Boris Aronov, Ph.D., Sc.D.
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1978 (Sc. D.) Russian Academy of Sciences, Dissertation on Underwater Piezoceramic Transducers .
1962 (Ph. D. ) Dissertation on Underwater Piezoceramic Transducers
1948-1954 MS in Mathematics (Leningrad State University, USSR ).
1948-1953 MS in Electroacoustics (Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, USSR).
Professional Experience
1997- pres Adjunct Research Professor University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Research Director, Ph.D. and M.S. Thesis Advisor, Professor of Graduate Acoustic Transduction
1998-pres Principle Scientist BTech: Development and Commercialization of Transducers, and Consultant at ITC Institute of Theoretical Chemistry.
1953-1996 Morphyspribor (Marine Physical Equipment Institute ), Central Research Institute, Leningrad USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) Leading Research Center in Acoustics and Hydroacoustics in Russia.
1985-1996 Cheif Scientist of HydroAcoustic Transduction: Theory and application of piezoceramic electromechanical transducers for underwater and air applications. Underwater projectors and receivers. Transducers for communication diver systems.
1964-1985. Laboratory Chief : Powerful piezoceramic projector research , design and development. Transducers and sensors for long flexible towed arrays, development of acceleration canceling hydrophones and pressure canceling of accelerometers, and production.
1957-1964 Lead Engineer, Senior Scientist: Deep-sea piezoelectric projectors and receivers (hydrophones), design and development .
1953-1957 Senior Engineer: Piezoceramic transducer design and prototyping.
Sample Publications:
Book: “Electromechanical Transducers from Piezoelectric Ceramics”, Advanced Textbook –Monograph, by Boris Aronov, 1990, (in Russian, translation in English in Progress).
More than 70 technical journal papers and 32 patents (inventor certificates). Sample including:
“Calculation of first-order cylindrical piezoceramic receivers,” Sov. Phys. Acoust. V. 34(5) , 804-811, (1988), Phys. Abstr. 13340 (1990).
“Effective coefficients of electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric bodies,” Sov. Appl. Mech. V.16(10), 918-923 , (1980) .Phys.Abstr. 8016 (1 Feb. 1982) .
“Electromechanical energy conversion in piezoceramic bars,” Sov. Phys. Acoust. V . 26(3) , 250-252 , (1980) .
“Calculation of radial modes of piezoceramic disks with axisimmetrical electrodes,” Sov. Appl. Mech. V. 16(11) . 986-992 , (1980) , Phys. Abstr. 26824 (1 Apr. 1982) .
“On electromechanical transformation of energy under bending strains in thin piezoelectric plates,” Dopov. Akad. Nauk Ukr.RSR , Ser. A , #3 , (1980) , Phys. Abstr. 71320 ( 1 Aug. 1980).
“Calculation of the flexural modes of piezoceramic plates,” Sov. Phys. Acoust. V. 27(5), 382-387, (1981).
Recent Acoustical Society of America abstracts and presentations:
“Vibration of thin and thick annular plates,” Yan Xiang, David A. Brown, Lawrence Reinhart, and Boris Aronov, J. of Acoustical Society of America, Vol., No., Pt. 2, May, 2000.
“Combined sound-pressure and pressure-gradient hydrophone design,” Boris Aronov, Lawrence Reinhart and David A. Brown, J. of Acoustical Society of America, Vol., No., Pt. 2, May, 2000.
