Ultrasonic Propagation in Highly Attenuating Insulation Materials

Experiments have been performed to demonstrate that ultrasound in the 100–400 kHz frequency range can be used to propagate signals through various types of industrial insulation. This is despite the fact that they are highly attenuating to ultrasonic signals due to scattering and viscoelastic effect...

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Autores principales: Hutchins, David A., Watson, Richard L., Davis, Lee A.J., Akanji, Lolu, Billson, Duncan R., Burrascano, Pietro, Laureti, Stefano, Ricci, Marco
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316414
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20082285
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author Hutchins, David A.
Watson, Richard L.
Davis, Lee A.J.
Akanji, Lolu
Billson, Duncan R.
Burrascano, Pietro
Laureti, Stefano
Ricci, Marco
author_facet Hutchins, David A.
Watson, Richard L.
Davis, Lee A.J.
Akanji, Lolu
Billson, Duncan R.
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description Experiments have been performed to demonstrate that ultrasound in the 100–400 kHz frequency range can be used to propagate signals through various types of industrial insulation. This is despite the fact that they are highly attenuating to ultrasonic signals due to scattering and viscoelastic effects. The experiments used a combination of piezocomposite transducers and pulse compression processing. This combination allowed signal-to-noise levels to be enhanced so that signals reflected from the surface of an insulated and cladded steel pipe could be obtained.
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spelling pubmed-72190582020-05-22 Ultrasonic Propagation in Highly Attenuating Insulation Materials Hutchins, David A. Watson, Richard L. Davis, Lee A.J. Akanji, Lolu Billson, Duncan R. Burrascano, Pietro Laureti, Stefano Ricci, Marco Sensors (Basel) Article Experiments have been performed to demonstrate that ultrasound in the 100–400 kHz frequency range can be used to propagate signals through various types of industrial insulation. This is despite the fact that they are highly attenuating to ultrasonic signals due to scattering and viscoelastic effects. The experiments used a combination of piezocomposite transducers and pulse compression processing. This combination allowed signal-to-noise levels to be enhanced so that signals reflected from the surface of an insulated and cladded steel pipe could be obtained. MDPI 2020-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7219058/ /pubmed/32316414 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20082285 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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