• 제목/요약/키워드: PZT transducers

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PMN-PT 압전 단결정을 이용한 고감쇠 재료 비파괴 평가용 초음파 탐촉자 연구 (Study on Ultrasonic Transducer for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Highly Attenuative Material Using PMN-PT Single Crystal)

  • 김기복;안봉영;김영길;박상기;하정수
    • 비파괴검사학회지
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    • 제27권4호
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    • pp.313-320
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    • 2007
  • 일반적으로 비파괴 검사용 초음파 탐촉자는 PZT를 이용한 압전소자가 많이 이용되어 왔다. 최근 압전특성이 PZT보다 크게 뛰어난 PMN-PT 압전 단결정 재료가 개발되어 초음파를 이용한 비파괴 평가 분야에 폭넓게 활용될 것으로 기대되고 있다. 본 연구는 PMN-PT를 이용하여 발전설비 고감쇠 재료의 비파괴 평가에 적합한 초음파 탐촉자를 개발하기 위하여 수행되었다. KLM 모델을 이용하여 초음파 탐촉자의 특성을 시뮬레이션 하였으며 이를 기반으로 하여 중심주파수 1 및 2.25 MHz PMN-PT 종파용 초음파 탐촉자를 제작하여 상용 초음파 탐촉자와 그 성능을 비교하였다.

Assessment of temperature effect in structural health monitoring with piezoelectric wafer active sensors

  • Kamas, Tuncay;Poddar, Banibrata;Lin, Bin;Yu, Lingyu
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.835-851
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents theoretical and experimental evaluation of the structural health monitoring (SHM) capability of piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) at elevated temperatures. This is important because the technologies for structural sensing and monitoring need to account for the thermal effect and compensate for it. Permanently installed PWAS transducers have been One of the extensively employed sensor technologies for in-situ continuous SHM. In this paper, the electro-mechanical impedance spectroscopy (EMIS) method has been utilized as a dynamic descriptor of PWAS behavior and as a high frequency standing wave local modal technique. Another SHM technology utilizes PWAS as far-field transient transducers to excite and detect guided waves propagating through the structure. This paper first presents how the EMIS method is used to qualify and quantify circular PWAS resonators in an increasing temperature environment up to 230 deg C. The piezoelectric material degradation with temperature was investigated and trends of variation with temperature were deduced from experimental measurements. These effects were introduced in a wave propagation simulation software called Wave Form Revealer (WFR). The thermal effects on the substrate material were also considered. Thus, the changes in the propagating guided wave signal at various temperatures could be simulated. The paper ends with summary and conclusions followed by suggestions for further work.

Point load actuation on plate structures based on triangular piezoelectric patches

  • Tondreau, Gilles;Raman, Sudharsana Raamanujan;Deraemaeker, Arnaud
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.547-565
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    • 2014
  • This paper investigates the design of a perfect point load actuator based on flat triangular piezoelectric patches. Applying a difference of electric potential between the electrodes of a triangular patch leads to point loads at the tips and distributed moments along the edges of the electrodes. The previously derived analytical expressions of these forces show that they depend on two factors: the width over height (b/l) ratio of the triangle, and the ratio of the in-plane piezoelectric properties ($e_{31}/e_{32}$) of the active layer of the piezoelectric patch. In this paper, it is shown that by a proper choice of b/l and of the piezoelectric properties, the moments can be cancelled, so that if one side of the triangle is clamped, a perfect point load actuation can be achieved. This requires $e_{31}/e_{32}$ to be negative, which imposes the use of interdigitated electrodes instead of continuous ones. The design of two transducers with interdigitated electrodes for perfect point load actuation on a clamped plate is verified with finite element calculations. The first design is based on a full piezoelectric ceramic patch and shows superior actuation performance than the second design based on a piezocomposite patch with a volume fraction of fibres of 86%. The results show that both designs lead to perfect point load actuation while the use of an isotropic PZT patch with continuous electrodes gives significantly different results.

두께변화가 있는 복합재 평판의 램파 전파특성 (The characteristics of Lamb waves in a composite plate with thickness variation)

  • 한정호;김천곤
    • Composites Research
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 2005
  • 본 논문은 램파(Lamb waves)를 이용한 능동검사시스템을 구조 건전성 모니터링 시스템에 적용하기 위하여 램파의 특성연구를 수행하였다 연구는 보다 실제 구조물에 근접한 구조물을 고려하여 두께변화가 있는 준등방성 복합재 평판을 대상으로 PZT 탐촉자(transducer)를 표면에 부착하여 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 두께변화로 인한 램파의 전파특성을 분석하기 위하여 간단하지만 새로운 기법을 적용하였다 본 연구의 결과는 램파의 전파특성은 상대적으로 얇은 구조물에 민감하였고 두께변화가 램파의 전파에 미치는 영향을 보여 주었다. 또한 본 연구에 사용한 분석기법은 램파를 이용한 구조 건전성 모니터링에 적용할 수 있는 가능성을 보여주었다.

