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. This paper describes a new magnet-based method for applying a compressive pre-load to the piezoceramic elements of a Tonpilz-type acoustic projector, with the advantage of lower damping due to mechanical friction and a greater range of unhampered resonant motion since no plate spring is required. The Tonpilz-type acoustic projector can be applied to structural health monitoring studies involving air coupled ultrasound. Acoustic model predictions and the measured behaviour of a relaxor ferroelectric single crystal (RFSC) based prototype device, operating in air, are presented and show good correlation. With a 5 V drive, at 9420 Hz resonance, the prototype device generates a sound pressure level of 113 dB measured at an axial distance of 5 mm. The maximum peak tip displacement of the device’s head mass is predicted to be 0.7 µm at resonance. This is well within the 2 µm displacement produced by the 90 N magnetic pre-load, thus protecting the RFSC ceramic element from damaging tensile stress.

Magnetic Pre-Loading for a Tonpilz-Type Acoustic Projector