The air-coupled ultrasonic transducers and their applications to ranging, robotic vision and nondestructive testing etc. have been widely studied in recent years. Further studies should be concentrated on (1) the improvement of the sensitivity and bandwidth of the transducers, (2) the prediction and measurement method of the radiation pattern. Much attention has been paid to the former problem ...

development of ultrasound technique has not been progressing for evaluating the internal quality of fruits as fast as that of processed foods. in this research for quality assessment of pear fruit (shah miveh variety) an ultrasonic measurement system was constructed to transmit and receive the ultrasonic waves. the apparatus included a pulser-receiver, a pair of 75 khz ultrasonic transducers wi...

The capability of embedded piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) to perform in-situ ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) is explored. Laboratory tests are used to prove that PWAS can satisfactorily perform Lamb wave transmission and reception. Subsequently, pulse-echo method for crack detection in an aircraft panel is illustrated. For large area scanning, a PWAS phased array is used t...

Achieving the mechanical properties of steels after various manufacturing and heat treatment processes is significant and essential. In production lines, after producing the specific and standard samples, mechanical properties have been measured by destructive processes which cause waste of cost and time. In addition, destructive techniques cannot detect the miniscule changes made in mechanical...

In this study, two kinds of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques (rebound hardness and ultrasonic pulse velocity methods) are investigated for the effective maintenance of underwater concrete structures. A new methodology to estimate the underwater concrete strengths more effectively, named “artificial neural network (ANN) – based concrete strength estimation with the combination of rebou...

Many recent papers deal with the improvement of tools to characterize ultrasonic signal in NonDestructive Control of materials. The spectral signature of an ultrasonic signal can be characterized by a set of ultrasonic resonances related to the material shape, size and physical properties. Many methods are used for characterizing this signature either in frequency domain or in time domain. In b...

Several different strategies are being considered for ultrasonic structural health monitoring systems using a variety of approaches. Guided wave techniques for interrogating large plate-like structures have probably generated the most interest; these methods have the potential of monitoring large areas with a low sensor density while remaining sensitive to defects. The acousto-ultrasonic nondes...

The method of Acoustic Wavefield Imaging (AWI) offers many advantages over conventional ultrasonic techniques for nondestructive evaluation, and also provides a means of incorporating fixed ultrasonic sensors used for structural health monitoring into subsequent inspections. AWI utilizes these fixed sensors as wave sources and an externally scanned ultrasonic transducer (or laser interferometer...