al’s properties and acoustical characteristics have been studied for a long time and ultrasonic techniques have been used in non-destructive testing and imaging for decades. Ultrasound as an analytical tool has revolutionised diagnostics in medicine, but the application of ultrasound to material’s analyses has been held back by problems with ultrasonic design, electronics, sample handling, comp...

Focusing an ultrasonic surface or bulk wave to a point can maximise the amount of ultrasonic energy at a point and increase the sensitivity of a measurement. Using noncontact ultrasonic methods we focus an ultrasonic wave pulse on or in a sample. Focusing can be achieved by using a shaped source or by the surface profile of the sample itself. Experiments and modelling confirm the known result t...

Certain microstructural features of materials, such as grain size in metals, porosity in ceramics, and structural phase compositions, are important for determining mechanical properties. Many of these microstructural features have been characterized by ultrasonic wave propagation measurements, such as wave velocity and attenuation. Real-time monitoring of ultrasonic wave propagation during the ...

INTRODUCTION Automation of ultrasonic testing procedures is a kind of non-destructive testing procedures, which is involves the use of both longitudinal and transverse high-frequency sound waves for the exploration and/or mapping of both surface and sub-surface defect or irregularities. Of course the material thickness or the material loss (corrosions/ erosions) can also be observed by the conc...

We present a simulation technique of ultrasonic fields and echo signals, that uses a digitized crosssection photograph of a test object and a digitized cross-section figure of an ultrasonic probe as input data. The input data file is referred to as a shape file. In the shape file, different colors are assigned to different materials, for example, red for a piezoelectric transducer, green for th...

Among novel structural materials, composites are attractive because they combine the properties of two o more individual components. As an important example, in alumina-zirconia ceramic composite system, the incorporation of α-Al2O3 into stabilized zirconia increases significantly the mechanical and thermal properties. In this work an alumina-zirconia ceramic composite have been prepared with d...

There are about eighty thousand dangerous districts of landslides in Japan. We have constructed a great number of concrete earth holding dams for the purpose of disaster prevention. Most dams will be damaged over time by degradation, such as Alkali-aggregate reaction, salt, etc. Nondestructive dam inspection was done by the government. Many discussions have taken place to find the best solution...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the influences of the concentrations of sodium cholate, cholesterol and drug, preparation temperature, ultrasonic time and power on the particle size and encapsulation efficiency of Flos Magnoliae volatile oil nano-liposome through film-ultrasonic wave technique together with membrane filter method. METHODS The nano-liposomes were prepared by film-ultrasonic wave techniqu...