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However, manufacturing costs are high due to high part count and tight tolerances required, particularly in the first stage of the valve, and due to manual adjustments required as part of the set-up process. In this research, a novel servovalve concept is investigated that has the potential to be more cost-effective. In particular, for the first time, a piezoelectric first-stage actuator is developed to move a servovalve spool using the deflector jet principle; this is especially suited to aerospace actuation requirements. In the new valve, the conventional electromagnetic torque motor is replaced by a multilayer bimorph piezoelectric actuator. The bimorph deflects a jet of fluid to create a pressure differential across the valve spool; hence the spool moves. A feedback wire is used to facilitate proportional spool position control via mechanical feedback. The bimorph is directly coupled to the feedback wire and is immersed in hydraulic fluid. A high-order non-linear model of the valve has been developed and used to predict valve static and dynamic characteristics and is described in this article. This makes use of stiffness constants derived analytically for the bimorph-feedback wire assembly and cross-referenced to finite element analysis predictions. The model of the flow force acting on the deflector is an approximation of the force characteristic found from computation fluid dynamic analysis. The measured characteristics of the prototype valve are in good agreement with the simulation results and prove that the operational concept is viable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0959651813478288","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,8]],"date-time":"2013-04-08T05:23:48Z","timestamp":1365398628000},"page":"371-389","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["A novel piezohydraulic aerospace servovalve. 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