Damage to tooth root surfaces may occur during ultrasonic cleaning with both piezoelectric and magnetostrictive ultrasonic scalers. It is unclear which mechanism causes more damage or how their mechanism of action leads to such damage. Our null hypothesis is that tooth-surface defect dimensions, resulting from instrumentation with ultrasonic scalers, are independent of whether the scaler probe ...

A method is presented for including motional and eddy current effects when analytically modeling electrical impedance functions of cylindrical magnetostrictive transducers. To approximate eddy current effects, one-dimensional analytical constant parameter linear electromagnetic models of a cylindrical magnetostrictive transducer are developed. Maxwell's equations are solved for the magnetic fie...

Fe-Pd alloy films, prepared by using a DC magnetron sputtering method, were developed as a high sensitive actuator, which was driven by the magnetic field. Fe-Pd alloy film shows large magnetostriction and high magnetostrictive susceptibility under 1 kOe. To evaluate the moving potential as magneto-driving actuator, the magnetostrictive properties were measured under different tensile loading s...

A homogenized energy model was implemented in a model-based nonlinear control design to accurately track a reference displacement signal for high frequency magnetostrictive actuator applications. Rate dependent nonlinear and hysteretic magnetostrictive constitutive behavior is incorporated into the finite-dimensional optimal control design to improve control at high frequency. The integration o...

As a prominent concern regarding implantable devices, eliminating the threat of opportunistic bacterial infection represents a significant benefit to both patient health and device function. Current treatment options focus on chemical approaches to negate bacterial adhesion, however, these methods are in some ways limited. The scope of this study was to assess the efficacy of a novel means of m...

Gd5(SixGe1-x)4 has a complex magnetic-structural phase diagram which can be divided into three distinct regions. I t exhibits an unusual first order coupled magnetic-structural phase transition in the region 0.41 ≤ x ≤ 0.51. A series of magnetostrictive strain measurements were carried out as a function of magnetic field strength at different temperatures and as a function of temperature at nea...

Multiferroic materials exhibit magnetoelectric (ME) coupling and promise new device applications including magnetic sensors, generators, and filters. An effective method for developing ME materials with enhanced ME effect is achieved by the coupling through the interfacial strain between piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials. In this study, the electrical and magnetic properties of Ga do...

In the present work, FGM shells integrated with magnetostrictive layers acting as distributed sensors and actuators are modeled to control vibration attenuation of FGM shells with simply supported boundaryconditions. To achieve a mechanism for actively control of the oscillation amplitude of the integrated structure, a negative velocity proportional feedback control law is implemented in the st...

PURPOSE The effects of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric devices on tooth surfaces seem to differ with regard to the root surface roughness they produce. This study aimed to compare the results of scaling using magnetostrictive and piezoelectric devices on extracted teeth. METHODS Forty-four human extracted teeth were assigned to four study groups (n=11). In two groups (C100 and C200), the t...

TbFe2 film prepared by a flash evaporation system onto Si(100) or polyamide substrate have been irradiated with different Ar ion doses at zero, 1.3x10 and 2.7x10 ions/cm and at 10 kV. Magnetostrictive properties of TbFe2 film with disordered structure, saturated magnetostriction and magnetostrictive susceptibility, improved by Ar ion beam irradiation due to increasing of in-plane compressive st...