... scattering, zeta potential analysis, fluorescence spectroscopy, and advanced ultrasonic testing to investigate the properties of oil-water emulsions with crude oil concentrations spanning from 50 to 500 ppm. The ultrasonic techniques encompassed several specific approaches: analysis of higher harmonics...

...Xin Ye; Jiuguang Zhou; Tribikram Kundu; Chunyan Yu; Igor Sevostianov When osteoporosis occurs, the long cortical bone shows increased porosity. The effect of porosity on the ultrasonic body wave and axial ultrasonic guided wave propagation in the long cortical bone has not been fully investigated...

...Hamad Alnuaimi; Umar Amjad; Yousef Alnuaimi; Tribikram Kundu Nonlinear ultrasonics (NLU) has grown in importance over the past years. The viability of applying the newly developed NLU technique called the Sideband Peak Count-Index (SPC-I) to estimate the 28-day unconfined compressive strength (UCS...

..., the experimental characterization of FRCM bond behavior is essential for designing and ensuring the durability of reinforcement systems. To address this, we have proposed using an innovative nonlinear ultrasonic method: the Side-band Peak Count (SPC) technique. Specifically, the SPC approach has been applied...

...Lejuan Xie; Shuzeng Zhang An understanding of the influence of surface roughness on wave scattering and accurate predictions of wave amplitudes are crucial for quantitative ultrasonic nondestructive testing and evaluation. In this work, the effects of surface roughness on the reflection coefficient...

...-layered dataset of GW signals was analyzed using both commonly used ultrasonic features (e.g., amplitude, frequency, time of flight) as well as statistical features (kurtosis, skewness, variance, etc.). These features were utilized to compute a damage index, and the effectiveness of the detection...

... 16 10 2024 acoustic emission in situ testing asphalt fracture damage quantification on-line diagnostic approaches ultrasonics The asphalt mixture is widely used in pavements due to its characteristics of driving comfort and easy maintenance. Various asphalt pavement distresses...

... component (QSC) of ultrasonic longitudinal waves induced by acoustic radiation. The experiments quantitatively observe the response of the QSC pulse to different levels of aging degradation. A pulse-echo ultrasonic transducer is employed to simultaneously capture the primary longitudinal wave (PLW) and QSC...

... failure analysis materials testing mechanical engineering online diagnostic approaches sensors service life prediction structural engineering testing methodologies ultrasonics Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 10.13039/501100000266 EP/V055577/1 Structural...

...R. Vidya Sagar; Priyan Roy T.; Tribikram Kundu This article reports the observation made during the compressive fracture process of cementitious materials, which has been studied using nonlinear ultrasonic testing (NUT) and acoustic emission (AE) testing techniques. The generated higher harmonics...

...Jee Myung Kim; Kara Peters Fiber Bragg grating sensors have been applied in the remote-bonding configuration for structural health monitoring, in which ultrasonic modes are propagated along the optical fiber to the sensor. Recently, coupling of the ultrasonic mode from optical fiber to optical...

...Joseph S. Cregeen; Rachel S. Edwards Ultrasonic inspection of conductive samples can be performed using electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs). These allow generation of guided waves, such as Lamb waves, in thin plates. Lamb waves are used for defect screening as they can travel long...

...Hossain Ahmed; Asef Sadaf; Sourav Banerjee Methods to quantification of precursor damage in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite structures are reported herein. These techniques include coda wave interferometry (CWI) and nonlinear ultrasonics (NLU). Since low-frequency Lamb wave...

...N. Pavan Kumar; V. H. Patankar The purpose of this research work is to establish the functionality of the novel ultrasonic non-destructive inspection system and accurate gauging of pipes and to locate and visualize flaws in the form of B-scan cross-sectional view (front-view) of the pipe under test...

.... The datasets generated and supporting the findings of this article are obtainable from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. References [1] Rose , J. L. , 2014 , Ultrasonic Waves in Solid Media , Cambridge University Press , pp. 1 – 512 . [2] Cawley , P. , 2018...

...A. Perrin; C. Gueudré; M. A. Ploix; G. Corneloup; T. J. Ulrich; Luke Beardslee; P. Recolin; C. Payan Ultrasonic measurements are commonly used for crack sizing in the industrial context, but due to potential partial crack closure, the crack depth can be underestimated. It could be of importance...

...Florian Ouvrier-Buffet; Jesús N. Eiras; Vincent Garnier; Benoît Durville; Cédric Payan Nonlinear ultrasonic parameters are known to be highly sensitive to the presence of damage in materials, and numerous methods have already been reported. This study proposes a way to image a nonlinear defect...

...Mingyue Zhang; Luis Waldo Escalona Galvis; Antonino Spada; Margherita Capriotti The nondestructive characterization and monitoring of defects in composite structures by ultrasonic guided waves are hindered by the complexity of the interaction. Efficient computational modeling of propagating...

... introduce an automated nondestructive testing system that scans the part using an immersed ultrasonic array probe guided by a robot arm. For imaging, we adopt a two-step, surface-adaptive Total Focusing Method (TFM) approach. For each test position, the TFM allows us to identify the outer surface, followed...

... feature extraction nonlinear ultrasonic ultrasonics Debonding is very common in stiffened structures due to various reasons such as stress concentration, impact, periodic loading, or manufacturing defects [ 1 , 2 ]. The functionality of the stiffened panel structures may not be compromised...