Ultrasonic melt processing (UMP) has garnered significant attention from both academic and industrial communities as a promising solution to critical challenges in the metal casting industry. This technique offers a clean, environmentally friendly, a...
Apart from non-enzymatic browning, polyphenol oxidase (PPO) also plays a role in the browning reaction of orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck) juice, and needs to be inactivated during the processing. In this study, the protein with high PPO activity was...
Although numerous references present the beneficial effects on surface integrity of ultrasonic vibration-assisted ball burnishing (UVABB), nothing has been reported about the dynamic behavior of the UVABB tool, workpiece, and machine triad during the...
The in situ measurement of thick oil slick thickness (>0.5 mm) and area in real time in order to estimate the volume of an oil spill is very important for determining the oil spill response strategy and evaluating the oil spill disposal efficiency...
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) 316L stainless steel unavoidably introduces defects such as porosity, oxide inclusions, and lack of fusion due to the inherent characteristics of the process. These defects can significantly affect the mechanica...
Over the past decade, ultrasonic cleaners have been widely used in many industries. Now, this technology is finding its way into homes for vegetable, fruit, and clothes cleaning. In widely used ultrasonic cleaners, piezoelectric transducers are exter...
Road surface monitoring is an essential problem in providing smooth road infrastructure to commuters. This paper proposed an efficient road surface monitoring using an ultrasonic sensor and image processing technique. A novel cost-effective system, w...
The transit-time ultrasonic gas flowmeter plays a vital part in the measurement field with its unique advantages. In recent years, it has developed into a research hotspot in the field of gas flow measurement. However, while the ultrasonic signal pro...
Fatigue property is a key evaluation index for the service reliability of railway axle. In this work, the effect of ultrasonic surface rolling processing (USRP) on the surface characteristic and fatigue property was investigated in an EA4T axle steel...
Ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) systems are broadly utilised in several industry sectors where the structural integrity is of concern, in particular, for pipeline inspection. In most cases, the received signal is very noisy due to the presence of unwant...
This work proposes a novel hybrid signal processing technique to extract information on disbond-type defects from a single B-scan in the process of non-destructive testing (NDT) of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) material using ultrasonic guide...
Hot deformation constitutive analysis and processing maps of ultrasonic melt treated (UST) A5052 alloy were carried out based on a hot torsion test in this study. The addition of the Al–Ti master alloy as a grain refiner with no UST produced a...
Modern condition monitoring and industrial fault prediction have advanced to include intelligent techniques, aiming to improve reliability, productivity, and safety. The integration of ultrasonic signal processing with various machine learning (ML) m...
Quantitative ultrasound techniques for assessment of bone quality have been attracting significant research attention. The axial transmission technique, which involves analysis of ultrasonic guided waves propagating along cortical bone, has been prop...
The Ti6Al4V alloy has been widely used in aerospace equipment and medical devices. However, the poor wear resistance of the Ti6Al4V alloy hinders its further engineering application. In this study, the ultrasonic strengthening grinding process (USGP)...
Ultrasonic surface rolling processing (USRP) is a new method to improve the fatigue performance of titanium alloy, and repeated processing pass is an important factor that affects its strengthening effect. The effect of USRP passes on the surface mic...
AZ91D Mg alloy was treated by ultrasonic surface rolling processing (USRP) and subsequent recovery treatment at different temperatures. The dry sliding friction test was performed to investigate the effects of USRP and subsequent recovery treatment o...
Pipeline systems are prone to defects due to the harsh service conditions, which may induce catastrophic failure if found not in time. Ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) testing provides a convenient option for pipeline detection, showing high-efficiency,...
Ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) nondestructive testing suffers from poor signal interpretation accuracy caused by the coherent noise that is related to dispersion, multi-mode and mode conversion. In order to split the L(0,2) UGW from the coherent noise,...
This work employed a design-of-experiments (DoE) strategy, specifically a 23 full factorial design, to assess how suspension concentration (0.001–0.002 g/mL), substrate temperature (60–80 °C), and deposition height (10–15 cm) in...
Nanoparticle properties are correlated to their size, size distribution, and shape; it is essential to accurately measure these features in the field of nanoscience. In this study, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized with the ultrasonic-spr...
This paper presents an integrated high temperature ultrasonic transducer (HTUT) on a sensor insert and its application for real-time diagnostics of the conventional hot embossing process to fabricate V-cut patterns. The sensor was directly deposited...
Silicon carbide (SiC) devices have become one of the key research directions in the field of power electronics. However, due to the limitation of the SiC wafer growth process and processing capacity, SiC devices, such as SiC MOSFET (Metal-oxide-semic...
The freeze-drying process removes water from a product through freezing, sublimation and desorption procedures. However, the extreme conditions of the freeze-drying environment, such as the limited space, vacuum and freezing temperatures of as much a...
The advancement of efficient carbon capture technology is vital for the transition to a net-zero carbon future. Critical developments in ultrasonic irradiation can be used to enhance the conventional CO2 absorption process. For example, sonophysical...
