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Bühling B, Maack S, Strangfeld C. Fluidic Ultrasound Generation for Non-Destructive Testing. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2311724. [PMID: 38219043 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Air-coupled ultrasonic testing (ACU) is a pioneering technique in non-destructive testing (NDT). While contact testing and fluid immersion testing are standard methods in many applications, the adoption of ACU is progressing slowly, especially in the low ultrasonic frequency range. A main reason for this development is the difficulty of generating high amplitude ultrasonic bursts with equipment that is robust enough to be applied outside a laboratory environment. This paper presents the fluidic ultrasonic transducer as a solution to this challenge. This novel aeroacoustic source uses the flow instability of a sonic jet in a bistable fluidic switch to generate ultrasonic bursts up to 60 kHz with a mean peak pressure of 320 Pa. The robust design allows operation in adverse environments, independent of the operating fluid. Non-contact through-transmission experiments are conducted on four materials and compared with the results of conventional transducers. For the first time, it is shown that the novel fluidic ultrasonic transducer provides a suitable acoustic signal for NDT tasks and has potential of furthering the implementation of ACU in industrial applications.
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- Benjamin Bühling
- Department 8 "Non-Destructive Testing", Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205, Berlin, Germany
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- Department 8 "Non-Destructive Testing", Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205, Berlin, Germany
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- Department 8 "Non-Destructive Testing", Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Unter den Eichen 87, 12205, Berlin, Germany
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Sanchez-Jimenez V, Collazos-Escobar GA, González-Mohino A, Alvarez-Arenas TE, Benedito J, Garcia-Perez JV. Non-invasive monitoring of potato drying by means of air-coupled ultrasound. Food Control 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2023.109653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Dry-cured loin characterization by ultrasound physicochemical and sensory parameters. Eur Food Res Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00217-022-04073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AbstractThe aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of ultrasound inspection and quality determinations to characterize two commercial categories of dry-cured pork loin, labelled as green (GL) and red (RL). For this objective, ultrasound inspection was carried out for two different frequencies (500 and 1000 kHz), considering parameters of ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), frequency components related to the fast Fourier transform (FFT), and variables related to the attenuation. Physicochemical (moisture and fat content, water activity, instrumental color), instrumental texture (TPA) and sensory analyses (QDA) were also carried out. Moreover, quality and ultrasonic parameters were subjected to a correlation analysis (Pearson). Several physicochemical, instrumental texture and sensory parameters allowed to discriminate the dry-cured loin category. Moreover, high significant correlations were found among quality and acoustics parameters. Thus, ultrasound inspection can determine quality parameters indirectly without the limitations of traditional methodologies, postulating as a tool for characterizing dry-cured loin samples of different category with a promising predictive nature. This work has showed new findings for dry-cured meat products that may be of interest to the meat industry.
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Schreuders FK, Schlangen M, Kyriakopoulou K, Boom RM, van der Goot AJ. Texture methods for evaluating meat and meat analogue structures: A review. Food Control 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Fariñas L, Contreras M, Sanchez-Jimenez V, Benedito J, Garcia-Perez JV. Use of air-coupled ultrasound for the non-invasive characterization of the textural properties of pork burger patties. J FOOD ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2021.110481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Assessment of avocado textural changes during ripening by using contactless air-coupled ultrasound. J FOOD ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2020.110266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hosseinaee Z, Le M, Bell K, Reza PH. Towards non-contact photoacoustic imaging [review]. PHOTOACOUSTICS 2020; 20:100207. [PMID: 33024694 PMCID: PMC7530308 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2020.100207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) takes advantage of both optical and ultrasound imaging properties to visualize optical absorption with high resolution and contrast. Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is usually categorized with all-optical microscopy techniques such as optical coherence tomography or confocal microscopes. Despite offering high sensitivity, novel imaging contrast, and high resolution, PAM is not generally an all-optical imaging method unlike the other microscopy techniques. One of the significant limitations of photoacoustic microscopes arises from their need to be in physical contact with the sample through a coupling media. This physical contact, coupling, or immersion of the sample is undesirable or impractical for many clinical and pre-clinical applications. This also limits the flexibility of photoacoustic techniques to be integrated with other all-optical imaging microscopes for providing complementary imaging contrast. To overcome these limitations, several non-contact photoacoustic signal detection approaches have been proposed. This paper presents a brief overview of current non-contact photoacoustic detection techniques with an emphasis on all-optical detection methods and their associated physical mechanisms.
