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Fiber metal laminates (FML) are of high interest for lightweight structures as they combine the advantageous material properties of metals and fiber-reinforced polymers. However, low-velocity impacts can lead to complex internal damage.…
Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems use the non-destructive testing principle for damage identification. As part of SHM, the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) is tracked and analyzed for the changes in the associated wave…
In this work, a novel approach for the detection and localisation of nonlinear guided waves often associated with the presence of damage in structural components is proposed. The method is active and consists of a piezoelectric transducer…
Ultrasonic guided waves offer a convenient and practical approach to structural health monitoring and non-destructive evaluation. A key property of guided waves is the fully-defined relationship between central frequency and propagation…
Ultrasonic guided waves offer a convenient and practical approach to structural health monitoring and non-destructive evaluation, thanks to some distinct advantages. Guided waves, in particular Lamb waves, can be used to localise damage by…
In this paper, we present an approach to ultrasonic beam-forming and beam-steering in structures based on the concept of embedded non-resonant acoustic metamaterial lenses. The lens design exploits the principle of acoustic drop-channel…
In this study, we present an approach to ultrasonic beamforming and high resolution identification of acoustic sources having critical implications for structural health monitoring technology. The proposed concept is based on the design of…
Shear wave elastography involves applying a non-invasive acoustic radiation force to the tissue and imaging the induced deformation to infer its mechanical properties. This work investigates the use of convolutional neural networks to…
We employ ptychography, a phase-retrieval imaging technique, to show experimentally for the first time that a partially coherent high-energy matter (electron) wave emanating from an extended source can be decomposed into a set of mutually…
The appearance of nonlinear effects in elastic wave propagation is one of the most reliable and sensitive indicators of the onset of material damage. However, these effects are usually very small and can be detected only using cumbersome…
The laser ultrasonics technique perfectly fits the needs for non-contact, non-invasive, non-destructive mechanical probing of samples of mm to nm sizes. This technique is however limited to the excitation of low-amplitude strains, below the…
Composites are ideally suited to achieve desirable multifunctional effective properties since the best properties of different materials can be judiciously combined with designed microstructures. Here we establish cross-property relations…
The equations of motion in a macroscopically inhomogeneous porous medium saturated by a fluid are derived. As a first verification of the validity of these equations, a two-layer rigid frame porous system considered as one single porous…
Adsorption of water vapor in nanoporous carbons is rather complex due to an interplay between the pore structure and surface chemistry of these materials. Deciphering the mechanism of adsorption requires the knowledge of the spatial…
In this letter, we experimentally investigate the directional characteristics of propagating, finite-amplitude wave packets in lattice materials, with an emphasis on the functionality enhancement due to the nonlinearly-generated higher…
The use of ultrasonic guided waves to probe the materials/structures for damage continues to increase in popularity for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM). The use of high-frequency waves such as these…
Integrating femtosecond (fs) lasers to electron microscopies has enabled direct imaging of transient structures and morphologies of materials in real time and space, namely, ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM). Here we report the…
In vivo measurement of the mechanical properties of thin-walled soft tissues (e.g., mitral valve, artery and bladder) and in situ mechanical characterization of thin-walled artificial soft biomaterials in service are of great challenge and…
We report on the fabrication and characterization of composite multimode waveguide structures that consist of a stack of single-mode waveguides fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription. We explore 2 types of composite structures; those…
We study propagation of ultrasonic waves through a ferromagnetic medium with special attention to the boundary conditions at the interface with an ultrasonic actuator. In analogy to charge and spin transport in conductors, we formulate the…