Middle ear reconstruction estimated by recurrence plot technique

Middle ear surgery techniques have enabled to improve hearing destroyed by a disease. Despite huge improvement in instrumentation and techniques the results of hearing improvement surgery are still difficult to predict. This paper presents the results of vibrations measurements in a human middle ear obtained at the Medical University of Lublin. Vibrations of the stapes in the case of the intact ossicular chain, after cement incus rebuilding and incus interpositions are compared each other. In this aim a new approach of ossicles vibrations observation is introduced in order to complete information obtained from classical approach which bases on the transfer function. Measurements of ossicular chain vibrations are performed on fresh human temporal bone specimen using the laser doppler vibrometer. Next, after classical research, the extended analysis with the recurrence plots technique is performed.

New speckle pattern interferometry for precise in situ deformation measurements

A new electronic speckle pattern interferometry method is proposed to realize in situ deformation measurements.The feature of the method is the combination of a high-speed camera and multiple laser Doppler vibrometers(LDVs)for synchronous measurements.The high-speed camera is used to record and select effective interferograms,while the LDVs are used to measure the rigid body displacement caused by vibrations.A series of effective interferograms with known shifted phase values are obtained to calculate the deformation phase.The experimental results show that the method performs well in measuring static and dynamic deformations with high accuracy in vibrating environments.

Novel sensing techniques for full-scale testing of civil structures

Performing full-scale structural testing is an important methodology for researchers and engineers in the civil engineering industry.Full scale testing helps the researchers understand civil infrastructures'loading scenarios,behaviors,and health conditions.It helps the engineers verify,polish,and simplify the structural design and analysis theories.To conduct a full-scale structural testing,sensors are used for data acquisitions.To help structural researchers and engineers get familiar with sensing technologies and select the most effective sensors,this study reviewed and categorized new sensing techniques for full-scale structural testing applications.The researchers of this study categorized sensors used for civil-infrastructure testing into traditional contact sensors and remote sensors based upon their application methodologies,and into cabled sensors and wireless sensors based upon their data communication strategies.The detailed descriptions of wireless sensors and remote sensing techniques and their on-site full-scale applications are presented.

Sparse Reconstruction and Damage Imaging Method Based on Uniform Sparse Sampling

The full wavefield detection method based on guided waves can efficiently detect and locate damages relying on the collection of large amounts of wavefield data.The acquisition process by scanning laser Doppler vibrometer(SLDV)is generally time-consuming,which is limited by Nyquist sampling theorem.To reduce the acquisition time,full wavefield data can be reconstructed from a small number of random sampling point signals combining with compressed sensing.However,the random sampling point signals need to be obtained by adding additional components to the SLDV system or offline processing.Because the random sparse sampling is difficult to achieve via the SLDV system,a new uniform sparse sampling strategy is proposed in this paper.By using the uniform sparse sampling coordinates instead of the random spatial sampling point coordinates,sparse sampling can be applied to SLDV without adding additional components or offline processing.The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed strategy can reduce the measurement locations required for accurate signal recovery to less than 90%of the Nyquist sampling grid,and the damage location error is within the minimum half wavelength.Compared with the conventional jittered sampling strategy,the proposed sampling strategy can directly reduce the sampling time of the SLDV system by more than 90%without adding additional components and achieve the same accuracy of guided wavefield reconstruction and damage location as the jittered sampling strategy.The research results can greatly improve the efficiency of damage detection technology based on wavefield analysis.