Shear horizontal (SH) waves are of great importance in structural health monitoring (SHM)
and nondestructive testing (NDT), since the lowest order SH wave in isotropic plates is non …

Key requirements to boost the applicability of ultrasonic systems for in situ, real-time
operations are low hardware complexity and low power consumption. These features are …

Periodic permanent magnet (PPM) array electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) can
efficiently generate and receive shear horizontal (SH) ultrasonic waves. Conventional PPM …

Shear horizontal (SH) guided waves are widely used in non-destructive evaluation and can
be generated by permanent magnet electromagnetic acoustic transducer (PPM EMATs) …

Shear horizontal (SH) waves are commonly generated by periodic permanent magnet
(PPM) electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) in metallic media. Conventional PPM …

Unidirectional excitation of a single-mode guided wave (GW) is of great significance in GW-
based structural health monitoring (SHM) and nondestructive testing (NDT). Currently, very …

Fatigue cracks in rib-to-deck joints of orthotropic steel decks (OSDs) endanger the safety of
bridges and are difficult to detect. This paper proposes to monitor fatigue cracks using …

Focusing the energy of a guided wave along a desired direction is of great significance in
structural health monitoring (SHM), since it can improve the sensitivity to defects and reduce …

Due to the complex polarizations of waves in elastic media, achieving broadband wave
engineering in elastic metamaterials (EMMs) proves to be much more difficult than in the …

Guided-wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) technology is of great importance for
real-time inspection of high-temperature structures. The fundamental shear horizontal (SH 0) …