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Subhendu K. Datta
Professor Emeritus Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0427
book Review
Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic NDE for Structure and Material Characterization: Engineering and Biomedical Applications
Author: Tribikram Kundu (editor)
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group ISBN: 978-1439836637
Pages: 890 (with 649 illustrations)
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: June 25. 2012
Price: $139.95
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This book edited by Tribikram Kundu is an expanded and updated version of Ultra- sonic Nondestructive Evaluation: Engineering and Biological Material Characteriza- tion (CRC Press, 2004, available in electronic form also.) This earlier book (henceforth referred to as I) dealt with ultrasonic techniques only and had 14 chapters, each written by well-known researchers in their field of interest. This new book follows the same tradition and has 18 chapters, some of which cover the same materials as in I , namely, mechanics of elastic waves and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (Chapter 1), mod- eling of ultrasonic fields by distributed point source method (Chapter 2), fundamentals and applications of nonlinear ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (Chapter 6), theory and application of laser ultrasonic techniques (Chapter 7), ultrasonic characterization of biological cells (Chapter 12), and ultrasonic characterization of hard tissues (Chapter 13). New topics included in this book are: electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation (Chapter 3), distributed point source method for modeling and imaging in electrostatic and electromagnetic problems (Chapter 4), material characterization by nonlinear ultrasonic technique (Chapter 8), toward structural health monitoring solutions for bolted joints (Chapter 9), clinical applications of ultrasonic nondestructive evalua-
tion (Chapter 14), terahertz radiation for nondestructive evaluation (Chapter 15), and fiber –optic sensors for structural health monitoring. Other topics covered in the book which were also included in I are: guided waves for plate and pipe inspection (Chapter 5), measurements of the elastic properties of solids by Brillouin Spectroscopy (Chapter 10), and theory and applications of scanning acoustic microscopy and scanning near – field acoustic imaging (Chapter 11). The book is a collection of review articles, some of which are comprehensive and include extensive up-to-date references.