Ultrasonic methods have great potential applications to detect and characterize defects in multi-layered bonded composites. However, it remains challenging quantitatively reconstruct defects, such as disbonds, that influence the integrity of adhesive bonds seriously reduce strength assemblies. In this work, an ultrasonic method based on supervised fully convolutional network (FCN) is proposed h...

A fine grain, relaxor-based piezoelectric ceramic 0.7 Pb(Mg(1/3)Nb(2/3))O3-0.3PbTiO3 (PMN-30% PT) has been investigated, which was fabricated using the columbite precursor method. The complete set of electromechanical properties of the piezoceramic at room temperature is determined using a combination of ultrasonic and resonance techniques. This fine-grain ceramic (grain size < or = 2.5 microm)...

This letter provides a theoretical extension to the elastic properties of polycrystals in order to describe elastic wave scattering from grain boundaries. The extension allows the longitudinal and shear attenuation coefficients for scattering to be derived and is valid for polycrystals containing crystallites of any symmetry class. Attenuation curves are given for polycrystalline SiO2, ZrO2, an...

Stress-dependent elastic moduli of polycrystalline materials are used in a statistically based model for the scattering of ultrasonic waves from randomly oriented grains that are members of a stressed polycrystal. The stress is assumed to be homogeneous and can be either residual or generated from external loads. The stress-dependent elastic properties are incorporated into the definition of th...

A method for ultrasonic measurement of friction material elastic constants was evaluated through a round-robin process. The purpose of the study was two-fold: 1) to formulate and evaluate a standard test method (SAE J2725) for measuring elastic constants using ultrasound and 2) to quantify the measurement variability when the testing method is applied by multiple operators and instrumentation. ...

Fast reduction of blood water volume due to ultra-filtration via hemodialysis machine and critical threshold of blood water volume can result in clinical complications such as hypotension. When blood water volume reduces during hemodialysis process, the concentration of blood forming elements will increase. One of the methods for the monitoring of the concentration changes is ultrasonic speed m...

Abstract The effect of aging on the mechanical properties silicone rubber (SR) was investigated by means ultrasonic, dynamic analysis, and FTIR techniques. Both longitudinal shear (Ultrasonic wave velocities) were measured at room temperature frequencies 2 MHz. Density, molar volume, ultrasonic velocities, tensile strength, properties, FT–IR showed improvement network with time from 0 to 70 day...

The object of this research is to characterize the porous bones by an ultrasonic method using Lamb waves. In recent years, the characterization of such materials has attracted many authors and takes a perfect place in the field of medicine. It requires the development of more efficient technology for getting the necessary quality and security. This paper aims to exploits the dispersion curves o...

This document presents the principle of ultrasonic distance measurement is described, the main error sources of ultrasonic distance measurement are analyzed also. A method of improving precision of ultrasonic distance measurement in air, in which the transmission speed of ultrasonic wave if corrected by measured air temperature and the forward edge of receive wave can be determined accurately b...