Physical Acoustics V15

List of Contributors

Preface


1 A History of Ultrasonic

I. Introduction

II. High-Frequency Acoustics in the 19th Century

III. Early Work in the 20th Century (1900-1915)

IV. Birth and Growth of Ultrasonics (1916-1926)

V. Intense Ultrasound and Other Developments (1927-1939)

VI. Ultrasonics Comes of Age (1940-1955)

VII. To the Present

References


2 Circuit-Model Analysis and Design of Interdigital Transducers for Surface Acoustic Wave Devices

I. Introduction

II. General Description of Interdigital Transducers as Filter Elements

III. Relation of Transducer Response to Geometry

IV. "Second-Order" Effects and Their Compensation

V. Three-Port Circuit Model Description of Interdigital Transducers

VI. Matching-Circuit-Controlled Trade-off among Insertion Loss, Bandwidth, Triple Transit Suppression, and Voltage Standing-Wave Ratio

VII. Specific Transducer Geometries (Array Factors) for Typical Filter Applications

References


3 Theory of Resonance Scattering

I. Introduction

II. Acoustic-Wave Scattering from Elastic Targets

III. Elastic-Wave Scattering from Cavities and Inclusions

IV. The Inverse Scattering Problem

V. Resonances in Electromagnetic Scattering

References


4 Acoustic Emission—An Update

Introduction

I. Determination of Acoustic Emission Source Characteristics

II. Optical Detection of Acoustic Emissions

III. Signal Analysis

IV. Acoustic Emission during Various Transformations

V. Dislocation Effects

VI. Magnetomechanical Acoustic Emission

VII. Monitoring Fatigue Damage with Acoustic Emission

VIII. Practical Applications

IX. Discussion

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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