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- Zohreh Hosseinaee
- PhotoMedicine Labs, Department of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- PhotoMedicine Labs, Department of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- PhotoMedicine Labs, Department of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
- IllumiSonics Inc., Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- PhotoMedicine Labs, Department of System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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Metilli L, Francis M, Povey M, Lazidis A, Marty-Terrade S, Ray J, Simone E. Latest advances in imaging techniques for characterizing soft, multiphasic food materials. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 279:102154. [PMID: 32330733 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2020.102154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Over the last two decades, the development and production of innovative, customer-tailored food products with enhanced health benefits have seen major advances. However, the manufacture of edible materials with tuned physical and organoleptic properties requires a good knowledge of food microstructure and its relationship to the macroscopic properties of the final food product. Food products are complex materials, often consisting of multiple phases. Furthermore, each phase usually contains a variety of biological macromolecules, such as carbohydrates, proteins and lipids, as well as water droplets and gas bubbles. Micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, might also play an important role in determining and engineering food microstructure. Considering this complexity, highly advanced physio-chemical techniques are required for characterizing the microstructure of food systems prior to, during and after processing. Fast, in situ techniques are also essential for industrial applications. Due to the wide variety of instruments and methods, the scope of this paper is focused only on the latest advances of selected food characterization techniques, with emphasis on soft, multi-phasic food materials.
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Zou Y, Shi H, Xu P, Jiang D, Zhang X, Xu W, Wang D. Combined effect of ultrasound and sodium bicarbonate marination on chicken breast tenderness and its molecular mechanism. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2019; 59:104735. [PMID: 31442769 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The objective of this study was to explore the combined effect of ultrasound (20 kHz ultrasound probe (12 mm diameter), an output power of 350 W for 5 min (on-time and off-time pulse durations of 2 s and 3 s, respectively)) with low concentration (0.2 M) sodium bicarbonate solution (USB) on chicken breast tenderness and its preliminary molecular mechanism. Therefore, myofibril fragmentation index (MFI), filtering residues, cooking loss, shear force, histology of meat as well as SDS-PAGE, circular dichroism (CD), synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetrv (DSC) of actomyosin were investigated and compared with untreated (Control), deionized water (DW), ultrasound in deionized water (UDW), 0.2 M sodium bicarbonate solution (SB), respectively. The results showed that USB can effectively increase MFI, and reduce filtering residues, cooking loss and shear force by compared with UDW or SB. Furthermore, myofibril was presented with the largest interfibrillary spaces and the highest degree of actomyosin dissociation in USB group. The increase in α-helix content and decrease in fluorescence intensity of tyrosine and tryptophan implied that USB caused the conformation change in actomyosin. Additionally, actomyosin in USB group became more sensitive to temperature. Therefore, the treatment of ultrasound combined with low concentration of sodium bicarbonate accelerated actomyosin degeneration was considered as a promising and efficient technique in meat processing, especially for the fitness enthusiasts.
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- Ye Zou
- Institute of Agro-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, PR China
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- Institute of Agro-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, PR China; College of Food Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210046, PR China
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- Science and Technology Literature Development Service Center, Jiangsu Information Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210042, PR China
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- Science and Technology Literature Development Service Center, Jiangsu Information Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210042, PR China
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- Institute of Agro-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, PR China
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- Institute of Agro-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, PR China.
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- Institute of Agro-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, PR China; Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China.
