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The interaction of ultrasonic waves with fluid-embedded viscoelastic plates, pipes, and shells, have been subject to extensive theoretical and experimental studies over several decades. In normal-incidence through-transmission measurements…
This work deals with the sensitivity to the plate roughness of Lamb waves. An experimental study is performed involving an air-coupling transducer system. Signal processing allows us to extract the Lamb waves characteristics: phase velocity…
Backward Lamb waves, which exhibit a group velocity that propagates in the opposite direction to their phase velocity, have recently garnered considerable attention for their potential applications in nondestructive testing. Herein we…
We report the design and characterization of a self-assembled, locally resonant acoustic metamaterial for Lamb waves, composed of a monolayer of $1.02$ $\mu$m polystyrene microspheres adhered to a $1.3$ $\mu$m thick free-standing silicon…
Lamb waves with dominantly longitudinal displacement component have been reported for sensor application in liquid media. However, they are still limited for the fundamental symmetry mode with low plate thickness-to-wavelength (h/l) ratio,…
A method of measuring the thickness of steel plates using through transmission of an acoustic pulse is demonstrated. This study has been done on a stainless steel plate with regions of thickness 10:0 mm, 9:8 mm, and 9:6 mm, using broadband…
We experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of visualizing stress waves propagating in plates using air-coupled acoustic emission sensors. Specifically, we employ a device that embeds arrays of microphones around an optical lens in a…
Higher-order quasi-longitudinal (QL) Lamb waves have been reported for sensor application in liquid media at a higher thickness-to-wavelength (h/l) ratio than the fundamental symmetric modes, with the main advantage of having higher…
Acoustic waves are those waves which travel with the speed of sound through a medium. H. Lamb has derived a cutoff frequency for stratified and isothermal medium for the propagation of acoustic waves. In order to find the cutoff frequency…
Plate acoustic waves (PAW) propagating along X-axis in the Z-cut wafer of a single crystal of lithium niobate are considered theoretically and experimentally. For eight lowest PAW modes, the dispersion curves for wavenumber k(f) are…
We study the propagation of guided elastic waves in a highly-stretched Ecoflex\c{opyright} plate, a nearly incompressible elastomer. The plate is subjected to a nearly-uniaxial stress with an elongation reaching 120% and we measure in-plane…
We investigate laser-induced acoustic wave propagation through smooth and roughened titanium-coated glass substrates. Acoustic waves are generated in a controlled manner via the laser spallation technique. Surface displacements are measured…
Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy has been carried out on suspended gold nanostructures with a rectangular cross section lithographed on a silicon substrate. With a thickness fixed to 110 nm and a width ranging from 200 nm to 800 nm, size…
Reflection of sound from ice sheets floating on water is simulated using Thomson and Haskell's method of matrix propagation. The reflection coefficient is computed as a function of incidence angle and frequency for selected ice parameters…
This paper describes an investigation of the acoustic properties of a rigid plate with a periodic pattern of holes, in a compressible, ideal, inviscid fluid in the absence of mean flow. Leppington and Levine (J. Fluid Mech., 1973) obtained…
We study pressure acoustic propagation in asymmetric spoof-fluid-spoof acoustic waveguides and its potential application in acoustic gas sensors. First, a stable and efficient analytical method is established for fast calculation of the…
A numerical method is proposed for carrying out a full-scale simulation of the process of propagation of an acoustic signal in a cased well. The main goal is to study the interaction of the wave field with the vertical boundary of the…
In this paper the propagation of acoustic plane waves in turbulent, fully developed flow is studied by means of an experimental investigation carried out in a straight, smooth-walled duct.The presence of a coherent perturbation, such as an…
Experimental series of stratified gas-liquid two-phase flows had been carried out in a 26 mm i.d. transparent acrylic horizontal pipe. The study was aimed to determine the interfacial wave characteristics of the flow and to develop a high…
Sound waves are excited on lipid monolayers using a set of planar electrodes aligned in parallel with the excitable medium. By measuring the frequency dependent change in the lateral pressure we are able to extract the sound velocity for…