Research Article

Local Interaction Simulation Approach for Fault Detection in Medical Ultrasonic Transducers

Table 1

Piezoelectric material properties used for transducer modeling.

NamePZT-5A

Density7750 

Relative permittivity matrix , = 8.854 × 10−12

Stiffness matrix ×

Piezoelectric matrix ×

Damping3 (s)