Yuxian Yi, Mingliang Han, Guangbin Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang

A spiral slotted transducer with high longitudinal-torsional conversion rate

  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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The longitudinal-torsional (L-T) composite piezoelectric transducer has wide applications in material processing, welding, and other fields due to its exceptional machining efficiency. This study introduces a spiral slotted L-T transducer, which is designed to achieve a high L-T conversion rate at low operating frequency. The equivalent spring concept is employed to derive the equivalent circuit of the L-T transducer, which provides a convenient study for the frequency characteristics of the transducer. A finite element model is developed to analyze the performance of the transducer and investigate the effect of the spiral slot parameters on the resonance frequency, amplitude, and the L-T conversion rate of it. Two prototype transducers are constructed and measured experimentally. Theoretical computation results, finite element simulation results, and experimental results are compared to each other. The comparison results demonstrate that the proposed computation model provides accurate prediction of the L-T coupling resonance frequency of the transducer. By adjusting the spiral slot parameters of the transducer, a higher L-T conversion rate can be achieved, which may have more applications in practical engineering.

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