Innovative underwater sound transducer designs and their analysis by use of bond graphs
S. Hanish · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1986
An innovative technique in modern underwater sound transducer design is to combine conventional transducers with miniature operational networks so as to achieve advanced receiving and transmitting responses for meeting newest design challenges. Operational amplifiers, field-effect transistors, and microprocessors are a few of the active or passive networks that can be so mated to underwater projectors and hydrophones. For all such electromechanical devices, the newer approach of analysis based on bond graph procedures will be demonstrated. A few examples will be analyzed in detail with the objective of both illustrating the use and advantages of bond graphs, and of unfolding the numerous possibilities for shaping transducer responses to accommodate a new generation of design demands.