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- Bezek, Can Deniz, et al.
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Analytical Estimation of Beamforming Speed-of-Sound Using Transmission Geometry
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier. - 0041-624X .- 1874-9968. ; 134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most ultrasound imaging techniques necessitate the fundamental step of converting temporal signals received from transducer elements into a spatial echogenecity map. This beamforming (BF) step requires the knowledge of speed-of-sound (SoS) value in the imaged medium. An incorrect assumption of BF SoS leads to aberration artifacts, not only deteriorating the quality and resolution of conventional brightness mode (B-mode) images, hence limiting their clinical usability, but also impairing other ultrasound modalities such as elastography and spatial SoS reconstructions, which rely on faithfully beamformed images as their input. In this work, we propose an analytical method for estimating BF SoS. We show that pixel-wise relative shifts between frames beamformed with an assumed SoS is a function of geometric disparities of the transmission paths and the error in such SoS assumption. Using this relation, we devise an analytical model, the closed form solution of which yields the difference between the assumed and the true SoS in the medium. Based on this, we correct the BF SoS, which can also be applied iteratively. Both in simulations and experiments, lateral B-mode resolution is shown to be improved by ≈ 25% compared to that with an initial SoS assumption error of 3.3% (50 m/s), while localization artifacts from beamforming are also corrected. After 5 iterations, our method achieves BF SoS errors of under 0.6 m/s in simulations. Residual time-delay errors in beamforming 32 numerical phantoms are shown to reduce down to 0.07 µs, with average improvements of up to 21 folds compared to initial inaccurate assumptions. We additionally show the utility of the proposed method in imaging local SoS maps, where using our correction method reduces reconstruction root-mean-square errors substantially, down to their lower-bound with actual BF SoS.
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- Zia, Shafaq, et al.
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Prediction of manufacturing parameters of additively manufactured 316L steel samples using ultrasound fingerprinting
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier. - 0041-624X .- 1874-9968. ; 137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Metal based additive manufacturing techniques such as laser powder bed fusion can produce parts with complex designs as compared to traditional manufacturing. The quality is affected by defects such as porosity or lack of fusion that can be reduced by online control of manufacturing parameters. The conventional way of testing is time consuming and does not allow the process parameters to be linked to the mechanical properties. In this paper, ultrasound data along with supervised learning is used to estimate the manufacturing parameters of 316L steel samples. The steel samples are manufactured with varying process parameters (speed, hatch distance and power) in two batches that are placed at different locations on the build plate. These samples are examined with ultrasound using a focused transducer. The ultrasound scans are performed in a dense grid in the build and transverse direction, respectively. Part of the ultrasound data are used to train a partial least squares regression algorithm by labelling the data with the corresponding manufacturing parameters (speed, hatch distance and power, and build plate location). The remaining data are used for testing of the resulting model. To assess the uncertainty of the method, a Monte-Carlo simulation approach is adopted, providing a confidence interval for the predicted manufacturing parameters. The analysis is performed in both the build and transverse direction. Since the material is anisotropic, results show that there are differences, but that the manufacturing parameters has an effect of the material microstructure in both directions.
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- Zohrevand, Milad, et al.
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Softening mechanisms in ultrasonic treatment of deformed austenitic stainless steel
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier. - 0041-624X .- 1874-9968. ; 116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The effect of ultrasonic treatment on the microstructural evolution and the related softening process in tensile pre-deformed 316 stainless steel was studied by means of electron backscatter diffraction method, optical microscopy, and microhardness measurement. It was observed that different levels of ultrasonic energy induced complex microstructural changes in the treated samples. A large decrease in twin boundaries was observed, which is an indication of the de-twinning process under ultrasonic treatment. A new mechanism for the de-twinning process under oscillatory stress of ultrasonic vibration was proposed. It was shown that de-twinning under ultrasonic treatment led to dislocation production from twin boundaries. Inverse pole figures investigation revealed strong grain rotation following ultrasonic treatment in tensile pre-deformed samples. Subgrain formation in the ultrasonic treated austenitic stainless steel samples indicated that considerable ultrasonic energy was induced by the ultrasonic vibration, which provided the activation energy needed for dislocation climb and cross-slip. The ultrasonic induced subgrain formation, dislocation annihilation, and de-twinning, which resulted in a decrease of the microhardness in the samples, can be considered as possible mechanisms for the acoustic softening in the austenitic stainless steels.
