Camus Corentin, Cottinet Pierre-Jean, Richard Claude
Laboratoire LGEF-Laboratoire de Génie Électrique et Ferroélectricité, INSA Lyon, LGEF, UR682, 69621 Villeurbanne, France.
Sensors (Basel). 2024 Mar 19;24(6):1957. doi: 10.3390/s24061957.
In the process of activating non-conductive smart-structures using piezoelectric patches, one possible method is to add a conductive layer to ensure electrical contact of both electrodes of the ceramic. Therefore, depending on the stiffness and the thickness of this layer, changes in the overall piezoelectric properties lead to a loss in the electromechanical coupling that can be implemented. The purpose of this work is to study the impact of this added electrode layer depending on its thickness. A model of the effect of this layer on the piezoelectrical coefficients has been derived from the previous approach of Hashimoto and Yamagushi and successfully compared to experimental data. This global model computes the variation of all the piezoelectric coefficients, and more precisely of k31 or d31 for various brass electrode volumes relative to the ceramic volume. A decrease in the lateral electromechanical coupling factor k31 was observed and quantified. NAVY II PZT piezoelectric transducers were characterized using IEEE standard methods, with brass electrode thicknesses ranging from 50 to 400 microns. The model fits very well as shown by the results, leading to good expectations for the use of this design approach for actuators or sensors embedded in smart-structures.
在使用压电片激活非导电智能结构的过程中,一种可行的方法是添加导电层以确保陶瓷两个电极的电接触。因此,根据该层的刚度和厚度,整体压电性能的变化会导致可实现的机电耦合损失。这项工作的目的是研究这种添加的电极层因其厚度而产生的影响。该层对压电系数影响的模型是从桥本和山口之前的方法推导出来的,并成功地与实验数据进行了比较。这个整体模型计算所有压电系数的变化,更确切地说是计算相对于陶瓷体积的各种黄铜电极体积下k31或d31的变化。观察并量化了横向机电耦合因子k31的降低。使用IEEE标准方法对海军II型PZT压电换能器进行了表征,黄铜电极厚度范围为50至400微米。结果表明该模型拟合得非常好,这为将这种设计方法用于嵌入智能结构中的致动器或传感器带来了良好的预期。