Abstract
This paper describes a new type of transducer designed for measuring the contact compliance of a soft body. It is very different from conventional electrodynamic vibrometer which consists of a moving coil and a loudspeaker magnet. The transducer is designed to operate with a piezoelectric disk which is employed as a driver unit. Therefore, the piezoelectric transducer proposed here is small, light, and consumes very little electricity. By using the piezoelectric transducer, experimental investigations have been conducted to deduce the characteristics of the contact compliance of a soft body. It was thus found that the instrument was helpful in drawing conclusions about the properties of soft bodies.
