Affiliations: [a] Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA | [b] MOE Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration, School
of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Feng Jin, MOE Key Laboratory for Strength
and Vibration, School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049,
China. E-mail: jinfengzhao@263.net
Abstract: We analyze electrically forced, transient thickness-shear vibration
of a piezoelectric plate of monoclinic crystals as an acoustic wave resonator.
These crystals include the widely used, rotated Y-cut quartz and langasite
crystal plate resonators as special cases. A trigonometric series solution is
obtained with which a few transient effects in a piezoelectric resonator under
a sudden change or fluctuation of the driving voltage amplitude or frequency
are calculated and examined. It is found that under a sudden change of the
driving voltage amplitude the transition of the resonator vibration takes about
0.1 s for an AT-cut quartz resonator, and that a 10 Hz deviation of the driving
frequency from the fundamental resonance causes a significant drop of the
vibration amplitude.
