New Design of Longitudinal Ultrasonic Vibrator for Wire Drawing

This paper presents a quarter-wave longitudinal vibrator which is applied to ultrasonic assisted wire drawing. The characteristic of this vibrator is only driven by an axially polarized sandwich PZT stack, which converts electrical energy into mechanical vibration energy. The transducer and horn were designed at the same side of the nodal section to achieve greater vibration at the front of the horn. The four-terminal network method was used to design the vibrator. The finite element method (FEM) was adopted to verify the above design and used for the further analysis about the vibration performances of this vibrator. The numberial caculation results match well with the simulation results. The simulation indicates that the resonance frequency of the longitudinal vibration is about 19.6188 kHz and the amplitude of longitudinal vibration at the end of the horn is about 11.48 mu m. The present work provides a new longitudinal vibrator for ultrasonic wire drawing.