THE OPEN-CIRCUIT SENSITIVITY OF RADIALLY POLARIZED FERROELECTRIC CERAMIC CYLINDERS

Abstract

The open-circuit sensitivity of radially polarized ferroelectric ceramic cylinders is derived by treating the ceramic as an anisotropic material. The analysis demonstrates that if the anisotropic properties of the materials employed in the design of cylindrical hydrophone elements are considered, the resulting sensitivities are not significantly different from those derived by Langevin, who considered only stress distributions that obey isotropic criteria. Graphs of the open-circuit sensitivity versus the ratio of wall thickness to outside diameter are presented for the two dissimilar approaches that define the regions over which the differences may be neglected.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 18, 1970
Accession Number
AD0712766

Entities

People

  • Charles L. Leblanc

Organizations

  • Naval Underwater Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Axial Loads
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Elements
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Frequency
  • Lead Zirconate Titanates
  • Lepidoptera
  • Materials
  • Radial Stress
  • Shear Stresses
  • Sonar Transducers
  • Stresses
  • Transducers
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.