This work presents a cell to measure the dynamic viscosity of liquids using a wave mode conversion from longitudinal to shear waves and vice-versa. The method is based on the measurement of the complex reflection coefficient of shear waves at a solid-liquid interface. The reflected waves at the solid-liquid interface are measured in the longitudinal mode by a large aperture PVDF membrane to avo...

This paper is concerned with the effect of pure shear on the reflection from a plane boundary of infinitesimal plane waves propagating in a half-space of incompressible isotropic elastic material. For a special class of constitutive laws it is shown that an incident plane harmonic wave propagating in the considered plane gives rise to a surface wave in addition to a reflected wave (with angle o...

A problem of reflection and transmission of a plane shear wave incident at a corrugated interface between transversely isotropic inhomogeneous and visco-elastic half-spaces is investigated. Applying appropriate boundary conditions and using Rayleigh’s method of approximation expressions for reflection and transmission coefficients are obtained for the first and second order approximation of the...

Determinations of shear wave speeds of sound and attenuation coefficients are reported for soft tissues, a silicone rubber reference material, and a gel used in manufacturing ultrasonically tissue-mimicking materials. Fresh bovine tissues were investigated, including calfskin, liver, cardiac muscle, and striated muscle. Because of the very large shear wave attenuation coefficients, reasonably a...

In the present investigation, we study the reflection of plane waves, that is, Longitudinal displacement wave(P-Wave), Thermal wave(T-Wave) and Mass Diffusive wave(MD-Wave) in thermodiffusion elastic-half medium which is subjected to impedence boundary condition in context of one relaxatioon time theory given by Lord and Shulman theory (L-S) and the Coupled theory (C-T) of thermoelasticity. The...

The setting and hardening process of concrete can be considered as the most critical time period during the life of a concrete structure. To assure high quality and avoid problems in performance throughout the life of the material, it is essential to have reliable information about the early age properties of the concrete. This paper presents a new method to monitor the hydration process of cem...

We present a systematic method for designing a perfect antireflection coating (ARC) of a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal (PC) with an arbitrary unit cell. We use Bloch wave expansion and time reversal symmetry, which leads exactly to analytic formulas of structural parameters for the ARC and renormalized Fresnel coefficients of the PC. Surface immittance (admittance and impedance) matchin...

We present a method for quantitative measurement of electrical conductivity of semiconductor wafers in a contactless fashion by using millimeter waves. A focusing sensor was developed to focus a 110 GHz millimeter wave beam on the surface of a silicon wafer. The amplitude and the phase of the reflection coefficient of the millimeter wave signal were measured by which electrical conductivity of ...

This paper presents a novel method for the element characterization of printed reflectarray antennas. Their characterization requires the calculation of the phase of the reflection coefficient versus the patch dimension (phase diagram), when the structure is illuminated by a uniform plane wave. The calculation of the phase diagram is based on the full–wave analysis of the structure in a limited...