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The key to the success of flexural transducers used in parking sensors lies in the fact that they are extremely sensitive and efficient, whilst at the same time they are relatively simple to construct and are extremely robust. This is exactly how an ultrasonic car parking sensor operates, and these devices operating at twice the maximum audible frequency of humans, of around 40kHz, have had a tremendous impact, particularly on the automotive sector. Flexural ultrasonic transducers (sometimes referred to as uni-morphs) operate through the action of the bending / flexing of a piezoelectric material that is attached to a passive material. Techniques will be created that used the HiFFUTs for the non-destructive testing of low acoustic impedance materials such as aerospace composites, flow measurements and metrology in hostile environments. If we could find a way to increase the frequency range of operation of these devices, whilst at the same time creating new designs that could withstand high pressures and temperatures, a plethora of new applications will open up, in some cases enabling measurements to be made that could not otherwise be taken - that is what this project will do, establishing a world lead in this field of research of High Frequency Flexural Transducers.
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Flexural transducer currently are only designed for operation in ambient atmospheric conditions, at frequencies of up to approximately 50 kHz, with a long wavelengths in fluids and therefore reduced measurement resolution in many cases.