High-frequency tortuosity relaxation in open-cell foams

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 772-778

  Gomez Alvarez Arenas T E ^a   Gonzalez Gomez I ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-COUPLED; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUNDS; CELL GEOMETRIES; FOURIER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOWER FREQUENCIES; OPEN-CELL; OPEN-CELL FOAMS; POLYMERIC FOAMS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION LOSS; UNIT CELL MODELS; WORKING FREQUENCY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; PHASE VELOCITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; ULTRASONICS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASOUND; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SONICATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 67650678154     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1099     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. L. J. Gibson and M. F. Ashby, Cellular Solids. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
2. T. E. Gómez Alvarez-Arenas, A. Ramos, J. L. San Emeterio, I. Calvo, and J. M. Mieres, "Spectral ultrasonic evaluation of fibrereinforced polymers for civil engineering," in Proc. Int. Congr. Ultrasonics, Vienna, April 9-13, 2007, paper no. 1594.
3. M. A. Biot, "Theory of propagation of elastic waves in a fluid-saturated porous solid. I. Low frequency range," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 168-178, 1956.
4. M. A. Biot, "Theory of propagation of elastic waves in a fluid-saturated porous solid. II. Higher frequency range," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 179-191, 1956.
5. P. Nagy, L. Adler, and B. Bonner, "Slow wave propagation in airfilled porous materials and natural rocks," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 56, no. 25, pp. 2504-2506, 1990.
6. J. F. Allard, B. Castagned, M. Henry, and W. Luriks, "Evaluation of tortuosity in acoustic porous materials saturated by air," Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 754-755, 1994.
7. T. E. Gómez Alvarez-Arenas and I. González Gómez, "Simultaneous determination of apparent tortuosity and microstructure length scale and shape: Application to rigid open cell foams," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 88, no. 22, art. no. 221910, 2006.
8. T. E. Gómez Alvarez-Arenas and I. González Gómez, "Spatial normalisation of the high-frequency ultrasound energy loss in open-cell foams," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 90, no. 20, art. no. 201903, 2007.
9. T. E. Gómez Álvarez-Arenas, I. González Gómez, and A. Bazán, "Study of the apparent tortuosity of reticulated foams using phase spectroscopy and air-coupled ultrasound," in Proc. Int. Congr. Ultrasonics, Vienna, April 9-13, 2007, paper no. 1596.
10. A. Celzard, J. F. Marêché, and A. Perri, "Transport in porous graphite: Gas permeation and ion diffusion experiments," Fuel Process. Technol., vol. 77-78, pp. 467-473, Jun. 2002.
11. D. L. Johnson, J. Koplik, and L. M. Schwartz, "New pore-size par rameter characterizing transport in porous media," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 57, pp. 2564-2567, Nov. 1986.
12. D. Weaire and R. Phelan, "A counter-example to Kelvin's conjecture on minimal surfaces," Philos. Mag. Lett., vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 107-110, 1994.
13. W. Sachse and Y. H. Pao, "On the determination of phase and group velocities of dispersive waves in solids," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 4320-4327, 1978.
14. T. E. Gómez Alvarez-Arenas, "Acoustic impedance matching of piezoelectric transducers to the air," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 624-633, May 2004.
15. W. M. D. Wright and D. A. Hutchins, "Air-coupled ultrasonic testing of metals using broadband pulses in through-transmission," Ultrasonics, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 19-22, 1999.
16. S. P. Kelly, G. Hayward, and T. E. Gómez Álvarez-Arenas, "Characterization and assessment of an integrated matching layer for aircoupled ultrasonic applications," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 1314-1323, Oct. 2004.
17. A. Montillet, J. Comiti, and J. Legrand, "Determination of structural parameters of metallic foams from permeametry measurements," J. Mater. Sci., vol. 27, no. 16, pp. 4460-4464, 1992.