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Pérez-Santaescolástica C, Fraeye I, Barba FJ, Gómez B, Tomasevic I, Romero A, Moreno A, Toldrá F, Lorenzo JM. Application of non-invasive technologies in dry-cured ham: An overview. Trends Food Sci Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2019.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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López-Pedrouso M, Pérez-Santaescolástica C, Franco D, Carballo J, Garcia-Perez JV, Benedito J, Zapata C, Lorenzo JM. Proteomic footprint of ultrasound intensification on sliced dry-cured ham subjected to mild thermal conditions. J Proteomics 2018; 193:123-130. [PMID: 30312679 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2018.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Revised: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Ultrasound can intensify the heating process used to correct texture defects in dry-cured hams. The effect of ultrasound-assisted heating on the proteome of sliced dry-cured ham was evaluated. Dry-cured hams with high proteolysis index (PI > 36) were sliced, vacuum packed and subjected to conventional (CV) and ultrasound-assisted (US) thermal treatments. Comparative proteome profiling between sample groups was assessed by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. It was found that protein fragmentation increased markedly after US thermal treatment. Specifically, fragments of the major myofibrillar protein, actin, were abundantly over-represented following US heating. In addition, five unfragmented sarcoplasmic proteins (i.e. fatty acid-binding protein, peroxiredoxin-6, superoxide dismutase, carbonyl reductase and aminoacylase) showed increased abundance in the US sample group. These results suggest candidate biomarkers to monitor proteolysis intensity and proteolysis-independent effects linked to cured ham quality by ultrasound application. SIGNIFICANCE: The present proteome profiling study of treated dry-cured ham demonstrates the impact of ultrasound action on proteins. Moreover, negative organoleptic effects can be appearing with ultrasound treatment due to proteolysis increase. Therefore, the proteolysis monitoring could help to control these effects. In this regards, our results suggest that actin can be a candidate biomarker to monitor proteolysis intensity.
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- M López-Pedrouso
- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15872, Spain
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- Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia, Rúa Galicia N° 4, Parque Tecnológico de Galicia, San Cibrán das Viñas, 32900 Ourense, Spain
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- Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia, Rúa Galicia N° 4, Parque Tecnológico de Galicia, San Cibrán das Viñas, 32900 Ourense, Spain
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- Área de Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidad de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
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- Universitat Politècnica de València, Department of Food Technology, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain
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- Universitat Politècnica de València, Department of Food Technology, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain
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- Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15872, Spain
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- Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia, Rúa Galicia N° 4, Parque Tecnológico de Galicia, San Cibrán das Viñas, 32900 Ourense, Spain.
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Arvanitoyannis IS, Kotsanopoulos KV, Savva AG. Use of ultrasounds in the food industry-Methods and effects on quality, safety, and organoleptic characteristics of foods: A review. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2017; 57:109-128. [PMID: 26462548 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2013.860514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The use of ultrasounds has recently gained significant interest in the food industry mainly due to the new trends of consumers toward functional foods. Offering several advantages, this form of energy can be applied for the improvement of qualitative characteristics of high-quality foods as well as for assuring safety of a vast variety of foodstuffs, and at the same time minimizing any negative effects of the sensory characteristics of foods. Furthermore, the non-destructive nature of this technology offers several opportunities for the compositional analysis of foods. However, further research is required for the improvement of related techniques and the reduction of application costs in order to render this technology efficient for industrial use. This review paper covers the main applications of ultrasounds as well as several advantages of the use of the technology in combination with conventional techniques. The effects of ultrasounds on the characteristics, microbial safety, and quality of several foods are also detailed.
