Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.

Machine generated contents note: LIST OF FIGURES xi -- PREFACE xvii -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi -- I Introduction -- What is Ultrasonics? 1 -- How has UT Technology Progressed? 1 -- What Are Some Current Industrial/Manufacturing Applications -- of UT? 2 -- What Are the Major Medical Applications of UT? 5 -- What Are Some Unique Applications of UT? 7 -- 2 Definitions and Background -- What is a Wave? 9 -- What are the Quantitative Measures of a Wave? 14 -- What is Elasticity? 17 -- What are the Units of Elasticity, Density, and Wavespeed? 22 -- 3 Wave Propagation Concepts -- What are the Types of Elastic Waves? 25 -- What is a UT Beam? 35 -- How Does a Propagating Wave Change? 40 -- 4 Wave Interactions -- How Do Two or More Waves Interact? 45 -- How Does a Wave Interact with a Nonuniform Object? 61 -- 5 Hardware: Equipment Concepts -- 6 Software: Data Processing -- What Does Software Do? 85 -- A. What are the Types of Time-Domain Analyses? 86 -- B. What Are the Types of Spectral Analysis? 101 -- C. What Statistical Measurements Are Taken? 108 -- D. What Is Imaging? 117 -- APPENDIX I -- Stress, Strain, and Elasticity (Also Vectors and Tensors) 121 -- A. Elasticity 121 -- B. Stress 122 -- C. Strain 128 -- D. Alternative Indicial Notation 130 -- APPENDIX 2 -- The Generalized Hooke's Law 131 -- A. Hooke's Law 131 -- B. Stiffness in Rotated Axes 132 -- C. Special Classes of Elastic Materials 133 -- APPENDIX 3 -- States of Stress or Strain in Waves 139 -- A. States of Uniaxial Stress or Strain 139 -- B. Uniaxial Stress-Strain Relationships 143 -- APPENDIX 4 -- Balance of Forces and Newton's Law of Inertia 147 -- A. One-Dimensional System 148 -- B. Three-Dimensional Systems 148 -- APPENDIX 5 -- Theory of Wave Propagation 151 -- A. One-Dimensional Systems 151 -- B. Three-Dimensional Systems 154 -- C. Wave Excitations 155 -- APPENDIX 6 -- Solutions to the Wave Equations 159 -- A. Fundamental Solution Types 159 -- B. Separation of Variables 163 -- C. Plane Waves in Two or Three Dimensions 163 -- D. Plane Wave Solutions 165 -- APPENDIX 7 -- Dispersion, Group Velocity 169 -- A. Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Media 170 -- B. Wave Propagation in a Thick Rod 171 -- C. Bending Waves 172 -- APPENDIX 8 -- Transducer Beam Forming 175 -- A. Simplified Analysis of Beam Forming 175 -- B. Analysis of Radial Variation over Beam 176 -- C. Analysis of Axial Variation of BeamStrength 180 -- APPENDIX 9 -- Solutions for Anisotropy 183 -- A. Wavespeed 184 -- B. Material (Particle) Motion and the Principal Directions (Vectors) -- 186 -- C. Special Cases 187 -- D. Group Velocity 191 -- APPENDIX 10 -- Oblique Interactions between Waves and Boundaries 195 -- A. Oblique Free-Surface Reflection of a Longitudinal Wave 195 -- B. Oblique Free Surface Reflection of a Transverse Wave 198 -- C. Refraction (Oblique Transmission) of a Longitudinal or Trans- -- verse Wave 200 -- D. Rayleigh Waves 201 -- APPENDIX I I -- Lateral Stress and Strain in Rods under Axial Loads 205 -- A. Simple Approximation for Thin Rods 205 -- B. The Mindlin-Herrmann Approximation 206 -- APPENDIX 12 -- Bending Waves in Beams and Plates 21 1 -- A. Bending of Beams 211 -- B. Thin Plates 217 -- APPENDIX 13 -- Time-Domain Analysis 221 -- A. The Hilbert Transform and the Analytic Envelope and Phase -- 221 -- B. Time-Domain Signal Conditioning 223 -- REFERENCES 229 -- INDEX 231.