Papers by Author: Zhi Hong Huang

Abstract: Laser ultrasonics opened possibilities to measure thermal and mechanical property of skin which occupies an essential position and is beneficial in industrial and medical applications. This paper focuses on the thermal effect in the thermal section of the laser ultrasonic technique. A transient thermal analysis is developed and promoted to simulate the interaction between the laser pulse and human skin, using a multilayered finite element model (FEM). Chicken leg had been used and irradiated by KrF laser, the thermal reactions were detected and recorded by a thermal camera. By comparison, the thermal result of experiments and simulation matches.

Abstract: Two measuring techniques, the parallel plate method and the cylinder cavity perturbation method, for complex permittivity of microwave dielectric ceramics were introduced. Attention was focused on the theoretical consideration of measurement precision and suitable applications of the techniques.

Abstract: A study is presented into the effect of ultrasonic activation of the platen on the stressstrain relationship in compression tests on aluminium specimens. The aim is to gain some insights into the reported beneficial effects of ultrasonically excited tools in metal forming operations. The paper investigates the compression of aluminium specimens using a variety of different lubricants under conditions of constant crosshead velocity and superimposed longitudinal ultrasonic excitation of the platen. The study shows that the changes in the stress-strain relationship under ultrasonic excitation can be explained in terms of the superimposed oscillatory stress condition and that there is some evidence of small changes in the interfacial friction condition.

Abstract: This paper describes a study of laser generated ultrasonic waves in an 2-layer elastic, isotropic biomaterial model, in order to establish a modelling technique to simulate the thermoelastic response of high-power short pulse laser beams in human skin. The theory proposed in this paper takes into consideration the fundamental understanding of the laser/material interface. A finite element model using the commercial finite element code ANSYS is used to study the effects of laser pulse duration and energy flux contribution to the surface waves. The simulation comprises a set of boundary conditions that approximate a heat flux point source located on top of the surface of the material. Because of the time scale of interest, the elastic effects do not feed back into the thermal problems, so that a sequential coupled-field analysis was performed where the thermal and elastodynamic fields are uncoupled and treated separately. The initial finite element analysis involves a transient thermal analysis using a heat flux with Gaussian spatial variation to simulate the laser pulse heating. The results from the thermal analysis were read and applied to the structural analysis where the out-of-plane displacements histories are analyzed in the skin model with varying thicknesses