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Acoustic Force Transducers

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Handbook of Force Transducers

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An acoustic force transducer is a device in which an acoustic signal (sonic, ultrasonic, etc) is used as an intermediate quantity between its input (in this case, force) and output. There is a great variety of acoustic methods for the measurement of force and other related quantities, the primary one being the surface acoustic wave (SAW) method; others will be discussed together with industrial and medical applications. Alex Mamishev, University of Washington at Seattle, associates the acoustic sensing with the electromagnetic one [13.1].

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Ştefănescu, D.M. (2011). Acoustic Force Transducers. In: Handbook of Force Transducers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18296-9_13

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