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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crack Detection Method for Wind Turbine Tower Bolts Using Ultrasonic Spiral Phased Array

open access: yesSensors
High-strength bolts are crucial load-bearing components of wind turbine towers. They are highly susceptible to fatigue cracks over long-term service and require timely detection.
Hongyu Sun   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improved scheduling algorithm for signal processing in asynchronous distributed ultrasonic total-focusing-method system.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Compared to the conventional ultrasonic phased-array system, a large-element phased-array system employing the total focusing method (TFM) can yield improved image resolution and accuracy, providing more flexible scanning methods and image merging ...
Yuzhong Li, Wenming Tang, Guixiong Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Ultrasonic Inspection of a 9% Ni Steel Joint Welded with Ni-based Superalloy 625: Simulation and Experimentation

open access: yesMetals, 2018
The ultrasonic inspection of thick-walled welded joint with austenitic weld metal has proven to be a challenge due to its anisotropic microstructure that can promote ultrasonic waves attenuation.
João da Cruz Payão Filho   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Developments in Energy Storage and Conversion Applications of Multifunctional Vanadium Carbides

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review systematically explains the synthesis, properties, and energy storage and conversion applications of vanadium carbides. We introduce the structural and the synthetic strategies and reviewed recent developments in the material synthesis processes. The emerging applications of vanadium carbides in energy storage and conversion are highlighted.
Swathy B. Saseendran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Online evolution of a phased array for ultrasonic imaging by a novel adaptive data acquisition method

open access: yesScientific Reports
Ultrasonic imaging, using ultrasonic phased arrays, has an enormous impact in science, medicine and society and is a widely used modality in many application fields.
Peter Lukacs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Highly Sensitive Phased Array Probes based on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

open access: yese-Journal of Nondestructive Testing
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs) offer a wide freedom of design for ultrasonic phased arrays. They are characterized, in comparison to piezoelectric transducers, by a higher sensitivity in receiving and a wider bandwidth based on ...
Uwe Voelz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sparse-TFM Imaging of Lamb Waves for the Near-Distance Defects in Plate-Like Structures

open access: yesMetals, 2019
The ultrasonic phased array total focusing method (TFM) has the advantages of high imaging resolution and high sensitivity to small defects. However, it has a long imaging time and cannot realize near-distance defect imaging, which limits its application
Haiyan Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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