Power limitations in acoustic transducer due to PZT material nonlinearities

Nathalie Aurelle; Daniel Guyomar; Lucien Eyraud

doi:10.1117/12.237184

26 April 1996 Power limitations in acoustic transducer due to PZT material nonlinearities

Nathalie Aurelle, Daniel Guyomar, Lucien Eyraud

Proceedings Volume 2779, 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials and 3rd European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237184
Event: 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials, 1996, Lyon, France

Abstract

The characterization work is an important step when studying a piezoelectric materials, it allows to link the mechanical characteristics to the electrical ones. Nevertheless for high excitation levels, significant changes in piezoelectric properties occur. They result in a performance limitations for high power transducers. A better understanding of this nonlinear behavior is needed to optimize heavy duty transducers. We chose to study a symmetrical Langevin transducer close to its resonance frequency, so under high stress and strain, and we elaborated a transducer model based on nonlinear piezoelectric constitutive equations. Simulation results fit nicely with experimental data. Moreover, introduction of nonlinear terms leads to a new explanation of the dissipated power in heavy duty transducers and correlation between model and experiments gives an estimation of the nonlinear parameters.

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Nathalie Aurelle, Daniel Guyomar, and Lucien Eyraud "Power limitations in acoustic transducer due to PZT material nonlinearities", Proc. SPIE 2779, 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials and 3rd European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, (26 April 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237184

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