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Title: Piezoelectric response of ferroelectric polymers under shock loading: Nanosecond piezoelectric PVDF gauge

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.50855· OSTI ID:561832
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis, (ISL), Saint-Louis (France)
  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1421 (United States)

The most common piezoelectric polymer is PVDF, based on the monomer CH{sub 2}-CF{sub 2}. Electrical processing with the Bauer cyclic poling method can routinely produce individual samples with a range of remanent polarizations up to 9mC/cm{sup 2}. The behavior of PVDF has been studied over a wide range of pressures with the destructive, but precise, method of very-high-pressure shock loading. It appears that low inductance electrode lead designs prepared via a new poling procedure improve significantly the precision of the piezoelectric response of the PVDF gauges under shock loading. In particular piezoelectric current response of shock compressed PVDF film is of the order of one nanosecond. Studies to pressures of 30 GPa are available which show that the piezoelectric behavior is linearly dependent on volumetric strain to a close approximation as described in a companion paper. Anomalous response of PVDF observed are identified: solutions are given. The first record of detonation profile is presented. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}

OSTI ID:
561832
Report Number(s):
CONF-950846-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 9716M0106
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 370, Issue 1; Conference: American Physical Society biennial conference on shock compression of condensed matter, Seattle, WA (United States), 13-18 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: May 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English