Applications of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sensors for Nondestructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 1156
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nondestructive testing; acoustic emission; ultrasound; concrete; structural health monitoring
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Interests: X-ray; tomography; ultrasonics; non-destructive testing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ultrasound as well as acoustic emission provide an ideal platform for the non-destructive inspection (NDI) of materials and structural health monitoring (SHM). These techniques can be applied for the inspection of different types of materials and structures, exhibiting many advantages over other traditional techniques. Even though elastic wave methods have been used for a long time, new challenges are emerging related to pushing the limits of characterization. This includes detection of smaller-scale damage and detection earlier in loading or operation life, offering more information on the status of the material and possibly incorporating wireless monitoring and/or air-coupled transmission.
This Special Issue is open to all applications of active (ultrasound) or passive (acoustic emission) elastic waves to any engineering or biomedical material, including but not limited to composites, concrete, masonry, ceramics, 3D printed materials, cultural heritage items, and biological tissues.
We believe that this issue will constitute an up-to-date collection of cutting-edge applications of elastic wave techniques in various fields, such as aerospace, civil engineering, and materials characterization. We encourage submissions of original research and review papers. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Detection, identification, and localization of damage;
- Characterization of anisotropic media;
- Applications of ultrasound and acoustic emission in aeronautics;
- Applications of acousto-ultrasonics;
- Combination of elastic waves with other techniques, i.e., data fusion;
- Application of surface waves at various wavelengths;
- Guided waves;
- Wireless transmission technology;
- Non-contact ultrasonics (laser, air-coupled ultrasound);
- Prediction of remaining life based on acoustic emission behavior;
- Industrial applications;
- Modelling/simulations;
- Signal processing;
- Ultrasonic phased arrays or TFM.
Dr. Dimitrios G. Aggelis
Dr. Elena Jasiuniene
Guest Editors
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