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The fundamental shear horizontal (SH0) wave in plate-like structures is of great importance in non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) as it is non-dispersive, while excitation and reception of SH0 waves using…
The fundamental shear horizontal (SH0) wave in plate-like structures is of practical importance in structural health monitoring due to its non-dispersive characteristics. However, compared with Lamb wave, SH0 wave is less used in practice…
The non-dispersive fundamental shear horizontal (SH0) wave in plate-like structures is of practical importance in non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM). Theoretically, an omnidirectional SH0 transducer phased…
The piezoelectric face-shear (d36) mode may be the most useful shear mode in piezoelectrics, while currently this mode can only exist in single crystals of specific point groups and cut directions. Theoretically the d36 coefficient vanishes…
The fundamental shear horizontal (SH0) wave in plates is of great importance in the field of nondestructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) since it is the unique non-dispersive guided wave mode. For practical…
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become more and more important in modern industries as it can monitor the safety of structures during the full service life and prevent possible losses of life and economics. Shear horizontal wave in…
The application of piezoelectric materials, such as Lead Zirconate Titanate (ZrxTi1-x) O3 (PZT) is increasing in multiple dynamic industries such as structural health monitoring, wireless energy harvesting devices, measuring blood flow,…
The study of this theoretical work definitely adds extra four new dispersive shear-horizontal waves propagating in the transversely isotropic piezoelectromagnetic (PEM) plates of class 6 mm. In this study, the following mechanical,…
Lead Zirconate Titanate [(ZrxTi1-x)O3 ]is used to make ultrasound transducers, sensors, and actuators due to its large piezoelectric coefficient. Several surfaces and subsurface micro defects develop within the Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT)…
Experimental modal analysis (EMA) is of great importance for the dynamic characterization of structures. Existing methods typically employ out-of-plane forces for excitation and measure the acceleration or strain for modal analysis.…
Starting from the general modal solutions for a homogeneous layer of arbitrary material and crystalline symmetry, a matrix formalism is developed to establish the semi analytical expressions of the surface impedance matrices (SIM) for a…
We report observation of strongly enhanced surface SHG in BaTiO_3 due to excitation of a photorefractive surface electromagnetic wave. Surface SH intensity may reach 10^{-2} of the incident fundamental light intensity. Angular, crystal…
Migrating active deicing capabilities to transparent materials with low thermal conductivity has a high potential to improve the operations of several seminal industries in the automotive, robotic, energy, and aerospace sectors. However,…
We report on the frequency and stress dependence of the direct piezoelectric d33 coefficient in BiFeO3 ceramics. The measurements reveal considerable piezoelectric nonlinearity, i.e., dependence of d33 on the amplitude of the dynamic…
We study the propagation of shear horizontal (SH) acoustic waves in a quartz elastic plate in contact with a viscous fluid layer of a finite thickness as an acoustic wave sensor for measuring fluid viscosity or density. The first order…
We utilize classical molecular dynamics to study surface effects on the piezoelectric properties of ZnO nanowires as calculated under uniaxial loading. An important point to our work is that we have utilized two types of surface treatments,…
The structure and dielectric properties of 6% $\rm{Sr}^{2+}$-substituted, modified Lead Zirconium Titanate (PZT) piezoelectric ceramic, with composition…
In their Letter Fujiwara et al. (10.48550/arXiv.2511.09888. 2025) report a high-quality experiment demonstrating the synchronization of the CDW sliding in NbSe3 whiskers (nanowires) with surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The SAWs are induced…
Lack of nonreciprocity is one of the major drawbacks of solid-state acoustic devices, which has hindered the development of microwave-frequency acoustic isolators and circulators. Here we report giant nonreciprocal transmission of…
Piezoelectric elastic metamaterials offer the ability to overcome the fixed, narrow bandwidth characteristics of passive elastic metamaterials. Interesting ultrasonic band gaps exist in piezoelectric plate metamaterials with periodic…