Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy: The essential toolbox

Balakirev, Fedor Fedorovich; Ennaceur, Susan M.; Migliori, Robert John; Maiorov, Boris; Migliori, Albert

doi:10.1063/1.5123165

Title: Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy: The essential toolbox

Abstract

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) is an ultrasound-based minimal-effort high-accuracy elastic modulus measurement technique. RUS as described here uses the mechanical resonances (normal modes of vibration or just modes) of rectangular parallelepiped or cylindrical specimens with a dimension of from a fraction of a millimeter to as large as will fit into the apparatus. Provided here is all that is needed so that the reader can construct and use a state-of-the-art RUS system. Included are links to open-source circuit diagrams, links to download Los Alamos National Laboratory open-source data acquisition software, links to request free analysis software, procedures for acquiring measurements, considerations on building transducers, 3-D printed stage designs, and a full mathematical explanation of how the analysis software extracts elastic moduli from resonances.

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Alamo Creek Engineering, Santa Fe, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 2019-12-17

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); State of Florida

OSTI Identifier:: 1604002

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-28447
Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748; TRN: US2104694

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; DMR-1644779

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Review of Scientific Instruments

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 90; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy; Elastic Moduli

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                    Balakirev, Fedor Fedorovich, Ennaceur, Susan M., Migliori, Robert John, Maiorov, Boris, and Migliori, Albert. Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy: The essential toolbox.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Balakirev, Fedor Fedorovich, Ennaceur, Susan M., Migliori, Robert John, Maiorov, Boris, & Migliori, Albert. Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy: The essential toolbox.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123165

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                    Balakirev, Fedor Fedorovich, Ennaceur, Susan M., Migliori, Robert John, Maiorov, Boris, and Migliori, Albert. Tue .  
"Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy: The essential toolbox".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123165.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1604002.

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  author       = {Balakirev, Fedor Fedorovich and Ennaceur, Susan M. and Migliori, Robert John and Maiorov, Boris and Migliori, Albert},

  abstractNote = {Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) is an ultrasound-based minimal-effort high-accuracy elastic modulus measurement technique. RUS as described here uses the mechanical resonances (normal modes of vibration or just modes) of rectangular parallelepiped or cylindrical specimens with a dimension of from a fraction of a millimeter to as large as will fit into the apparatus. Provided here is all that is needed so that the reader can construct and use a state-of-the-art RUS system. Included are links to open-source circuit diagrams, links to download Los Alamos National Laboratory open-source data acquisition software, links to request free analysis software, procedures for acquiring measurements, considerations on building transducers, 3-D printed stage designs, and a full mathematical explanation of how the analysis software extracts elastic moduli from resonances.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.5123165},

  journal      = {Review of Scientific Instruments},

  number       = 12,

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  place        = {United States},

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