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Piezoelectric Sensorics

Force Strain Pressure Acceleration and Acoustic Emission Sensors Materials and Amplifiers

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Authors:
  1. Gustav Gautschi

    1. Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Describes the various applications of piezoelectric sensors in control

  • Only book on this subject

  • Written by an employee of the worlds most important producer of piezoelectric sensors

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 1-3

  3. Background of Piezoelectric Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 5-11

  4. Piezoelectric Materials for Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 13-50

  5. Piezoelectric Sensor Terminology

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 51-72

  6. Piezoelectric Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 73-91

  7. Force and Torque Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 93-126

  8. Strain Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 127-140

  9. Pressure Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 141-165

  10. Acceleration Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 167-197

  11. Acoustic Emission Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 199-207

  12. Amplifiers for Piezoelectric Sensors

    • Gustav Gautschi
    Pages 209-244

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-264
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About this book

Sensors are the key to life and survival - and to the success of modern technology. Nature has provided living creatures with a wealth of sensors for a variety of measurands, such as light, sound, temperature, speed, motion, distance, force, pressure, acceleration, odor and so on - sensors, whose performance and specifications have often not been matched yet by man-made devices. Even at today's high level of electronics and information technology, sensors remain the crucial and decisive interface needed to reliably relate phenomena occurring in the environment to corresponding electric signals that can be processed to obtain the desired information and subsequent correct reaction of systems. Although the literature on sensors is extremely vast, there is one type of sensors which so far has received little attention: the piezoelectric sensor. Certainly, most handbooks on measurement mention briefly this type of sensor yet there is not a single book in the English language dedicated entirelyto piezoelectric sensors and giving a reasonably complete overview. There are only the books by [Gohlke 1955 and 1959] and [Tichy and Gautschi 1980], all in German.

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"Piezoelectric Sensorics is the first book written in English to cover the entire field of piezoelectric sensors for mechanical measurands. It provides a comprehensive overview of the subject and describes the characteristics and practical applications for each type of sensor presented. … This book is well written, technically informative and a pleasure to read. It provides extensive practical advice and clear coverage of the theory, making it suitable for students, scientists, technicians and engineers." (Sensor Review, Vol. 22 (4), 2002)

"This book covers the entire field of piezoelectric sensors for mechanical measurands. Scientists, engineers and technicians, as well as students in engineering will find in this book for the first time a complete overview of this special type of sensors. Extensive practical advice is given throughout the text allowing the reader to profit from author’s many years of experience. … numerous examples illustrate the vast range of practical applications." (ETDE Energy Database, October, 2002)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Zürich, Switzerland

    Gustav Gautschi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Piezoelectric Sensorics

  • Book Subtitle: Force Strain Pressure Acceleration and Acoustic Emission Sensors Materials and Amplifiers

  • Authors: Gustav Gautschi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04732-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42259-4Published: 22 January 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07600-8Published: 22 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04732-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 171 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Condensed Matter Physics

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