TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Harrer, Andrea A1 - Prager, Jens A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Beck, Uwe A1 - Lange, Thorid A1 - Weise, Matthias T1 - A resonance-free nano-film airborne ultrasound emitter T2 - 39th Annual review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation (Proceedings) N2 - In this contribution we present a novel thermo-acoustic approach for the generation of broad band airborne ultrasound and investigate the applicability of resonance-free thermo-acoustic emitters for very short high pressure airborne ultrasound pulses. We report on measurements of thermo-acoustic emitter consisting of a 30 nm thin metallic film on a usual soda-lime glass substrate, generating sound pressure values of more than 140 dB at 60 mm distance from the transducer and compare the results with conventional piezoelectric airborne ultrasound transducers. Our experimental investigations show that such thermo-acoustic devices can be used as broad band emitters using pulse excitation. T2 - 39th Annual review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation CY - Denver, Colorado, USA DA - 2012-07-15 KW - Thermo-acoustic KW - Broad band airborne ultrasound KW - High pressure airborne ultrasound KW - Resonance free ultrasound transducer KW - Broad band ultrasonic emitter KW - Measurement sound particle velocity PY - 2013 SN - 978-0-7354-1129-6 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789225 SN - 0094-243X SN - 1551-7616 N1 - Serientitel: AIP conference proceedings – Series title: AIP conference proceedings VL - 1511 SP - 1541 EP - 1546 AN - OPUS4-27790 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Prager, Jens A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Weise, Matthias T1 - Broadband and resonance-free sensing and emitting of airborne ultrasound T2 - AMA-Konferenz T2 - AMA-Konferenz CY - Nürnberg, Deutschland DA - 2015-05-20 PY - 2015 AN - OPUS4-33233 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Harrer, Andrea A1 - Prager, Jens A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Guderian, Matthias A1 - Meyer-Plath, Asmus ED - Linde, B. B. J. ED - Paczkowski, J. ED - Ponikwicki, N. T1 - Carbon nanomaterials as broadband airborne ultrasound transducer T2 - International congress on ultrasonics N2 - A method has been developed for the generation of airborne ultrasound using the thermoacoustic principle applied to carbon materials at the micro- and nanoscale. Such materials are shown to be capable to emitting the ultrasound. We tested the acoustic performance of electrospun polyacrylonitrile-derived carbon nanofibers tissues and determined the sound pressure for frequencies up to 350 kHz. The experimental results are compared to analytic calculations. T2 - International congress on ultrasonics CY - Gdansk, Poland DA - 2011-09-05 KW - Thermoacoustic KW - Airborne ultrasound transducer KW - Sound pressure PY - 2012 SN - 978-0-7354-1019-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703262 SN - 0094-243X N1 - Serientitel: AIP conference proceedings – Series title: AIP conference proceedings IS - 1433 SP - 624 EP - 627 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY AN - OPUS4-26788 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Prager, Jens A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Harrer, Andrea A1 - Guderian, Matthias A1 - Meyer-Plath, Asmus T1 - Characterisierung eines neuartigen, thermoakustischen Ultraschallwandlers T2 - 18. Workshop "Physikalische Akustik" T2 - 18. Workshop "Physikalische Akustik" CY - Bad Honnef, Germany DA - 2011-10-20 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-26219 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Prager, Jens ED - Kollmeier, B. T1 - Ein neues Modell zur Beschreibung der thermo-akustischen Schallerzeugung T2 - DAGA 2014 - 40. Jahrestagung für Akustik - Fortschritte der Akustik N2 - In unserem Beitrag präsentieren wir ein verallgemeinertes physikalisches Modell der thermischen Schallerzeugung. Im Gegensatz zur existierenden analytischen Näherungen erlaubt es eine exakte analytische Vorhersage des thermisch generierten Schalldrucks in Fluiden und Festkörpern, berücksichtigt die akustischen Nahefeld- und Schallschwächungseffekte und ist anwendbar für beliebige thermische Energiequellen, wie stromdurchflossene elektrische Leiter aber auch chemische Reaktionen, Plasmabrennen oder Laseranregung. Zur Verifikation des Modells vergleichen wir die analytischen Ergebnisse mit experimentellen Schalldruckmessungen an thermo-akustischen Emittern in Luft in einem Frequenzband von 4 kHz bis 1 MHz. Zusätzlich wurde die Effizienz der Wandler mit der von konventionellen piezoelektrischen Luftultraschallwandlern verglichen. Da die Schallerzeugung ohne mechanisch