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Acoustic emission — a bibliography with abstracts
Acoustic emission - a bibliography
with abstracts
F. F. Drouillard IFVPlenum (1979) xix+ 787 pp, $95
With the increasing pace of development of acoustic emission and its applications, it is becoming more difficult to keep aware of current developments; so this bibliography by Tom Drouillard is a timely addition to the IFI Data Base Library. The bibliography aims at listing all the known literature on acoustic emission that has ever been published up to the end of the first quarter of 1977. Factually the bibliography contains some 1996 references, culled from some 300 journals and representing the output of some 1600 authors. As an introduction Drouillard presents the history of acoustic emission, taking a possible start of the method as 6500 BC, when potters might have interpreted the sounds generated by cooling pots as indicative of too rapid cooling causing cracking and damage. Between these primitive days and the early mid-20th century various observations were made of noises associated with materials deformation. The modern technique using electronic devices to detect, process, and analyse the activity began in the late 40’s, and in 1950 Joseph Kaiser, the father of the current technology, published his thesis. Since then the technique has mushroomed, being used for quality control, process monitoring, and structural testing as well as the more conventional materials studies. The’major part of the bibliography (732 pages) is concerned with listing the references and their abstracts. These are arranged alphabetically by first author. The remaining 54 pages are devoted to a list of the source journals, an author index and a subject index. One of the problems associated with searching for acoustic emission references is the broad band of disciplines that it covers: acoustics, civil engineering, chemistry, computing, electronics, fracture mechanics, materials science, mechanical engineering, process control, and physics, are just some examples. Hence the search for references has to be exceptionally wide-ranging; this is confirmed by the 300 journals in which papers have been found. This degree of coverage is one that the individual worker could not achieve without substantial secretarial help and back-up. Perhaps the main value to the user of such a bibliography is the ease of searching the index to identify relevant references. As a worker in the field of acoustic emission, Drouillard has appreciated this and his index is both comprehensive and apt, demonstrating his awareness of the important features of the technology. The index comprises some 900 main topics, the major ones being sub-divided into a further 20 to 30 sub-areas. In addition there is a good degree of cross-referencing. It is Drouillard’s intention to update this bibliography
ULTRASONICS.
SEPTEMBER
1979
from time to time and in his preface he asks for copies of publications beyond the March 1977 deadline, and information on any omissions. I think that this book provides a valuable resource for the acoustic emission community and 1 would endorse this call for assistance from Tom Drouillard and encourage him to keep up the good work. At first sight the bibliography may seem somewhat expensive; but considering the time and effort that would be involved in re-creating it, I think that purchase would prove highly cost efficient. It is a definitive work that should be available from technical libraries and certainly would be of substantial value to all serious workers using the technique. M. Arrington
Symbols and abbreviations for electrical tronic engineering (third edition) Institute
of
Electrical
Engineers
(1979)
and elec-
16pp,
f0.75
This booklet contains the basic and derived SI units, together with the symbols and units for mechanics, heat, illumination, electro-technics and mathematics. These have been revised from the previous edition in 1971 in line with the many changes to British and International Standards since then. A new section has been added giving useful graphical symbols for connection, network elements, power plant, electronic devices and logic symbols. The booklet concludes with pages on physical constants, conversion factors and the Greek alphabet. This is a fairly comprehensive and carefully prepared publication and should be a handy reference for those working in the electronic or electrical fields.
Books listed below are those recently received by the editorial office or those mentioned in advance information from the publishers. Their inclusion here does not prevent them from being reviewed in a later issue.
Biological ultrasound
effects sources
and
D.G. Hazard, M.L. Litz Castle House Publications
Medical
imaging
characterizations
of
(1979) vi + 215 pp, f17.00
techniques
- A comparison
Edited b y K. Preston Jr, K.J. W., Taylor, S.A. Johnson, W. R. Avers Plenum Press (1979) xxiii + 372 pp, $37.50
235
with abstracts
F. F. Drouillard IFVPlenum (1979) xix+ 787 pp, $95
With the increasing pace of development of acoustic emission and its applications, it is becoming more difficult to keep aware of current developments; so this bibliography by Tom Drouillard is a timely addition to the IFI Data Base Library. The bibliography aims at listing all the known literature on acoustic emission that has ever been published up to the end of the first quarter of 1977. Factually the bibliography contains some 1996 references, culled from some 300 journals and representing the output of some 1600 authors. As an introduction Drouillard presents the history of acoustic emission, taking a possible start of the method as 6500 BC, when potters might have interpreted the sounds generated by cooling pots as indicative of too rapid cooling causing cracking and damage. Between these primitive days and the early mid-20th century various observations were made of noises associated with materials deformation. The modern technique using electronic devices to detect, process, and analyse the activity began in the late 40’s, and in 1950 Joseph Kaiser, the father of the current technology, published his thesis. Since then the technique has mushroomed, being used for quality control, process monitoring, and structural testing as well as the more conventional materials studies. The’major part of the bibliography (732 pages) is concerned with listing the references and their abstracts. These are arranged alphabetically by first author. The remaining 54 pages are devoted to a list of the source journals, an author index and a subject index. One of the problems associated with searching for acoustic emission references is the broad band of disciplines that it covers: acoustics, civil engineering, chemistry, computing, electronics, fracture mechanics, materials science, mechanical engineering, process control, and physics, are just some examples. Hence the search for references has to be exceptionally wide-ranging; this is confirmed by the 300 journals in which papers have been found. This degree of coverage is one that the individual worker could not achieve without substantial secretarial help and back-up. Perhaps the main value to the user of such a bibliography is the ease of searching the index to identify relevant references. As a worker in the field of acoustic emission, Drouillard has appreciated this and his index is both comprehensive and apt, demonstrating his awareness of the important features of the technology. The index comprises some 900 main topics, the major ones being sub-divided into a further 20 to 30 sub-areas. In addition there is a good degree of cross-referencing. It is Drouillard’s intention to update this bibliography
ULTRASONICS.
SEPTEMBER
1979
from time to time and in his preface he asks for copies of publications beyond the March 1977 deadline, and information on any omissions. I think that this book provides a valuable resource for the acoustic emission community and 1 would endorse this call for assistance from Tom Drouillard and encourage him to keep up the good work. At first sight the bibliography may seem somewhat expensive; but considering the time and effort that would be involved in re-creating it, I think that purchase would prove highly cost efficient. It is a definitive work that should be available from technical libraries and certainly would be of substantial value to all serious workers using the technique. M. Arrington
Symbols and abbreviations for electrical tronic engineering (third edition) Institute
of
Electrical
Engineers
(1979)
and elec-
16pp,
f0.75
This booklet contains the basic and derived SI units, together with the symbols and units for mechanics, heat, illumination, electro-technics and mathematics. These have been revised from the previous edition in 1971 in line with the many changes to British and International Standards since then. A new section has been added giving useful graphical symbols for connection, network elements, power plant, electronic devices and logic symbols. The booklet concludes with pages on physical constants, conversion factors and the Greek alphabet. This is a fairly comprehensive and carefully prepared publication and should be a handy reference for those working in the electronic or electrical fields.
Books listed below are those recently received by the editorial office or those mentioned in advance information from the publishers. Their inclusion here does not prevent them from being reviewed in a later issue.
Biological ultrasound
effects sources
and
D.G. Hazard, M.L. Litz Castle House Publications
Medical
imaging
characterizations
of
(1979) vi + 215 pp, f17.00
techniques
- A comparison
Edited b y K. Preston Jr, K.J. W., Taylor, S.A. Johnson, W. R. Avers Plenum Press (1979) xxiii + 372 pp, $37.50
235