The freezing stage governs several critical parameters of the freeze drying process and the quality of the resulting lyophilized products. This paper presents an integrated ultrasonic transducer (UT) in a stainless steel bottle and its application to...
Ultrasonic-assisted wire–arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) can refine microstructures, enhancing performance and improving stress concentration and anisotropy. It has important application prospects in aerospace, weaponry, energy, transportatio...
The sterilization of liquid eggs plays a crucial role in the production of liquid egg products. Traditional pasteurization techniques can easily cause protein denaturation, while non-thermal sterilization techniques are often constrained by processin...
Ultrasonic surface rolling process (USRP) is a novel surface severe plastic deformation (SPD) method that integrates ultrasonic impact peening (UIP) and deep rolling (DR) to enhance the surface integrity and surface mechanical properties of engineeri...
In an era of rapid technological development, ultrasound technology is being used in a wide range of industries. The use of ultrasound technology in fruit and vegetable processing to improve production efficiency and product quality has been an impor...
Corrosion is one of the critical factors leading to the failure of steel structures. Ultrasonic C-scans are widely used to identify corrosion damage. Limited by the range of C-scans, multiple C-scans are usually required to cover the whole component....
This review discusses recent research findings spanning the last two decades concerning ultrasonic technologies applicable to the oil, gas, and coal sectors. Various experiments conducted in laboratories have demonstrated the efficacy, cost-effective...
In this paper, the corrosion resistance of four GCr15 steel samples has been investigated. Three samples were initially surface-treated by ultrasonic shot peening (USP), a dry ultrasonic strengthening grinding process (DUSGP), and a wet ultrasonic st...
Micromachining has gained considerable interest across a wide range of applications. It ensures the production of microfeatures such as microchannels, micropockets, etc. Typically, the manufacturing of microchannels in bioceramics is a demanding task...
In order to study the influence of a novel current waveform control method of ultrasonic-frequency pulse (UFP) on arc behaviour, metal transfer process and the welds formation, monitoring system and image processing algorithms were employed for extra...
Ultrasonic processing has a great potential to transform waste from the food and agriculture industry into value-added products. In this review article, we discuss the use of ultrasound for the valorisation of food and agricultural waste. Ultrasonic...
A sustainable valorization process for puree processing from processed carrot discards (PDCs) was proposed by using multiple-pass ultrasonication with mechanical homogenization (MPUMH), optimized at 9 min ultrasonication followed by mechanical homoge...
Electrical discharge machining represents a non-conventional machining process, specifically designed for the effective fabrication of materials that are difficult to machine and for components with complex geometries. Many studies have been carried...
An ultrasonic sonar-based ranging technique is introduced for measuring full-field railroad crosstie (sleeper) deflections. Tie deflection measurements have numerous applications, such as detecting degrading ballast support conditions and evaluating...
When machining a small hole with high aspect ratio in EDM, it is hard for the flushing liquid entering the bottom gap and the debris could hardly be removed, which results in the accumulation of debris and affects the machining efficiency and machini...
The Spirulina maxima exact from a non-thermal ultrasonic process (UE) contains 17.5 mg/g of total chlorophyll, compared to 6.24 mg/g of chlorophyll derived from the conventional 70% ethanol extraction at 80 °C for 12 h (EE). The UE also showed re...
In this study, the tribological properties of three AISI 1045 steel samples were investigated. Two samples were treated with ultrasonic shot peening (USP) and ultrasonic strengthening grinding process (USGP), respectively, while the other one was onl...
With the rapid development of mechanical components, increasingly stringent demands are placed on steel properties—particularly tensile strength and rotating bending fatigue resistance. This study systematically investigates the effects of the...
Achieving carbon neutrality and alleviating the rural energy predicament are crucial aspects in rural areas, particularly in the severe cold regions of northeast China. Pellets serve as clean, renewable energy sources and are ideal alternative fuels....
Single-pressure and ultrasonic action have their own unique advantages in the treatment of metal melts. When the two are combined into a composite field, the advantages of a single physical field can be fully utilized. So, the cavitation and acoustic...
This paper presents a process for the fabrication of vacuum-sealed capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) arrays using glass reflow and anodic bonding techniques. Silicon through-wafer interconnects have been investigated by the glass...
Ultrasonic homogenization is an emerging technique with significant potential to modify the structure and functionality of food ingredients. This study evaluated the effect of ultrasonic homogenization on the rheological behavior and physical stabili...
This work has examined the influence of ultrasonic processing on acerola juice and its influence in the stability of the juice and in the availability of vitamins B, C, E, and pro-vitamin A. The study has evaluated the changes in these quality parame...
Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) has garnered significant interest in the aerospace and automotive industries for its structural lightweighting and multi-material joining capabilities. This paper details the investigation on the effect of proc...
The estimation of the size and location of defects in multi-layered composite structures by ultrasonic non-destructive testing using guided waves has attracted the attention of researchers for the last few decades. Although extensive signal processin...
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