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A high amplitude, time reversal acoustic non-contact excitation (trance)
Pierre-Yves Le Bas1, T J Ulrich, Brian E Anderson
1Geophysics Group EES-17, MS D446, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. pylb@lanl.gov
Abstract:
This paper describes the principle behind a high amplitude non-contact acoustic source based on the principle of time reversal (TR), a process to focus energy at a point in space. By doing the TR in an air filled, hollow cavity and using a laser vibrometer in the calibration of the system, a non-contact source may be created. This source is proven to be more energetic than an off the shelf focused ultrasound transducer. A scaled up version of the proposed source has the potential to allow nondestructive evaluation processes that require high amplitude, such as nonlinear elastic wave spectroscopy (NEWS) techniques.
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