TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of the ultrasonic properties of additive manufactured materials for passive components of piezoelectric transducers
AU - Farinas, Maria Dolores
AU - Álvarez-Arenas, Tomás Gómez
AU - Cummins, Gerard
AU - Desmulliez, Marc Phillipe Yves
AU - Seetohul, Vipin
AU - Cochran, Sandy
N1 - one year exception
PY - 2016/11/3
Y1 - 2016/11/3
N2 - The potential of additive manufacturing (AM) to revolutionize aspects of industrial production is widely recognized. AM can create objects with non-uniform properties by varying the ratio between deposited materials or altering the internal structure of the object. Amongst many possibilities, such AM objects could benefit the design and fabrication of different passive components of ultrasonic transducers, e.g. backing material, lenses and matching layers. The acoustic properties of AM objects produced using the Polyjet and Fused Deposition Methods were characterized. Initial results suggest that these technologies can easily produce objects with a wide range of tuned acoustic properties by varying either the internal structure or the material composition.
AB - The potential of additive manufacturing (AM) to revolutionize aspects of industrial production is widely recognized. AM can create objects with non-uniform properties by varying the ratio between deposited materials or altering the internal structure of the object. Amongst many possibilities, such AM objects could benefit the design and fabrication of different passive components of ultrasonic transducers, e.g. backing material, lenses and matching layers. The acoustic properties of AM objects produced using the Polyjet and Fused Deposition Methods were characterized. Initial results suggest that these technologies can easily produce objects with a wide range of tuned acoustic properties by varying either the internal structure or the material composition.
U2 - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728770
DO - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728770
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781467398985
T3 - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium : proceedings
BT - 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
Y2 - 18 September 2016 through 21 September 2016
ER -