In this study the fractional controllers, which were realized by the different degrees of the Continued Fractional Expansion (CFE) method, were experimentally evaluated for the suppression of the vibrations of the second mode of a smart beam. The smart beam is equipped with PZT patches and these patches were used both as actuator and/or sensor. The control strategy was based on the fractional d...

Multilayer thin-film PZT diaphragm has been designed and modeled. Commercial Finite element software, ANSYS was implemented to model the diaphragm. This multi-layer diaphragm can be used as both sensor and actuator. A simplified model is introduced to reduce the CPU time. Dynamic characteristics of the multilayer diaphragm have been investigated. The important parameters of the multilayer PZT d...

We report efficient acousto-optic control of speckle contrast at the output of multimode fibers (MMFs) using a cylindrical piezoelectric transducer (PZT) vibrating in the radial direction. With appropriate packaging of an MMF around the PZT, periodic stretching and subsequent intensity modulation were achieved over the wound fiber to result in time-averaged smoothing of the output within a shor...

Commercial lead zirconate titanate (PZT) perovskite powders were used to fabricate ceramic tape and then sintered by microwave and conventional methods. Both dielectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT ceramic tapes were studied in terms of sintering process. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) show the PZT perovskite phase with smaller grain size and dens...

The surface morphology and microstructure of laser-ablated Pb~Zr0.52Ti0.48!O3 ~PZT! films on a ~100! SrTiO3 ~STO! substrate at early growth stage are characterized by means of atomic-force microscope, x-ray diffraction, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy analysis. The ~100! STO surface is found to be very favorable for epitaxial growth of ~001! PZT films, which undergo a three...

The electromechanical (EM) impedance technique using piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducers for structural health monitoring (SHM) has attracted considerable attention in various engineering fields. In the conventional EM impedance technique, the EM admittance of a PZT transducer is used as a damage indicator. Statistical analysis methods such as root mean square deviation (RMS...

Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (cMUTs) have emerged as a leading area of research because these devices are non-resonant and can be integrated along with signal processing electronics. However, few publications discuss cMUT arrays packaged in a handheld probe capable of generating realtime ultrasound images. This paper presents real-time in-vivo images from a cMUT linear array ...

Experimental testing is a major source of data to quantify the tolerance of the human body to impact and to develop protection strategies. Correlating the time of rib fractures with the kinematics of the occupant and the action of safety systems would provide valuable data for assessing safety systems and developing injury risk functions. However, methods for determining rib fractures timing ar...

A thermodynamic formalism is developed to calculate the pyroelectric coefficients of epitaxial ~001! Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 ~BST 60/40! and Pb0.5Zr0.5O3 ~PZT 50/50! thin films on ~001! LaAlO3 , 0.29 LaAlO3 :0.35(Sr2TaAlO6) ~LSAT!, MgO, Si, and SrTiO3 substrates as a function of film thickness by taking into account the formation of misfit dislocations at the growth temperature. The role of internal str...