A study of acoustic emission in piezoelectric multilayer ceramic actuator

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 204-209

  Aburatani, Hideaki ^a   Yoshikawa, Shoko ^a   Uchino, Kenji ^a   De Vries, J W C ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission (AE); Crack; Delamination; Multilayer ceramic actuator; Piezoelectric ceramics; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACTUATORS; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; COERCIVE FORCE; CRACK INITIATION; DELAMINATION; MULTILAYERS; RELIABILITY; STRESS ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

KAISER EFFECT; MULTILAYER CERAMIC ACTUATORS (MCA);

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0031672256     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.37.204     Document Type: Article

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