MEMS acoustic emission transducers

Scanning electron micrograph of MEMS acoustic emission transducer (old design).

Testing acoustic emission transducers in the field.



package

 An AE transducer and amplifier package.

Journal articles

  1. D. Ozevin, D .W. Greve, I. J. Oppenheim, and S.P. Pessiki, "Resonant capacitive MEMS acoustic emission transducers," Smart Mater. Struct. 15 (2006) 1–9.
  2. Greve, D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., Wright, A. P., and Wu, W., “Recent Advances in the Mechanics of MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensors,” AEWG Conference on Acoustic Emission, Lake Tahoe, October 2007.

Conference papers

  1. Ozevin, D., Pessiki, S.P., Jain, A., Greve, D.W., and Oppenheim, I. J., "Development of a MEMS Device for Acoustic Emission Testing," SPIE Smart Structures Conference SN09: Smart and NDE for Civil Infrastructure, San Diego, March 2003.
  2. Ozevin, D., Greve. D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., and Pessiki, S. P., "Steel Plate Coupled Behavior of MEMS Transducer Developed for Acoustic Emission Testing," 26th European Conference on Acoustic Emission Testing, Berlin, September 2004.
  3. Ozevin, D., Greve, D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., and Pessiki, S. P., "Resonant Type MEMS Transducers Excited by Two Acoustic Emission Simulation Techniques," SPIE Smart Structures Conference SN09, San Diego, March 2004.
  4. Ozevin, D., Greve. D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., and Pessiki, S. P., "The Characteristics of a New Transducer Design for Acoustic Emission Testing," 6th International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October 2004.
  5. Ozevin, D., Greve, D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., and Pessiki, S. P., "Design, Characterization and Experimental Use of the Second Generation MEMS Acoustic Emission Device," SPIE Smart Structures Conference SN09, San Diego, March 2005.
  6. D. Ozevin, S.P. Pessiki, D.W. Greve, and I.J. Oppenheim, "Adapting a cMUT transducer to detect acoustic emissions," IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Meeting, (Rotterdam, September, 2005).
  7. D. Ozevin, S.P. Pessiki, D.W. Greve, and I.J. Oppenheim, "A MEMS transducer for detection of acoustic emission events, IEEE Sensors Conference, (Los Angeles, October, 2005).
  8. Oppenheim, I. J., Greve, D. W., Hay, D.R., Hay, Y. R., Ozevin, D., Pessiki, S. P., and Tyson, N. L.,  “Structural Tests Using a MEMS Acoustic Emission Transducer,” SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Joint Conference, Paper 6174-02, San Diego, February 2006.
  9. Hay, T.R., Hay, J. R., Hay, R., Oppenheim, I. J., Greve, D. W., “Transforming Bridge Monitoring form Time-Based to Predictive Maintenance Using Acoustic Emission MEMS Sensors and Artificial Intelligence,” 7th World Congress on Railway Research, Montreal, July 2006.
  10. Greve, D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., and Wu, W., “Modes and Damping in Cmut Transducers for Acoustic Emission,” IEEE Ultrasonics Conference, Vancouver, B.C., October 2006.
  11. Greve, D. W., Oppenheim, I. J., Wu, W., and Wright, A. P., “Development of a MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensor System,” SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Joint Conference, San Diego, March 2007.
  12. Wu, W., Greve, D. W., and Oppenheim, I. J., “Characterization and Noise Analysis of Capacitive MEMS Acoustic Emission Transducers,” IEEE Sensors Conference, Atlanta, October 2007.
  13. Wright, A.P., Wu, W. Oppenheim, I.J., and Greve, D.W., "Damping, Noise, and in-plane Response of MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensors," to be published in the Journal of Acoustic Emission.
  14. Greve, D.W. , Oppenheim, I.J., Wright, A.P., and Wu, W., "Design and Testing of a MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensor System," SPIE Smart Structures/ NDE Joint Conference, San Diego, March 2008.