Elastography provides a powerful tool for histopathological identification and clinical diagnosis based on information from tissue stiffness. Benefiting from high resolution, three-dimensional (3D), and noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT), optical micro-elastography has the ability to determine elastic properties with a resolution of ~10 μm in a 3D specimen. The shear wave velocity m...

Active Noise Control (ANC) works on the principle of destructive interference between the primary disturbance field heard as undesired noise and the secondary field which is generated from control actuators. In the simplest system, the disturbance field can be a simple sine wave, and the secondary field is the same sine wave but 180 degrees out of phase. This research presents an investigation ...

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Due to their Bragg peak, proton beams are capable of delivering a targeted dose of radiation to a narrow volume, but range uncertainties currently limit their accuracy. One promising beam characterization technique, protoacoustic range verification, measures the acoustic emission generated by the proton beam. We simulated the pressure waves generated by proton radiation passing through water. W...

⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 928722593; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y.-J. Chen (H.-C. Huang), [email protected] (R.-C. Hwang). This paper presents the estimations of ammonia concentration by using neural network (NN) models. The shear horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) devices coated with L-glutamic acid hydrochloride and polyaniline (PANI) film, respectively, were ap...

Precise manipulation and control of coherent lattice oscillations via nanostructuring and phonon-wave interference has the potential to significantly impact a broad array of technologies and research areas. Resolving the dynamics of individual phonons in defect-laden materials presents an enormous challenge, however, owing to the interdependent nanoscale and ultrafast spatiotemporal scales. Her...

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as a Lagrangian, meshfree method, is supposed to be useful in solving acoustic problems, such as combustion noise, bubble acoustics, etc., and has been gradually used in sound wave computation. However, unphysical oscillations in the sound wave simulation cannot be ignored. In this paper, an artificial viscosity term is added into the standard SPH algorith...

Due to its multi-mode and dispersion characteristics, Lamb waves cause interference signal processing, which profoundly limits their application in nondestructive testing. To resolve this issue, firstly, based on the traditional EMAT, a horizontal polarization periodic permanent magnet electromagnetic acoustic transducer (HP-PPM-EMAT) was proposed. A 2-D finite element model then developed comp...