In the current study the resulting mechanical and thermal stresses have been assessed using numerical simulations. In practice, the mechanical and thermal displacements have been computed separately. Finally, the combined effects of mechanical and thermal stresses caused by gaseous detonation have been simulated.

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The electrical properties of nanostructured piezoelectric materials have attracted the attention of many researchers in the last decade. These features are used in piezoelectric micro-sensors. Mechanical propulsion is usually the result of contact between a piezoelectric surface and a foreign object. In this paper, the effect of mechanical propulsion using an air wave (sound) or vacuum on a silicon diaphragm is investigated. The local stresses created on the diaphragm due to the impact of an air wave have a significant effect on the peak-to-peak voltage of the piezoelectric sensor, which can be measured by measuring changes in this parameter. To investigate this, a micromachined diaphragm of silicon was examined and it was found that fabricating a piezoelectric sensor on a thin and patterned diaphragm could increase the peak-to-peak voltage by about 1.3 times. Detection of these stresses using piezoelectric material layered on the thin and formable diaphragm can act as a piezoelectric microphone or a barometer that the presence of microstructures on the diaphragm will increase their sensitivity.