bewegliche Komponenten auskommt, arbeiten die thermo-akustischen Emitter resonanzfrei. Somit ist es möglich, beliebig geformte Schallsignale exakt und frei von Nachschwingen zu erzeugen. Thermo-akustische Schallemitter haben damit das Potenzial für eine breite Anwendung in der angewandten Akustik als leistungsfähige und resonanzfreie Schallsender mit einer Bandbreite bis in den Subgigahertz-Bereich. T2 - DAGA 2014 - 40. Jahrestagung für Akustik CY - Oldenburg, Germany DA - 10.03.2014 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-939296-06-5 SP - 790 EP - 791 AN - OPUS4-31132 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Brackrock, Daniel T1 - Evolution of modern NDT-methods for the inspection of lightweight components T2 - 12th International conference of the Slovenian society for non-destructive testing - Application of contemporary non-destructive testing in engineering (Proceedings) N2 - NDT is a multidisciplinary research area fusing the disciplines of natural Science and engineering. Particularly in the early development stages of a new testing method, feasibility investigations focus on the fundamental physical interaction between the sensing mechanism and specimen. Research activities during subsequent phases of modular prototype development, technical System Integration and Validation primarily attempt to solve the practical engineering and real-life aspects of a testing method. We show several examples of new methods in different stages of development and highlight the potential for further industrial use. The first section deals with Steel surfaces of lightweight components which are inspected with pm-sized magneto resistive sensor arrays. This quantitative magnetic stray field approach combines high spatial resolution and very high sensitivity, enabling the user to detect even very small micro-defects. Tuming to CFRP components we also show new developments in airbome ultrasonic testing. Here we use ferroelectret foils to reduce the acoustical mismatch between transducer and air, which enhances the signal-to-noise ratio. A further example illuminates the use of metallic nano layers as a broadband thermo acoustical emitter. Their use provides both high sound pressures and very broadband Signal characteristics. When it comes to CFRP components and other anisotropic and highly Scattering materials, ultrasonic matrix arrays in conjunction with many angles of incidences per transducer position can help to enhance the statistics of a testing problem. In the field of conventional water-coupled UT testing we also show the use of matrix array transducers providing a tomographic-like 3D-image of impact damage in CFRP samples. T2 - 12th International conference of the Slovenian society for non-destructive testing - Application of contemporary non-destructive testing in engineering CY - Portoroz, Slovenia DA - 04.09.2013 KW - GMR-sensors arrays KW - Air coupled ultrasonics KW - Thermo acoustical transducers KW - Matrix arrays PY - 2013 SN - 978-961-93537-0-7 SP - 303 EP - 314 AN - OPUS4-29245 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Prager, Jens T1 - Influence of thermodynamic properties of a thermo-acoustic emitter on the efficiency of thermal airborne ultrasound generation JF - Ultrasonics N2 - In this work we experimentally verify the theoretical prediction of the recently published Energy Density Fluctuation Model (EDF-model) of thermo-acoustic sound generation. Particularly, we investigate experimentally the influence of thermal inertia of an electrically conductive film on the efficiency of thermal airborne ultrasound generation predicted by the EDF-model. Unlike widely used theories, the EDF-model predicts that the thermal inertia of the electrically conductive film is a frequency-dependent parameter. Its influence grows non-linearly with the increase of excitation frequency and reduces the efficiency of the ultrasound generation. Thus, this parameter is the major limiting factor for the efficient thermal airborne ultrasound generation in the MHz-range. To verify this theoretical prediction experimentally, five thermo-acoustic emitter samples consisting of Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) coatings of different thicknesses (from 65 nm to 1.44 lm) on quartz glass substrates were tested for airborne ultrasound generation in a frequency range from 10 kHz to 800 kHz. For the measurement of thermally generated sound pressures a laser Doppler vibrometer combined with a 12 lm thin polyethylene foil was used as the sound pressure detector. All tested thermo-acoustic emitter samples showed a resonance-free frequency response in the entire tested frequency range. The thermal inertia of the heat producing film acts as a low-pass filter and reduces the generated sound pressure