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- Ioannis S Arvanitoyannis
- a Department of Agriculture Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment , Faculty of Agriculture, University of Thessaly , Fytokou Str., Nea Ionia Magnesias , Hellas , Greece
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- a Department of Agriculture Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment , Faculty of Agriculture, University of Thessaly , Fytokou Str., Nea Ionia Magnesias , Hellas , Greece
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- a Department of Agriculture Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment , Faculty of Agriculture, University of Thessaly , Fytokou Str., Nea Ionia Magnesias , Hellas , Greece
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Gómez Álvarez-Arenas TE, Camacho J, Fritsch C. Passive focusing techniques for piezoelectric air-coupled ultrasonic transducers. ULTRASONICS 2016; 67:85-93. [PMID: 26799129 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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This paper proposes a novel passive focusing system for Air-Coupled Ultrasonic (ACU) piezoelectric transducers which is inspired by the Newtonian-Cassegrain (NC) telescope concept. It consist of a primary spherical mirror with an output hole and a flat secondary mirror, normal to the propagation axis, that is the transducer surface itself. The device is modeled and acoustic field is calculated showing a collimated beam with a symmetrical focus. A prototype according to this design is built and tested with an ACU piezoelectric transducer with center frequency at 400 kHz, high-sensitivity, wideband and 25 mm diameter flat aperture. The acoustic field is measured and compared with calculations. The presented prototype exhibit a 1.5 mm focus width and a collimated beam up to 15 mm off the output hole. In addition, the performance of this novel design is compared, both theoretically and experimentally, with two techniques used before for electrostatic transducers: the Fresnel Zone Plate - FZP and the off-axis parabolic or spherical mirror. The proposed NC arrangement has a coaxial design, which eases the transducers positioning and use in many applications, and is less bulky than off-axis mirrors. Unlike in off-axis mirrors, it is now possible to use a spherical primary mirror with minimum aberrations. FZP provides a more compact solution and is easy to build, but presents some background noise due to interference of waves diffracted at out of focus regions. By contrast, off-axis parabolic mirrors provide a well defined focus and are free from background noise, although they are bulky and more difficult to build. Spherical mirrors are more easily built, but this yields a non symmetric beam and a poorly defined focus.
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Innovative applications of high-intensity ultrasound in the development of functional food ingredients: Production of protein hydrolysates and bioactive peptides. Food Res Int 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2015.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Turantaş F, Kılıç GB, Kılıç B. Ultrasound in the meat industry: General applications and decontamination efficiency. Int J Food Microbiol 2015; 198:59-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/21/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Periyaswamy T, Balasubramanian K, Pastore C. Novel characterization method for fibrous materials using non-contact acoustics: material properties revealed by ultrasonic perturbations. ULTRASONICS 2015; 56:361-369. [PMID: 25439446 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2014.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2013] [Revised: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Fibrous materials are unique hierarchical complex structures exhibiting a range of mechanical, thermal, optical and electrical properties. The inherent discontinuity at micro and macro levels, heterogeneity and multi-scale porosity differentiates fibrous materials from other engineering materials that are typically continuum in nature. These structural complexities greatly influence the techniques and modalities that can be applied to characterize fibrous materials. Typically, the material response to an applied external force is measured and used as a characteristic number of the specimen. In general, a range of equipment is in use to obtain these numbers to signify the material properties. Nevertheless, obtaining these numbers for materials like fiber ensembles is often time consuming, destructive, and requires multiple modalities. It is hypothesized that the material response to an applied acoustic frequency would provide a robust alternative characterization mode for rapid and non-destructive material analysis. This research proposes applying air-coupled ultrasonic acoustics to characterize fibrous materials. Ultrasonic frequency waves transmitted through fibrous assemblies were feature extracted to understand the correlation between the applied frequency and the material properties. Mechanical and thermal characteristics were analyzed using ultrasonic features such as time of flight, signal velocity, power and the rate of attenuation of signal amplitude. Subsequently, these temporal and spectral characteristics were mapped with the standard low-stress mechanical and thermal properties via an empirical artificial intelligence engine. A high correlation of >0.92 (S.D. 0.06) was observed between the ultrasonic features and the standard measurements. The proposed ultrasonic technique can be used toward rapid characterization of dynamic behavior of flexible fibrous assemblies.
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