Nondestructive damage assessment in fiber reinforced composites with the pulsed ultrasonic polar scan

M Kersemans, I De Baere, J Degrieck… - Polymer Testing, 2014 - Elsevier
This study investigates the use of both amplitude and time-of-flight based pulsed ultrasonic
polar scan (P-UPS) as a sophisticated non-destructive damage sensor for fiber reinforced …

Identification of the elastic properties of isotropic and orthotropic thin-plate materials with the pulsed ultrasonic polar scan

M Kersemans, A Martens, N Lammens… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
Already in the early 1980's, it has been conjectured that the pulsed ultrasonic polar scan (P-
UPS) provides a unique fingerprint of the underlying mechanical elasticity tensor at the …

The pulsed ultrasonic backscatter polar scan and its applications for NDT and material characterization

M Kersemans, W Van Paepegem, B Lemmens… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
In a conventional ultrasonic polar scan (UPS) experiment, the amplitude or time-of-flight-
diffraction (TOFD) values of the transmitted and/or reflected acoustic pulse are recorded for a …

The quasi-harmonic ultrasonic polar scan for material characterization: experiment and numerical modeling

M Kersemans, A Martens, K Van Den Abeele… - Ultrasonics, 2015 - Elsevier
Conventionally, the ultrasonic polar scan (UPS) records the amplitude or time-of-flight in
transmission using short ultrasonic pulses for a wide range of incidence angles, resulting in …

Efficient extraction of the directional wave curves from a pulsed ultrasonic polar scan experiment

M Kersemans, N Lammens… - … conference for non …, 2013 - biblio.ugent.be
The pulsed ultrasonic polar scan (UPS) technique provides an amplitude map with
characteristic contours reflecting the critical bulk wave angles, which relate to the …