Simulation of PZT monitoring of reinforced concrete beams retrofitted with CFRP

  • Providakis, C.P.;Triantafillou, T.C.;Karabalis, D.;Papanicolaou, A.;Stefanaki, K.;Tsantilis, A.;Tzoura, E.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • 제14권5호
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    • pp.811-830
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    • 2014
  • A numerical study has been carried out to simulate an innovative monitoring procedure to detect and localize damage in reinforced concrete beams retrofitted with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) unidirectional laminates. The main novelty of the present simulation is its ability to conduct the electromechanical admittance monitoring technique by considerably compressing the amount of data required for damage detection and localization. A FEM simulation of electromechanical admittance-based sensing technique was employed by applying lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducers to acquire impedance spectrum signatures. Response surface methodology (RSM) is finally adopted as a tool for solving inverse problems to estimate the location and size of damaged areas from the relationship between damage and electromechanical admittance changes computed at PZT transducer surfaces. This statistical metamodel technique allows polynomial models to be produced without requiring complicated modeling or numerous data sets after the generation of damage, leading to considerably lower cost of creating diagnostic database. Finally, a numerical example is carried out regarding a steel-reinforced concrete (RC) beam model monotonically loaded up to its failure which is also retrofitted by a CFRP laminate to verify the validity of the present metamodeling monitoring technique. The load-carrying capacity of concrete is predicted in the present paper by utilizing an Ottosen-type failure surface in order to better take into account the passive confinement behavior of retrofitted concrete material under the application of FRP laminate.

초음파 센서를 이용한 수중통신기에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Underwater Communication system of Ultrasonic Transducer)

  • 김동현;오승재;황현석;송준태
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전자세라믹스 센서 및 박막재료 반도체재료 일렉트렛트 및 응용기술
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    • pp.168-171
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    • 2000
  • Underwater acoustic communications have made considerable advances in the past decade. The purpose of this paper is to achieve the underwater communication by ultrasonic sensors and to investigate conditions of good underwater acoustic communicators. As a result of this experiments, the ultrasonic sensors, MA40E7R/S, made by Nicera can be used as ultrasonic transducers for underwater communication using AM(Amplitude Modulation) signal and Transmission Loss is 17.328[dB] at 65[cm]. To make a good underwater communicator, proper diameter of disk PZT transduers is the one of most important factors, because radiation of acoustic wave depends on proper diameter of transduers and the transmission loss strongly depends on the spreading loss.

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반사파의 주파수 성분변화에 대응한 주파수 가변 초음파 트랜스듀서 (A Study of Frequency variable Ultrasonic Transducer for the Variation of Echo Characteristics in Reflecte Wave)

  • 김무준
    • 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국음향학회 1997년도 영남지회 학술발표회 논문집 Acoustic Society of Korean Youngnam Chapter Symposium Proceedings
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    • pp.40-43
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    • 1997
  • It is known tat the echoes from the most objects differ from the incident pulses in amplitude and frequency .Especially, the frequency in echoes from moving target is shiftby the Doppler effect. it causes to reduce the receiving sensitivity of piezoelectric transducers that have definite band width. The electric impedance, whichis connected to the electrical terminals, notably changes the resonant frequency of a thickeness mode piezoelectric vibrator with high electromechanical doupling due to the electroelastic effect. Using this effect, we have developed a frequency controllable ultrasonic transducer which is mad eof multi-layered PZT disks to adjust to frequency shifted by Doppler effect. The characteristics of transducer can be obtained by using the equivalent circuit of transmission line model. It was confirmed experimentally that the center frequency and band width of the trasducer could be controlled by the conditions of the electrical terminals. These results coincided with theoretical results.

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Fatigue Crack Detection Test of Weldments Using Piezoceramic Transducers

  • KIM MYUNG HYUN;KANG SUNG WON;KEUM CHUNG-YON
    • 한국해양공학회지
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2005
  • Large welded structures, including ships and offshore structures, are normally in operation under cyclic fatigue loadings. These structures include many geometric discontinuities, as well as material discontinuities due to weld joints. The fatigue strength at these hot spots is very important for the structural performance. In the past, various Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques have been developed to detect fatigue cracks and to estimate their location and size. However, an important limitation of most of the existing NDE methods is that they are off line; the normal operation of the structure has to be interrupted, and the device often has to be disassembled. This study explores the development of a structural health monitoring system, with a special interest in applying the technique to welded structural members in ship and offshore structures. In particular, the impedance based structural health monitoring technique that employs the coupling effect of piezoceramic (PZT) materials and structures is investigated.

A near and far-field monitoring technique for damage detection in concrete structures

  • Providakis, Costas;Stefanaki, K.;Voutetaki, M.;Tsompanakis, J.;Stavroulaki, M.
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.159-171
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    • 2014
  • Real-time near and far-field monitoring of concrete structural components gives enough information on the time and condition at which damage occurs, thereby facilitating damage detection while in the same time evaluate the cause of the damage. This paper experimentally investigates an integrated monitoring technique for near and far-field damage detection in concrete structures based on simultaneous use of electromechanical admittance technique in combination with guided wave propagation. The proposed sensing system does not measure the electromechanical admittance itself but detect time variations in output voltages of the response signal obtained across the electrodes of piezoelectric transducers bonded on surfaces of concrete structures. The damage identification is based on the spectral estimation MUSIC algorithm. Experimental results show the efficiency and performance of the proposed measuring technique.

Detection of onset of failure in prestressed strands by cluster analysis of acoustic emissions

  • Ercolino, Marianna;Farhidzadeh, Alireza;Salamone, Salvatore;Magliulo, Gennaro
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • 제2권4호
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    • pp.339-355
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    • 2015
  • Corrosion of prestressed concrete structures is one of the main challenges that engineers face today. In response to this national need, this paper presents the results of a long-term project that aims at developing a structural health monitoring (SHM) technology for the nondestructive evaluation of prestressed structures. In this paper, the use of permanently installed low profile piezoelectric transducers (PZT) is proposed in order to record the acoustic emissions (AE) along the length of the strand. The results of an accelerated corrosion test are presented and k-means clustering is applied via principal component analysis (PCA) of AE features to provide an accurate diagnosis of the strand health. The proposed approach shows good correlation between acoustic emissions features and strand failure. Moreover, a clustering technique for the identification of false alarms is proposed.