A Shear-Wave Microprobe Utilizing Surface-Wave Mode Conversion
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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A very small aperture ultrasonic probe for detecting shear waves was desired for ultrasonic shear-wave field mapping [1–3]. Several designs of such a probe were developed and evaluated. During the course of probe development, a very interesting phenomenon was observed and was used to build an improved shear-wave microprobe that is unique in design and capability. This report describes design evolution, advantages, and applications of this new probe.