Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems: Recent submissions
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Trial for Monitoring the Water Temperature Utilizing the Frequency Dependence of Reflection Coefficient of Ultrasound Passing Through Thin Layer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper describes a new concept to monitor the temperature of water utilizing the acoustic resonance, which occurs when ultrasound passes through a thin layer. In the ultrasonic transmission system that comprises of the ... -
Assessment of Ultrasonic Welds Using Pulsed Infrared Thermography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ultrasonic metal welding is used in the automotive industry for a wide variety of joining applications, including batteries and automotive wire harnessing. During electric vehicle battery pack assembly, the battery cell ... -
Nondestructive Evaluation of Radio Frequency Connector Continuity Using Stimulated Emissions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A wireless nondestructive fault detection test for loose or damaged connectors is demonstrated. An architecture known as the conditioned multiclassification of stimulated emissions (CMSE) is pretrained on simulated and ... -
Modeling and Identification of the Mechanical Properties of Achilles Tendon With Application in Health Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this study, we develop a modeling and experimental framework for multiscale identification of the biomechanical properties of the human Achilles tendon (AT). For this purpose, we extend our coarse-grained model of ... -
Identification of the Velocity, Thickness, and Interfacial Roughness of Coating Using Full Time-Domain URCPS: Cross-Correlation-Based Inverse Problem
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Aiming at characterizing interfacial roughness of thin coatings with unknown sound velocity and thickness, we derive a full time-domain ultrasonic reflection coefficient phase spectrum (URCPS) as a function of interfacial ... -
Regenerated Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing System for Ultrasonic Detection in a 900 °C Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Heat-resistant composites, such as ceramic matrix composites and heat-resistant carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs), are expected to be used for aircraft engine parts. The development of reliable heat-resistant composite ... -
Sparse Sum-of-Squares Optimization for Model Updating Through Minimization of Modal Dynamic Residuals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This research investigates the application of sum-of-squares (SOS) optimization method on finite element model updating through minimization of modal dynamic residuals. The modal dynamic residual formulation usually leads ... -
Local Interaction Simulation Approach for Efficient Modeling of Linear and Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Wave Active Sensing of Complex Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents the local interaction simulation approach (LISA) for efficient modeling of linear and nonlinear ultrasonic guided wave active sensing of complex structures. Three major modeling challenges are considered: ... -
Investigating Effect of Space Radiation Environment on Piezoelectric Sensors: Cobalt-60 Irradiation Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Piezoelectric sensors are used in many structural health monitoring (SHM) methods to interrogate the condition of the structure to which the sensors are affixed or embedded. Among SHM methods utilizing thin wafer piezoelectric ... -
Core-Skin Disbond Detection in a Composite Sandwich Panel Using Guided Ultrasonic Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Advanced composite materials are being increasingly used in state-of-the-art aircraft and aerospace structures due to their many desirable properties. However, such composite materials are highly susceptible to developing ... -
Passive Extraction of Dynamic Transfer Function From Arbitrary Ambient Excitations: Application to High-Speed Rail Inspection From Wheel-Generated Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The general topic of this paper is the passive reconstruction of an acoustic transfer function from an unknown, generally nonstationary excitation. As recently shown in a study of building response to ground shaking, the ... -
Characterization of Nonplanar Second Harmonic Lamb Waves With a Refined Nonlinear Parameter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Structural health monitoring (SHM) methods based on the cumulative second harmonic Lamb waves show attractive advantages. An ideal nonlinear parameter should allow precise characterization of the cumulative effects of the ... -
Peri-Ultrasound Modeling of Dynamic Response of an Interface Crack Showing Wave Scattering and Crack Propagation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A cracked structure made of two different elastic materials having a Griffith crack at the interface is analyzed when it is subjected to pure shear loading and ultrasonic loading. The waves generated by the applied load ... -
Evaluation and Life Extension of Asphalt Pavements Using Rejuvenators and Noncollinear Ultrasonic Wave Mixing: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Except for the relatively small zones within pavements that are subjected to loadings, the primary challenge in asphalt concrete (AC) pavement design and maintenance is to prevent and/or control environmentally induced ... -
Experimental Investigation of Second-Harmonic Lamb Wave Generation in Additively Manufactured Aluminum
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The correlation between the nonlinear acousto-ultrasonic response and the progressive accumulation of fatigue damage is investigated for an additively manufactured aluminum alloy AlSi7Mg and compared with the behavior of ... -
Aspects of a Hybrid Analytical Finite Element Method Approach for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Inspection Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A strategy is presented here to develop guided wave inspection systems using short-range ultrasonic guided waves. A hybrid analytical finite element method (FEM) is presented. The importance of dispersion curve computation, ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
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Nondestructive Evaluation of Porosity Content in the Curved Corner Section of Composite Laminates Using Focused Ultrasonic Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The feasibility of utilizing focused ultrasonic waves for the nondestructive evaluation of porosity content in curved corner sections of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminate structures is investigated numerically ... -
Introduction to the Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics, and Prognostics of Engineering Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)