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Preparatory Notes for ASNT NDT Level III Examination - Ultrasonic Testing, UT

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3.1: Piezoelectric Transducers<br />

The Definitions:<br />

• Nominal frequency (F) - nominal operating frequency of the transducer<br />

(usually stamped on housing)<br />

• Peak frequency (PF) - the highest frequency response measured from<br />

the frequency spectrum<br />

• Bandwidth center frequency (BCF) - the average of the lowest and<br />

highest points at a -6 dB level of the frequency spectrum<br />

• Bandwidth (BW) - the difference between the highest and lowest<br />

frequencies at the -6 dB level of the frequency spectrum; also % of BCF or<br />

of PF<br />

• Pulse width (PW) - the time duration of the time domain envelope that is<br />

20 dB above the rising and decaying cycles of a transducer response

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