We report on (to our knowledge) the first remote contactless photoacoustic imaging with short excitation pulses on semitransparent solid polymer samples for material inspection. In this work solid semitransparent samples are excited with pulses from a short pulse laser. The local absorption of the electromagnetic radiation leads to generation of broadband ultrasonic waves. Ultrasonic waves arri...

This presentation discusses different Zakharenko waves (ZWs) such as the non-dispersive ZWs, dispersive leaky ZWs, slow surface ZWs and ultrasonic surface ZWs, as well as their possible applications. The nondispersive Zakharenko waves can be found in complex systems such as different layered and quantum systems. Existence examples of the non-dispersive Zakharenko waves in both fundamental modes...

In this paper the cross-correlation and phase-shift techniques are used for material thickness estimation. The cross-correlation is used to measure the time a transmitted signal takes to arrive at the receiver or the time between two successive received signals (multiple echoes). Whereas the phase-shift technique measures the time delay (less than a sine wave period) between transmitted and rec...

Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are essential communicative sounds used between rodent pups and their mother. Rat pups emit USVs in stressful situations, such as when they are cold or separated from the nest. We verified the ontogenetic changes in USVs emitted by infant rats isolated from their mother during the pre-weaning period. The number of calls, and the median frequency and first peak of...

UNLABELLED A simple, low-cost, versatile, and potentially scalable casting method is proposed for the fabrication of micro- and nano-thin films, herein termed as ultrasonic "substrate vibration-assisted drop casting" (SVADC). The impingement of a solution drop onto a substrate in a simple process called drop casting, usually results in spreading of the liquid solution and the formation of a non...

Addressing the problem of reconditioning large parts is of particular importance, due to their value and to the fact that the technologies for their reconditioning are very complex. The tools used to refine regenerated rubber which measure 660 mm in diameter and 2130 mm in length suffer from a rather fast dimensional wear. Within this research, the authors looked for a welding reconditioning pr...

Ultrasound-based thermometry requires a temperature-sensitive acoustic parameter that can be used to estimate the temperature by tracking changes in that parameter during heating. The objective of this study is to investigate the temperature dependence of acoustic harmonics generated by nonlinear ultrasound wave propagation in water at various pulse transmit frequencies from 1 to 20 MHz. Simula...

We describe the design and construction of a relatively simple, inexpensive laser interferometer system for accurate measurements of ultrasonic surface displacement waveforms in reasonably friendly environments. We show how analysis of a single waveform can provide both the calibration constant required for absolute measurements and an estimate of the uncertainty of these measurements. We demon...