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PUBLICATIONS

Imaging of Surface Wave Slowness

Published

Author(s)

D Xiang, Gerald V. Blessing, Nelson N. Hsu

Abstract

An experimental method has been devised for imaging the acoustic surface wave slowness (inverse of the phase velocity) in anisotropic solids. This technique utilizes a specially designed broadband, line-focus ultrasonic transducer to sense the leaky surface waves as well as leaky pseudo-surface waves emanating from a solid immersed in water. By rotating such a transducer about its symmetric axis normal to the solid surface, the orientation-dependent time waveforms can be obtained. These waveforms are readily transformed into a surface wave slowness image with a simple algorithm.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
74 (15)
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

Surface wave, ultrasonic measurements, Ultrasonics
Mass metrology and Force metrology

Citation

Xiang, D. , Blessing, G. and Hsu, N. (1999), Imaging of Surface Wave Slowness, Applied Physics Letters (Accessed October 22, 2025)

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Created December 31, 1998, Updated October 12, 2021
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