Fabrication and Evaluation of Porous Piezoelectric Ceramics and Porosity-Graded Piezoelectric Actuators.

Autor: Jing-Feng Li, Takagi, Kenta, Ono, Masaru, Wei Pan, Watanabe, Ryuzo, Almajid, Abdulhakim, Taya, Minoru
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Ceramic Society; Jul2003, Vol. 86 Issue 7, p1094, 5p
Abstrakt: Porous ceramics of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) were prepared by sintering powder compacts consisting of PZT and stearic acid powders in an air atmosphere; stearic acid was added as a pore-forming agent (PFA). The dielectric, elastic and piezoelectric properties of uniformly porous PZT ceramics were investigated as a function of the porosity volume fraction. Furthermore, a beam-shaped PZT actuator sample with a graded porosity content across its thickness was fabricated by sintering PFA-graded powder compacts. The electric-fieldinduced bending displacement characteristics of the actuator samples were measured by using strain gauges and were found to be in good agreement with the theoretical predication based on a classical lamination theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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