An electronic device includes one or more emitters, one or more receivers, and a glass or other breakable external component, such as the cover glass of a display. The emitters emit one or more waves that travel via the glass. The receivers are configured to receive the waves from the glass. Damage to the glass, cracks for example, interrupts and/or interferes with travel of the waves via the glass. The electronic device determines the presence and/or absence of damage to the glass based on whether or not the receivers receive the waves. The location of damage to the glass may also be determined.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for tagging and acoustically characterizing containers.

A method for non-destructive testing of a quality of an ultrasonic weld from a welding process includes detecting of a time-dependent measurement value over a period of time, where the measurement value is characteristic of a mechanical or electrical vibration behavior of a welding process to be tested. The method includes evaluating a measurement-value course of the detected time-dependent measurement value by using a Fourier analysis. The method further includes comparing a result of the evaluation to a reference value in order to test the quality of the weld. A measuring device and an ultrasonic welding system are also included.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for tagging and acoustically characterizing containers.

An integrated system for determining a hemostasis and oxygen transport parameter of a blood sample, such as blood, is disclosed. The system includes a measurement system, such as an ultrasonic sensor, configured to determine data characterizing the blood sample. For example, the data could be displacement of the blood sample in response to ultrasonic pulses. An integrated aspect of the system may be a common sensor, sample portion or data for fast and efficient determination of both parameters. The parameters can also be used to correct or improve measured parameters. For example, physiological adjustments may be applied to the hemostatic parameters using a HCT measurement. Also, physical adjustments may be applied, such as through calibration using a speed or attenuation of the sound pulse through or by the blood sample. These parameters may be displayed on a GUI to guide treatment.

A method, an equipment, and a computer readable medium for evaluating structural strength of fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete are provided. The method includes: obtaining a sound velocity of a fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete test block; deriving a structural compressive strength of the fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete test block according to the sound velocity and a relation between fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete structural compressive strength and fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete sound velocity; determining strengths of various parts of the fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete test block based on measured parameters and recorded design parameters of the test fiber and nanosized materials reinforced concrete, and evaluating deviations of the strengths of the respective parts from the structural compressive strength. The partial design strengths and the deviations from the structural compressive strength may be evaluated and corrective measures may be given.

Provided are a crack detection system and a crack detection method that distinguish between a case where a crack is generated in a structure and other cases not to bring about erroneous detection. In a sensor terminal that detects, from a crack generated in a transducer provided on a structure, a crack in the structure, the transducer having a three-layered structure of conductor-insulator-conductor, the crack detection system including: an impedance measurement unit that measures impedance between the two conductors of the transducer; and a crack detection processing unit that calculates, from a frequency characteristic of the impedance, periodicity data regarding periodicity of a frequency at which impedance becomes a peak, and detects a presence of a crack in the structure in a case of periodicity data different from initially-measured periodicity data being included.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for tagging and acoustically characterizing containers.

Methods are provided for estimating a quality of cement in the annuli of a multi-string wellbore. Wideband acoustic energy signals are generated and detected in the wellbore and are processed to obtain indications of wideband casing-formation phase slowness dispersions in the wellbore. The indications are compared to reference wideband model casing-formation phase slowness dispersions in order to estimate status of cement or lack of cement in the annuli at that location based on the results of the comparison.

The present disclosure discloses a shear-type vibration-ultrasonic composite sensor and a measuring device. In the shear-type vibration-ultrasonic composite sensor, a metal matching layer includes an insulating layer arranged on a lower surface and a supporting pillar arranged on an upper surface, the metal matching layer is in contact with a to-be-detected object via the insulating layer, a first negative electrode face of a first normal piezoelectric element is attached to one side of the metal matching layer, a first positive electrode face of the first normal piezoelectric element is attached to a second positive electrode face of a second normal piezoelectric element, a second negative electrode face is attached to a first surface of a backing block, and a second surface of the backing block is provided with a metal housing.