Abstract
In this study, the transfer process of extremely light and small-sized particles along a defined direction without flipping them over on the transportation surface is evaluated by using a traveling wave. For this, the use of a liquid, as the contact layer injected onto the top surface of a piezoelectric traveling-wave device, is proposed to transmit the wave into the particles. As a preload is unlikely to be assigned here, the adhesion force between the lightweight particle and the liquid is expected to dominate the delivery effect. A short-beam linear motor is chosen as an example of a piezoelectric device that can generate a traveling wave in association with several selected liquids such as water, saline water, oil, and glycerol. The influence on the traveling-wave amplitude transmitted to liquids with different viscosities and heights is studied by an analytical approach and the finite-element simulation. The surface energy theory is used to determine the adhesion force between the liquid and the lightweight particle. An experiment is conducted to measure the speed of particles with variable sizes that are transported by the liquid wave. The analytical and experimental results are in good agreement, verifying the influence of the above concerned factors on the particle transfer speed.
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