Exploring the potential and recent advancement in laser Opto-ultrasonic detection for material characterization: A state-of-the-art review

H Sattar, Z Hu, W Zheng, J Zhou, MK Shahzad… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
The optimization and characterization of material properties pose a fundamental challenge
in ensuring the quality and service life of materials and components. Heat treatment …

An assessment of polarized light microscopy as a characterization method for crystal plasticity simulations

L van Wees, A Singh, M Obstalecki, P Shade, T Turner… - Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Polarized light microscopy is a large-area, high-resolution, high-throughput microstructural
characterization method for polycrystalline materials comprised of hexagonal close-packed …

Subsurface polycrystalline reconstruction based on full waveform inversion-A 2D numerical study

J He, D Borisov, JD Fleming, M Kasemer - Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Microstructural mapping of polycrystalline metallic alloys is a key component in predicting
macroscopic material behavior, and non-destructive subsurface polycrystalline imaging is a …

Finite-element and semi-analytical study of elastic wave propagation in strongly scattering polycrystals

M Huang, P Huthwaite, SI Rokhlin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This work studies scattering-induced elastic wave attenuation and phase velocity variation in
three-dimensional untextured cubic polycrystals with statistically equiaxed grains using the …

[HTML][HTML] Metallic material microstructure grain size measurements from backscattering signals in ultrasonic array data sets

W Wang, J Zhang, PD Wilcox - NDT & E International, 2025 - Elsevier
Ultrasound backscattering signals from material microstructures can be used to evaluate the
material microstructure grain size. This typically involves making pulse-echo immersion …

Surface acoustic wave attenuation in polycrystals: Numerical modeling using a statistical digital twin of an actual sample

T Grabec, IA Veres, M Ryzy - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain boundary scattering-induced attenuation and phase-velocity dispersion of Rayleigh-
type surface acoustic waves are studied with a time-domain finite-element method (FEM) …

Nondestructive measurement of the grain size of laser cladding coatings using a laser ultrasonic method

Y Li, S Hou, Y Chai, Y Zhou, Y Zou - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Due to the processing characteristics of laser cladding, the beads and joints of the laser
cladding coatings have different grain sizes. We used the laser ultrasonic (LU) method to …

[HTML][HTML] Von Kármán spatial correlation function to describe wave propagation in polycrystalline media

AP Argüelles - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Analytical functions that describe the spatial heterogeneity in polycrystalline media are
highly desirable. These mathematically tractable descriptors can be readily implemented in …

Appraising scattering theories for polycrystals of any symmetry using finite elements

M Huang, SI Rokhlin, MJS Lowe - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper uses three-dimensional grain-scale finite-element (FE) simulations to appraise
the classical scattering theory of plane longitudinal wave propagation in untextured …

Numerical dispersion and dissipation in 3D wave propagation for polycrystalline homogenization

F Liu, AP Argüelles, C Peco - Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
The engineering design of metamaterials with selected acoustic properties necessitates
adequate prediction of the elastic wave propagation across various domains and specific …