A flexible piezoelectric transducer design for efficient generation and reception of ultrasonic lamb waves

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1175-1182

  Gachagan, Anthony ^a   Hayward, Gordon ^a   Banks, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRODES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; POLYMER BLENDS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FILLED POLYMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PLATELETS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SURFACE WAVES; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE PLATES; PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURES; POLYMER FILLER MATERIAL; ULTRASONIC LAMB WAVES;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE PLATES; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER DESIGNS; POLYMER FILLER MATERIAL; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; TRANSDUCER CONFIGURATION; ULTRASONIC LAMB WAVES;

EID: 24944472372     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2005.1504004     Document Type: Article

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