CIVE 754Wave Material Interaction and Applications

This course is designed to help students understand the fundamental principles of wave-based technologies and the used of waves for material characterization. This course will present basic concepts of wave phenomena (reflection, refraction, diffraction, resonance, and Doppler effect), signals and signal processing, time domain analysis, frequency domain analysis, and noise, and introduces procedures for velocity and attenuation measurements in the laboratory and in the field. Basic concepts of wave propagation are used to develop procedures for nondestructive testing and to provide insight into such important problems as process monitoring and material characterization.