Abstract
Ultrasonic transducers are used both as transmitters to project a beam of sound into a material and as receivers to convert received sound into electrical energy. Chapter 8 models the sound beam generated by bulk wave transducers acting as transmitters. In later chapters we show that the properties of both transmitted and received sound beams appear in an LTI model in the form of diffraction correction terms. Thus explicit diffraction correction expressions are obtained here for both focused and unfocused transducers in many common testing configurations.
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Schmerr, L.W. (1998). Ultrasonic Transducer Radiation. In: Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0142-2_8
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