with the increasing excitation frequency and the ITO film thickness. The difference of generated sound pressure levels for samples with 65 nm and 1.44 lm thickness is in the order of about 6 dB at 50 kHz and of about 12 dB at 500 kHz. A comparison of sound pressure levels measured experimentally and those predicted by the EDF-model shows for all tested emitter samples a relative error of less than ±6%. Thus, experimental results confirm the prediction of the EDF-model and show that the model can be applied for design and optimization of thermo-acoustic airborne ultrasound emitters. KW - Thermophone KW - Thermo-acoustic effect KW - Thermal sound generation KW - Resonance-free ultrasound emitter KW - Energy density fluctuation KW - Thermal inertia PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2015.06.008 SN - 0041-624x VL - 63 SP - 16 EP - 22 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-34573 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim T1 - METALLIC NANOFILM AS RESONANCE-FREE AIRBORNE ULTRASOUND EMITTER T2 - International Ultrasonic Symposium IEEE 2012 T2 - International Ultrasonic Symposium IEEE 2012 CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 2012-10-07 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-26760 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Harrer, Andrea A1 - Prager, Jens A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Beck, Uwe A1 - Lange, Thorid A1 - Weise, Matthias T1 - Metallic nanofilm as resonance-free airborne ultrasound emitter T2 - IUS 2012 - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Proceedings) N2 - A novel approach for the generation of broadband airborne ultrasound by using the thermo-acoustic effect is presented in this contribution. We investigate the applicability of resonance-free thermo-acoustic emitters for generation of very short high pressure airborne ultrasound pulses. A thermoacoustic emitter consisting of a 30 nm thin metallic film on a usual soda-lime glass substrate generates sound pressure values of more than 140 dB at 60 mm distance. The results are compared with conventional piezoelectric airborne ultrasound transducers. Our investigations show the applicability of the thermo-acoustic devices for broadband and high pressure ultrasound emitters using pulse excitation. T2 - 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 2012-10-07 KW - Thermo-acoustic KW - Broadband airborne ultrasound KW - Resonance-free ultrasound transducer KW - High pressure airborne ultrasound KW - Sound particle velocity measurement PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-4673-4562-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0241 SN - 1948-5719 SP - 965 EP - 967 AN - OPUS4-29152 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Dohse, Elmar A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Weise, Matthias A1 - Beck, Uwe T1 - Novel air-coupled ultrasonic transducer combining the thermoacoustic with the piezoelectric effect T2 - Proceedings of WCNDT 2016 N2 - In recent years, there has been an increasing industrial demand for one-sided inspection of various structures by means of air-coupled ultrasonic technique. Lightweight structures based on carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers may have very complex shapes, making air-coupled transmission difficult or even impossible. The inspection of concrete structures is another example where one-sided inspection is required. To address these challenges a new type of transducer for air-coupled pulse-echo inspection was developed, which unites two principles: thermoacoustic emission and piezoelectric reception. The thermoacoustic emitter is a titanium electrode with a thickness of several tens of nanometer. This electrode was deposited onto charged cellular polypropylene, which serves as a piezoelectric receiver. The thermoacoustic transmission is based on a transformation of the thermal energy of an electrically heated electrode into the acoustic energy of an ultrasonic wave. Thermoacoustic emitters provide resonance-free behaviour and thus extremely broadband pulses. Charged cellular polypropylene is piezoelectric due to the polarization of its cells and it is well matched to air, with a Young modulus in the order of magnitude of MPa. In this contribution we present some pulse-echo measurements with the first prototypes of the combined thermoacoustic-piezoelectric transducer. T2 - World Conference of Non-Destructive Testing CY - Munich, Germany DA - 13.6.2016 KW - Thermoacoustic KW - Piezoelectric KW - Ultrasonic transducer KW - Ferroelectret PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-367151 VL - 158 SP - Mo.1.F.4, 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-36715 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -