| Wednesday 16 January | |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Registration and Lunch |
| 13:25 | Welcome Address |
| 13:30 14:00 | (INVITED 1) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Design and experimental study of cantilever ultrasonic detection transducers X Chen (University of Nottingham, UK) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Acoustic radiation force, intensity and power calculations in the field of a focused source P Gélat (National Physical Laboratory, UK) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Nonlinear constants evaluation in a piezoelectric rod from analysis of second harmonic generation D Parenthoine (LUSSI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Modelling of the interaction between creeping wave and a backwall breaking rectangular flaw G Huet (CEA, LIST, centre de Saclay, France) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Defect detection in plate structures using coupled Rayleigh-like waves P Fromme (University College London, UK) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | FE and experimental investigations of ultrasonic guided waves diffracted by adhesive lap joints H Lourme (Laboratoire de Mécanique Physique, Université Bordeaux, France) |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Deconvolution approach for sparse sensor arrays in structural health monitoring T Cicero (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Numerical study of non axisymmetrical waves propagating in a cylindrical bar and genarated by a off-axis source S Yaacoubi (CNRS, Bordeaux, France) |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Influence of mode purity and excitation frequency on baseline subtraction methods applied to a simple SHM system subjected to temperature fluctuations T G Clarke (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 16:45 -17:00 | Guiding Layer Construction for Love Wave Sensors P Roach (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Acoustic waves generated by a laser line pulse in a partly transparent isotropic cylinder D Ségur (Université Bordeaux, France) |
| Thursday 17 January | |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | (INVITED 2) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Feasibility of Time-of-Flight Straight-Ray Guided Wave Tomography P Belanger (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Ultrasonic phased array reconstruction methods for the localization and the characterization of defects in inspection of complex geometry configuration A Fidahoussen (CEA LIST, centre de Saclay, France) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Fermat space mapping for the improved inspection of austenitic steel welds G D Connolly (Imperial College London,UK) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | The sensitivity of guided waves to the properties of an adhesive layer between a metallic plate and a viscoelastic patch. B Le Crom (LMP Université Bordeaux,1 France) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Defect detection in multi-layered structures using guided ultrasonic waves E Kostson (University College London, UK) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | (INVITED 3) Acoustic Wave Sensors Glen McHale (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Propagation of torsional waves in a waveguide of arbitrary cross-section in a fluid Z Fan (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Modelling losses in the overlapping grouted plates V Zernov (South Bank University, UK) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Some improvements in viscoelastic absorbing regions used for FE models W Ke (LMP, Université Bordeaux 1 France) |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | (INVITED 4) Using structure noise for material characterization based on knowledge of ultrasonic wave propagation in heterogeneous media Joseph Moysan (Université de la Méditerranée) |
| 14:00 -14:15 | Influence of the non-uniform concentration and size-distributions of cracks on ultrasonic response of multi-cracked solids M Caleap (LMP, Université Bordeaux 1, France) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Effective propagation in a quasi periodic structure A Maurel (ESPCI, France) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Use of the Scattering Coefficient Matrix to Characterise a Defect J Zhang (University of Bristol, UK) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Diffraction from wedges, with applications to backscatter coefficients of tilted surface-breaking cracks A Gautesen (Iowa State University) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Prediction of ultrasonic noise and attenuation for the simulation of non destructive testing V Dorval (CEA LIST, France) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Effective parameters of multiple scattering media A Maurel (Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, France) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Influence of multiple scattering and of absorption on the frequency dependence of phase velocity in trabecular bone G Haiat (LRO,CNRS, France) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | (INVITED 5) Numerical modelling of bubble growth under acoustic excitation Paul White (University of Southampton, UK) |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Studies of the threshold pressure for inertial acoustic cavitation within a cylindrical sonochemical reactor operating at 25 kHz B Zeqiri (National Physical Laboratory, UK) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Optical measurement and numerical simulations of the self-modulated low frequency displacement: interpretation in terms of Rayleigh radiation pressure M Rénier (ESPCI/Université Paris 7/CNRS, France) |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Advanced Photoacoustic Imaging In Biological Tissue T Li (The University of Manchester, UK) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Experimental study of the ultrasonic velocity dispersion in bovine cortical bone G Haiat (LRO CNRS, France) |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at Imperial College Wye, Kent - Coaches will depart at 18:45 outside the Holiday Inn Hotel |
| Friday 18 January 2008 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | (INVITED 6) Functional Characterisation of piezoelectric materials and applications to ultrasonic transducers Guy Feuillard (Ecole nationale d'ingénieurs du val de Loire, LUSSI, Blois, France) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Deflection measurement of carbon nanotubes and nanofibres due to airborne ultrasonic fields utilising Laser Doppler Vibrometry T Koukoulas (National Physical Laboratory, UK) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Full field optical imaging approach for nonlinear ultrasonic detection of closed non-bounded defects B Sarens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Characterising ionic liquids using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance N Doy (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | A time of flight analysis for the assessment of sperm quality using a quartz crystal microbalance S Atherton (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Dependence of QUS parameters to bone strength estimated by a cellular model G Haiat (LRO, CNRS, Paris, France) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Automatic Identification, Classification and Temporal Sequence Modelling of Salient Sound Events Using Mel Cepstral Coefficients and Principal Components Analysis G J Hunter (Kingston University, UK) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Electrical effect on the response of thin film AlN ultrasonic transducer in the Medium frequency to High frequency range frequencies ranges J Elgoyhen (University of the West of Scotland, UK) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Optical and electrical Characterisation of an acoustically-excited AlN TFBAR based on Membrane structure D Cornez (University of the West of Scotland,UK) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Ultrasonic Extension Sensing of Piezoelectric Actuators for Adaptive Optics E Uzgur (University of the West of Scotland,UK) |
12:30 | Lunch |
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