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- Jafarzadeh, Ata, 1992, et al.
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Scattering of elastic waves by a sphere with orthorhombic anisotropy and application to polycrystalline material characterization
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - 0041-624X. ; 138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scattering of elastic waves by an anisotropic sphere with orthorhombic symmetry inside an isotropic medium is studied and applied to characterization of polycrystalline materials with anisotropic grains. For a single sphere the waves in the isotropic surrounding are expanded in the spherical vector wave functions. Inside the sphere, the elastodynamic equations are first transformed to spherical coordinates and the displacement field is expanded in terms of the vector spherical harmonics in the angular directions and power series in the radial direction. The governing equations inside the sphere give recursion relations among the expansion coefficients in the power series. The boundary conditions on the sphere then determine the relation among the scattered wave expansion coefficients and those of the incident wave, expressed as the transition (T) matrix. For low frequencies the elements of the T matrix are obtained in explicit form. According to the theory of Foldy the T matrix elements of a single sphere are used to study attenuation and phase velocity of polycrystalline materials, explicitly for low frequencies. Comparisons of the present method with previously published results and recent FEM results show a good correspondence for low frequencies. The present approach shows a better agreement with FEM for strongly anisotropic materials in comparison with other published methods.
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- Lei, Xiangyu, 1992, et al.
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Experimental Validation of a Phased Array Probe Model in Ultrasonic Inspection
- 2020
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0041-624X. ; 108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacturing facilitate flexible and complex designs and production of components. However, these new techniques should not compromise the safety aspect, which imposes higher demands on the integrity insurance and inspection methods. Phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) provides advanced inspection and evaluation processes, whereas qualification is still needed when applied together with new manufacturing techniques. Numerical modeling, as one of the potential qualification methods, has been developed for decades and should be validated before practical applications. This paper presents an experimental validation work of the phased array probe model implemented in a software, simSUNDT, by comparing the maximum echo amplitudes between the physical experiments and simulations. Two test specimens with side-drilled holes (SDHs) and different materials are considered for validation and practical purposes. An experimental platform with a mechanized gantry system, which enables stabilized inspection procedure, is built and applied during the validation work. Good correlations can be seen from the comparisons and this model is concluded as an acceptable alternative to the corresponding experimental work. The relation between depth and beam angle is also noticed and investigated, which is essential to guarantee an accurate inspection.
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- Shoja, Siavash, 1982, et al.
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Design optimization of transducer arrays for uniform distribution of guided wave energy in arbitrarily shaped domains
- 2020
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0041-624X. ; 103
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of an array of transducers to excite guided Lamb waves, within a plate or any complex structure, usually leads to a variation in the energy on the propagation direction. In this study, an optimization model is proposed to design an array of transducers to provide uniform energy distribution in a domain of an arbitrary shape. The model is based on finding the optimal placements of the transducers and the optimal time delay for excitation by using a genetic algorithm. The efficiency of the model was tested on an elliptically shaped domain, then on an arbitrarily shaped domain. Both cases showed promising results using various configurations/patterns of transducers. The method was experimentally validated on an aluminium alloy plate for two patterns of transducers including six and eight piezoelectric elements.
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- Trzaskowska, A., et al.
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Dispersion of the surface phonons in semiconductor/topological insulator Si/Bi 2 Te 3 heterostructure studied by high resolution Brillouin spectroscopy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ultrasonics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0041-624X. ; 117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The dynamics and dispersion of surface phonons in heterostructure semiconductor/ topological insulator Si/Bi2Te3 was investigated using high resolution Brillouin light scattering method in the GHz frequency range. Both Rayleigh and Sezawa surface acoustic waves have been observed for wave vectors ranging from 0.006 to 0.023 nm−1. Anomaly in dispersion relations ω(q) for both surface waves were detected for the wave vector q = 0.016 nm−1. The finite element method (FEM) was used to simulate the observed shapes of ω(q) and to find the deformation profiles of surface acoustic waves. We attribute the observed changes to the coupling between low energy electrons and surface phonons. The coupling between helical Dirac states and surface phonons is discussed in the frame of accessible theoretical models.
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