Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic NDE for Structure and Material Characterization

Tribikram Kundu is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Kundu has made significant and original contributions to both basic and applied research in nondestructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) by ultrasonic and electromagnetic techniques. His fundamental research interests are in the analysis of elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation in multilayered solids, fracture mechanics, biomechanics, and computational mechanics. Dr. Kundu has published widely, including seven books, 15 book chapters, and 270 technical papers. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and a life member of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America (AvHAA). He is also the chairman of the SPIE yearly conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems. He has been serving as the associate editor of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology since 2006 and of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal since 2008. Dr. Kundu has been the advisory editor of the Structural Longevity journal since its inauguration in 2009 and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Civil Engineering Science.

• Mechanics of Elastic Waves and Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Modeling of Ultrasonic Fields by Distributed Point Source Method. Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation. Distributed Point Source Method for Imaging in Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Problems. Guided Waves for Plate and Pipe Inspection. Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Theory and Applications of Laser Ultrasonic Techniques. Material Characterization by Nonlinear Ultrasonic Technique. Toward Structural Health Monitoring Solutions for Bolted Joints. Measurement of the Elastic Properties of Solids by Brillouin Spectroscopy. Theory and Applications of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy and Scanning Near-Field Acoustic Imaging. Ultrasonic Characterization of Biological Cells. Ultrasonic Characterization of Hard Tissues. Clinical Applications of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Terahertz Radiation for Nondestructive Evaluation. Fiber-Optic Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring. Index.

"The book comprises an essential reference for researchers and graduate students working in ultrasonic or electromagnetic NDE. The different chapters contributed by recognized experts in the field cover both fundamental theory as well as current research areas."—Dr. Paul Fromme, University College London, UK"Professor Kundu is to be congratulated for bringing together this list of experts, each with many years of experience, as contributors to this much needed book. The book provides a comprehensive and rigorous approach of the fundamentals of linear and nonlinear ultrasonics and electromagnetic methods, including a chapter on the newly emerging THz technique. The book also provides enough advanced engineering and biological applications to make the reader familiar with these technologies, including applications of guided waves, nonlinear ultrasonics, laser-ultrasonics, acoustic microscopy, and fiber optics. This makes this book an excellent text for a senior/first-year graduate course in nondestructive testing and evaluation, or as a text in a course in engineering and biological materials characterization. It is also an excellent reference book for practicing engineers and scientists, and I highly recommend it."—Henrique Reis, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA"The authors present theory and applications in details for the readers to appreciate the challenges involved and opportunities for significant advancement. Adequate references are included for further exploration. Overall, some of the chapters in this book are a good reference source of information on the state-of-the-art of current researches. They will be very useful to graduate students and researchers."––Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 134, No. 2, August 2013