Since the beginning of the applications of non-destructive testing/evaluation (NDT/NDE)
techniques, efforts have been made consistently to improve their detection sensitivity and …

Over the past several decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has advanced from a
technique used primarily for surface topography imaging to one capable of characterizing a …

The nature of non-crystalline materials causes the local potential energy of a cluster of
atoms or molecules to vary significantly in space. Different configurations of an ensemble of …

Full matrix capture coupled with total focusing method (FMC-TFM) is one of the most
advanced and popular phased array ultrasonic techniques used to achieve simultaneous …

This book edited by Tribikram Kundu is an expanded and updated version of Ultrasonic
Nondestructive Evaluation: Engineering and Biological Material Characterization (CRC …

Polymeric thin films have been awakening continuous and growing interest for application in
nanotechnology. For such applications, the assessment of their (nano) mechanical …

The mechanical behavior of materials depends to a large extent on their properties at the
nanoscale and, therefore, novel characterization techniques with sub-micron spatial …

The goal of this lecture is to provide an overview of the recent advances in high-resolution
ultrasonic imaging principles and techniques and their biomedical applications. This lecture …

A new methodology for determining the radial elastic modulus of a one-dimensional
nanostructure laid on a substrate has been developed. The methodology consists of the …

In this work, a new procedure is demonstrated to retrieve the conservative and dissipative
contributions to contact resonance atomic force microscopy (CR-AFM) measurements from …