1. Developing a face-shear lead-free piezoelectric transducer through anti-parallel co-poling and its application to an omnidirectional piezoelectric transducer.
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Eum, Jae-Min, Kim, Eun-Ji, Kim, Dae-Su, Go, Su-Hwan, Chae, Yeon-Gyeong, Lee, Dong-Gyu, Kim, Seung Il, Choi, Yong Rak, Choi, Wonjae, Ha, Jong Moon, Seung, Hong Min, and Nahm, Sahn
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PIEZOELECTRIC transducers , *TRANSDUCERS , *SQUARE waves , *LAMB waves , *NONDESTRUCTIVE testing , *PIEZOELECTRIC ceramics - Abstract
Face-shear deformation was observed in various square piezoelectric transducers prepared using the anti-parallel co-poling method, which led to uniform polarization and the generation and receipt of pure fundamental shear horizontal (SH 0) waves without any Lamb wave. The amplitude of the SH 0 wave was found to be proportional to the piezoelectric charge constant (d 33) of the piezoceramic, suggesting that the d 33 value can be used as a figure of merit for piezoelectric transducers with strong SH 0 waves. The amplitude of the SH 0 wave associated with the square piezoelectric transducer is large at 0° and 90° but almost zero at 45°; therefore, a piezoelectric transducer with good omnidirectional properties needs to be developed. A ring-type omnidirectional piezoelectric transducer was produced using eight trapezoidal piezoceramics. The minimum amplitude of the SH 0 wave generated and received by the ring type-transducer exceeded 70% of the maximum amplitude. Hence, this ring-type transducer is highly omnidirectional and can be used for nondestructive testing and structural health-monitoring applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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