After the initialization of the energy buffer, the experimental device was connected, and no energy was supplied from the
piezoelectric transducer. The goal was to evaluate the maximum operation time for the experimental setup.
It is obvious that susceptibility of
piezoelectric transducer to fracture will be lower if the calculated factor [K.sup.n] takes as low values as possible.
Droplets of 5 to 10 [micro]m diameter resulted using
piezoelectric transducers operating at around 36 kHz to actuate arrays of 5 [micro]m diameter micromachined nozzles.
Once a round is fired for pressure measurement, the process starts with the burning of primer/ignition of propellant; hence burning of propellant generates gas pressure which is sensed by the
piezoelectric transducer (Kistler 6203) as a charge signal.
This mechanism of system was carefully implemented using MATLAB-Simulink environment as observed in Figure 3; first a MATLAB scrip was written (provided in the Appendix) to replicate power generation of
piezoelectric transducer as described in literature review and function of script is to take in
The stapes displacement in response to an acoustic stimulation in front of the eardrum was measured prior to the attachment of the
piezoelectric transducer. The experimental setup was shown in Figure 4.
The system is composed of a mass, a structure, a
piezoelectric transducer attached to the structure, and a switchable inductive circuit.
In addition, the equivalent circuit of the
piezoelectric transducer works as a low-pass filter which introduces a phase shift in its output.
Our unusual
piezoelectric transducer source was developed at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) [now National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)] for use as an acoustic emission sensor (9).