ZGV Lamb modes for fatigue monitoring

Many engineered objects endure stress throughout their lifetimes, typically leading to material fatigue and failure, which can turn to tragedy, as in the Versailles rail accident of 1842. Thus … Read More…

Cubic H2O ice investigation with TDBS technique

We investigated experimentally and theoretically elastic properties and phase transitions of cubic H2O ice at room temperature and high pressures between 10 and 82 GPa. … Read More…

Monitoring of phase transition with TDBS technique

Picosecond acoustic interferometry is used to monitor in time the motion of the phase transition boundary between two water ice phases, VII and VI, coexisting at a pressure of 2.15 GPa when compressed in a diamond anvil cell at room temperature. Read More…

ZGV Lamb modes for flaw detection in composite materials

Shaping of the generation laser beam allows better generation of the zero-group-velocity (ZGV) Lamb modes and shows their potential to detect subsurface flaws in composite material plates. Read More…