Ultrasonics Research and Development Lab - 410 EES
Laboratory Facilities
A fully equipped Ultrasonic nondestructive Evaluation facility is available in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Penn State University. A whole series of piezoelectric sensors and electro magnetic acoustic transducers are available over a frequency range from 50 KHz to 25 MHz. Five shock and tone burst instrumentation systems are available. We also have an 8 channel phased array tone burst system to do focusing in pipe, a laser based ultrasonic test system, and a set of air coupled sensors.
Computer modeling and computational software are also available to generate dispersion curves and wave structures for all sorts of geometries including plates, pipe, multiple layer structures, rail, rods and other shapes. Programs for anisotropic and viscoelastic structures can also be integrated into the programs. Elastodynamic wave propagation and scattering finite element and boundary element codes are also available for wave propagation and wave scattering from defects for a whole series of different wave guides.
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