Abstract:
Aspects of the subject disclosure include a pressure-sensing device consisting of a housing including a membrane and one or more piezoresistive elements disposed on the membrane to sense a displacement due to a deflection of the membrane. A first set of electrodes is disposed over the membrane, and a second set of electrodes is disposed on a permeable port of the device at a distance from the membrane. The first and second sets of electrodes form an electrostatic actuator to exert a repulsive force onto the membrane to reduce the deflection of the membrane.
Abstract:
A laser opto-acoustic apparatus and method is applied for nondestructive testing of defects and residual stresses in solids. A nondestructive testing apparatus may have a piezoelectric transducer for measuring oscillations in a solid. The oscillations or waves may be caused from longitudinal, shear, and/or Raleigh waves in the object to be tested. The nondestructive testing apparatus may also include a laser. The laser is capable of generating the longitudinal, shear, and/or Raleigh waves in the object. One method of performing nondestructive testing of materials may include creating at least one of a longitudinal, shear, and/or Raleigh wave in an object and measuring the speed of the wave in the object. The speed of the waves may be compared with the speed of waves in a material without defects to determine whether the object to be tested has defects.
Abstract:
A multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device, a multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device polarization method, and a piezoelectric sensing detection system thereof are disclosed. The piezoelectric sensing detection system is used for a machining tool. The multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device includes a piezoelectric sensing film, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The piezoelectric sensing film has four corners. The first electrode, the second electrode, the third electrode and the fourth electrode are located at the four corners of the piezoelectric sensing film, and at least one electrode is used to polarize another electrode according to at least one polarization direction.
Abstract:
A multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device, a multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device polarization method, and a piezoelectric sensing detection system thereof are disclosed. The piezoelectric sensing detection system is used for a machining tool. The multi-axis piezoelectric stress-sensing device includes a piezoelectric sensing film, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The piezoelectric sensing film has four corners. The first electrode, the second electrode, the third electrode and the fourth electrode are located at the four corners of the piezoelectric sensing film, and at least one electrode is used to polarize another electrode according to at least one polarization direction.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus including a micromirror, an excitation structure containing or supporting the micromirror, and at least one piezoelectric sensor. The excitation structure includes at least one piezoelectric actuator, the excitation structure being configured to resonantly excite the micromirror so as to cause a deflection of the micromirror. The at least one piezoelectric sensor is configured to provide a sensor signal dependent on the deflection of the micromirror, the piezoelectric sensor being connected to the excitation structure so that during the resonant excitation of the micromirror, the sensor signal and the deflection of the micromirror exhibit a fixed mutual phase relationship.
Abstract:
A stress estimation method for a machine structure according to an embodiment is provided with a calculation step of calculating a relationship between the stress generated at the evaluation target position and a physical quantity including a sound pressure or vibration generated at a detection position different from the evaluation target position during vibration of the machine structure. The stress estimation method for a machine structure is provided with a detection step of detecting the physical quantity generated at the detection position during operation of the machine structure. The stress estimation method for a machine structure is provided with an estimation step of estimating the stress generated at the evaluation target position during operation of the machine structure on the basis of the relationship calculated in the calculation step and the physical quantity detected in the detection step.
Abstract:
Provided is a measurement method including measuring, by using a piezoelectric sheet sensor in contact with a measurement object, vibration transmitted from the measurement object to the piezoelectric sheet sensor and measuring pressing force between the measurement object and the piezoelectric sheet sensor.
Abstract:
Structural health monitoring (“SHM”) methods, apparatus and techniques involve building deformation fields maps (amplitude and phase related to excitation) on the surface of the structural component under monitoring based on a network of strain measurements by fiber Bragg grating sensors.
Abstract:
A force detection sensor includes a base member having a first surface subjected to an external force and a second surface having a normal direction different from the first surface, and electrode fingers placed on the second surface, wherein an arrangement direction of the electrode fingers is different from the normal direction of the first surface in a plan view of the second surface. Further, the second surface includes a surface of a piezoelectric material. A constituent material of the piezoelectric material is quartz crystal. The first surface crosses an electrical axis of the quartz crystal.
Abstract:
To detect a physical parameter, a resonator is connected to a body which changes in dimension when subjected to the parameter. Thus, when the body changes in dimension in response to the parameter, the resonance frequency of the resonator is modulated thereby. Such modulations are detected optically to detect and measure the parameter. In the preferred embodiment, the resonator transmits light and light is applied to the resonator so that the light supplied is transmitted through the resonator and so that the modulations of the resonance frequency also modulates the intensity of the light transmitted by the resonator. The modulations of the intensity of the light transmitted by the resonator is detected to detect the parameter.