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Experimental studies of shallow spherical shell piezoceramic actuators as acoustic boundary control elements

V Jayachandran, M A Westervelt, N E Meyer and J Q Sun

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This paper presents an experimental study of the shallow spherical shell piezoceramic RAINBOW actuator, to follow up the theoretical modeling and numerical studies of this actuator reported in a previous paper. A comparison of theoretically predicted and experimentally determined natural frequencies of the RAINBOW actuator with free edge boundary conditions is presented in the paper. Also presented are results from experiments performed on a prototype of a low profile piezoelectrically driven baffled acoustic piston developed at the Smart Trim Technology Laboratory. Experimentally generated volume velocity curves of the piston are presented. The possible use of this device in active noise control applications is discussed.


PACS

85.50.-n Dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric devices

07.07.Tw Servo and control equipment; robots

46.40.-f Vibrations and mechanical waves

43.50.+y Noise: its effects and control

46.70.De Beams, plates and shells

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Instrumentation and measurement

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 4 (August 1998)

Received 30 July 1997, accepted for publication 19 March 1998



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