The Open-Circuit Sensitivity of Axially Polarized Ferroelectric Ceramic Cylinders

Abstract

The open-circuit sensitivities of axially polarized ferroelectric ceramic cylinders are derived by treating the ceramic as an anisotropic material. Although the results for cylinders that are pressure-released at the inside lateral surface were identical to those given by Langevin, the analysis showed that the anisotropic properties of currently used ceramics did not influence the sensitivities of these types of cylindrical hydrophone elements. Axially poled cylinders that were completely pressure-released with respect to the radial coordinate were found to exhibit sensitivities larger than those of similar cylinders that were pressure-released on only one major surface, the inside lateral surface. Included in this report are graphs of the magnitude of the stresses induced in the cylinders by the ambient hydrostattic pressures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 22, 1970
Accession Number
AD0715786

Entities

People

  • Charles L. Leblanc

Organizations

  • Naval Underwater Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Barium Titanates
  • Bodies
  • Boundaries
  • Ceramic Bodies
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Electric Charge
  • Elements
  • Equations
  • Hydrophones
  • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Materials
  • Radial Stress
  • Solid Bodies
  • Three Dimensional
  • Titanates
  • Walls

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Structural Dynamics.