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An electromagnetic model of a piezoelectric transducer

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A one-dimensional electromechanical model of a piezoelectric transducer, which reproduces excitation of ultrasonic pulses in a product, reception of echo signals, and calculation of waves in all its elements (damper, protector, piezoelectric element, contact-liquid layer, etc.), is considered. The results of calculations of electric and wave processes in a normal ultrasonic transducer, when it operates jointly with a generator of probing pulses, are presented. Good agreement between the calculation and experimental results is demonstrated.

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  1. Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Sof’i Kovalevskoi 18, Yekaterinburg, 620041, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Barkhatov, 2011, published in Defektoskopiya, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 3–15.

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Barkhatov, V.A. An electromagnetic model of a piezoelectric transducer. Russ J Nondestruct Test 47, 501–511 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061830911080031

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