Title :
Trends in ultrasonic transducer design
Author_Institution :
Meas. Eng. Group, Univ. of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Abstract :
Ultrasonic sensors are widespread in the process industry for example to measure flow, filling level, density or substance concentration in liquid mixtures today. On one side technically high demands are made to the ultrasonic sensors on the other side the production of the ultrasonic sensors has to be more and more cost-efficient. Today, these two contrary demands only can be met by the use of efficient development tools. This contribution describes the state of technology in the field of the computer-assisted ultrasonic transducer development, however, also shows the limits.
Keywords :
finite element analysis; liquid mixtures; process monitoring; ultrasonic measurement; ultrasonic transducers; computer-assisted transducer; concentration measurement; density measurement; filling level measurement; finite element analysis; flow measurement; liquid mixtures; ultrasonic sensor; ultrasonic transducer design; Acoustic materials; Acoustic sensors; Ceramics; Density measurement; Filling; Fluid flow measurement; Geometry; Material properties; Ultrasonic transducers; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Ultrasonic sensor; acoustic material properties; optimization; sensor design;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Measurement & Instruments, 2009. ICEMI '09. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3863-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3864-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICEMI.2009.5273987
