High Frequency Longitudinal Damped Vibrations of a Cylindrical Ultrasonic Transducer

Ultrasonic piezoelectric transducers used in classical nondestructive testing are producing in general longitudinal vibrations in the MHz range. A simple mechanical model of these transducers would be very useful for wave propagation numerical simulations, avoiding the existing complicated models in...

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Main Authors: Mihai Valentin Predoi, Cristian Cătălin Petre, Ovidiu Vasile, Mihail Boiangiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/105971