"Piezoelectric Materials and Devices: Practice and Applications" ed. by Farzad Ebrahimi

This book is a result of contributions of experts from international scientific community working in different aspects of piezoelectric materials and devices through original and innovative research studies. The reader will have access to works related to the various applications of piezoelectric materials such as piezoelectric stacks in level sensors, pressure sensors, actuators for functionally graded plates, active and passive health monitoring systems, machining processes, nondestructive testing of aeronautical structures and acoustic wave velocity measurements.

The text is addressed not only to researchers, but also to professional engineers, students and other experts in a variety of disciplines, both academic and industrial seeking to gain a better understanding of what has been done in the field recently, and what kind of open problems are in this area.

Contents
Preface
1 Piezoelectric Actuators for Functionally Graded Plates-Nonlinear Vibration Analysis
2 Acoustic Wave Velocity Measurement on Piezoelectric Ceramics
3 The Application of Piezoelectric Materials in Machining Processes
4 Application of the Piezoelectricity in an Active and Passive Health Monitoring System
5 Generation of a Selected Lamb Mode by Piezoceramic Transducers: Application to Nondestructive Testing of Aeronautical Structures
6 Piezoelectric Pressure Sensor Based on Enhanced Thin-Film PZT Diaphragm Containing Nanocrystalline Powders
7 Design and Application of Piezoelectric Stacks in Level Sensors