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Duijster, A. (author), Volker, A. (author), van den Berg, F. (author), Celada-Casero, C. (author)The applicability of laser ultrasonics for the determination of grain size and phase composition in steels under different temperatures was investigated. This was done by obtaining the velocity and attenuation of propagating ultrasonic waves in a simulated steel medium. Samples of ferrite and austenite with varying microstructures were modelled...article 2023
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Volker, A.W.F. (author), VRolijk, J.W. (author), van der Burg, D.W. (author), van der Heiden, M.S. (author), Martina, Q.E.V.N. (author)Composite materials are becoming more popular in the aerospace industry, because of their physical properties. In quality assurance and in-service inspection, there is a need for fast, non-contact, high-quality, non-destructive inspection techniques. The most common approach is to perform the inspection using water-coupled high-frequency...article 2023
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) based on transducer arrays offer several advantages. With electronic beam steering, it is possible to tune the steering angle of the beam for optimal signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) upon reception. Moreover, multiple beams can be generated to propagate through different travel paths, covering a wider section of the flow...article 2022
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Sabbadini, A. (author), Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)In recent years, several fitting techniques have been presented to reconstruct the parameters of a plate from its Lamb wave dispersion curves. Published studies show that these techniques can yield high accuracy results and have the potential of reconstructing several parameters at once. The precision with which parameters can be reconstructed...article 2022
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- Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Sabbadini, A. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author) article 2022
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- Visschers, F.L.L. (author), Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author), Liu, D. (author), Broer, D.J. (author) article 2022
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters (UFMs) are installed on the outside of the pipe wall. Typically, they consist of two single-element transducers mounted on angled wedges, which are acoustically coupled to the pipe wall. Before flow metering, the transducers are placed at the correct axial position by manually moving one transducer along the pipe...article 2022
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Sabbadini, A. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Current ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters consist of a pair of single-element transducers which are carefully positioned before use. This positioning process consists of manually finding the distance between the transducer elements, along the pipe axis, for which maximum SNR is achieved. This distance depends on the sound speed, thickness and...article 2021
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Acoustic wave propagation in ultrasonic flow measurements is typically assumed to be linear and reciprocal.However, if the transmitting transducer generates a sufficiently high pressure, nonlinear wave propagation effects become significant. In flow measurements, this would translate into more information to estimate the flow and therefore a...article 2021
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Sabbadini, A. (author), Caenen, A. (author), Keijzer, L.B.H. (author), van Neer, P.L. (author), Vos, H.J. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Shear wave elastography (SWE) has the potential to determine cardiac tissue stiffness from non-invasive shear wave speed measurements, important, e.g., for predicting heart failure. Previous studies showed that waves traveling in the interventricular septum (IVS) may display Lamb-like dispersive behaviour, introducing a thickness-frequency...article 2021
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van Es, M.H. (author), Quesson, B.A.J. (author), Mohtashami, A. (author), Piras, D. (author), Hatakeyama, K. (author), Fillinger, L. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author)In order to extract ever more performance from semiconductor devices on the same device area, the semiconductor industry is moving towards device structures with increasingly complex material combinations and 3D geometries. To ensure cost effective fabrication of next generation devices, metrology solutions are needed that tackle the specific...conference paper 2020
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Ochoa, P.A. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Bernedictus, R. (author)A reliable damage diagnostic by ultrasonic guided wave (GW) based structural health monitoring (SHM) can only be achieved if the physical interactions between wave propagation, the SHM system and environmental factors are fully understood. The purpose of this research was to gain knowledge about the effects of high-amplitude low-frequency...article 2020
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D.M. (author), Pertijs, M.A.P. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Verweij, M.D. (author)Current ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters are manually calibrated. This process is based on manual placement of two single-element transducers along a pipe wall. Due to the usually unknown pipe properties and inhomogeneities in the pipe geometry, the axial distance of the transducers needs to be manually calibrated to align the location of the...conference paper 2019
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Saeed, A. (author), Volker, A.W.F. (author), Martina, Q. (author), Alalouni, A. (author)Scale and corrosion affect the production certainty of oil and gas well. Scale build-up reduces flow and ultimately could shut down production when it block to tubing completely. Corrosion of the tubing wall occurs very often simultaneously with scale build-up and affects the integrity of the tubing wall. Vital information about the integrity is...conference paper 2019
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Tamer, M.S. (author), van Es, M.H. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author), van der Lans, M.J. (author)Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) has emerged as a metrology solution for the semiconductor industry enabling high throughput defect review and high resolution 3D metrology. TNO has developed a Subsurface Ultrasonic Resonant Force Microscopy (SSURFM) for non-destructive, high resolution imaging of features buried under one or more layers of...other 2019
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- Sprung, D. (author), Sucher, E. (author), Grossmann, P. (author), Kociok, T. (author), van Eijk, A.M.J. (author), Stein, K. (author) conference paper 2019
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van Es, M.H. (author), van Riel, M.C.J.M. (author), Duivenvoorde, T. (author), Sadeghian Marnani, H. (author)Scanning Subsurface Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (SSURFM) relies on high frequency ultrasound in combination with Atomic Force Microscopy to detect viscoelastic properties of buried materials with high spatial resolution. The key ingredient is a very high frequency ultrasound wave which is amplitude modulated at the sensing cantilevers resonance...other 2019
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Massaad, J. (author), van Neer, P.L.M.J. (author), van Willigen, D. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Pertijs, M. (author), Verweij, M. (author)Typically, ultrasonic flow meters assume linear wave propagation. Nevertheless, if the transducers of an ultrasonic flow sensor excite a pressure wave with a high amplitude, nonlinear wave propagation effects become significant. The appearance of higher harmonics increases the bandwidth of the received signal, which may potentially lead to a...conference paper 2018
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Sucher, E. (author), Sprung, D. (author), Kremer, M. (author), Kociok, T. (author), Van Eijk, A.M.J. (author), Stein, K. (author)Wave propagation of electro-optical systems, lasers or imaging depends on the state of the atmosphere their beams are passing through. Fluctuations in the refractive index of air are responsible for signal attenuation and image degradation. This atmospheric effect is called optical turbulence and its strength is quantified by the structure...conference paper 2018
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Sprung, D. (author), Sucher, E. (author), van Eijk, A.M.J. (author), Eisele, C. (author), Seiffer, D. (author), Stein, K. (author)A field trial was performed in the arid scrub area of White Sands, NM /USA in October 2017 investigating the atmospheric influence on imaging and sensor performance. In this paper we focus on the strength of optical turbulence. Optical turbulence is described by the structure function parameter of the refractive index Cn 2. It is responsible for...conference paper 2018