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Publication List

 
1) refereed journal publications

A. Neild, D.A. Hutchins, T.J. Robertson and D.W. Schindel, "A model for the radiated field of a plane piston after reflection from a curved surface," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, pp. 2793-2801, 2004. (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

T.H. Gan, D.A. Hutchins, D.R. Billson and D.W. Schindel, "High resolution air-coupled ultrasonic imaging of thin materials," IEEE-UFFC, 50, pp.1516-1524, 2003. (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

T.H. Gan, D.A. Hutchins, D.R. Billson and D.W. Schindel, "The use of broadband acoustic transducers and pulse compression techniques for air-coupled ultrasonic imaging," Ultrasonics, 39(3) pp.181-194, April 2001. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

T.J. Robertson, D.A. Hutchins, D.R. Billson, J.H. Rakels and D.W. Schindel, "Surface metrology using reflected ultrasonic signals in air," Ultrasonics, 39 pp.479-486, 2002. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, "Air-coupled ultrasonic measurements of adhesively-bonded multi-layer structures," Ultrasonics, 37(3) pp.185-200, March 1999. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, A.G. Bashford and D.A. Hutchins, "Chromatic aberration of an air-coupled ultrasonic Fresnel zone-plate," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 46(1), pp.242-246, January 1999. (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

W.M.D. Wright, D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, D.P. Jansen and P.W. Carpenter, "Ultrasonic tomographic imaging of temperature- and flow- fields in gases using air-coupled capacitance transducers," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104(6), pp. 3446-3455, Dec.1998. (get copy on-line @ JASA-O)

D.A. Hutchins, D.W. Schindel, A.G. Bashford and W.M.D. Wright, "Advances in ultrasonic electrostatic transduction," Ultrasonics 36(1-5), pps.1-6 (1998). (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic imaging of solid surfaces using a focussed air-coupled capacitance transducer," Ultrasonics 35(8), pp.587-594, March 1998. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

A.G. Bashford, D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Micromachined ultrasonic capacitance transducers for immersion applications," IEEE-UFFC, 45(2), pp.367-375, March 1998.  (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins and S.T. Smith, "A study of materials at high temperature using miniaturized resonant tuning forks and non-contact capacitance transducers," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(3), pp.1296-1309, September 1997. [Note: this article is a "selected research article." Selected research articles are ones chosen occasionally by the Editor-in-Chief, that are judged (a) to have a subject of wide acoustical interest, and (b) to be written for understanding by broad acoustical readership.] (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

D.W. Schindel, A.G. Bashford and D.A. Hutchins, "Focussing of ultrasonic waves in air using a micromachined Fresnel zone-plate," Ultrasonics, 35(4), p.275, 12 pages, 1997. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, "Air-coupled generation and detection of ultrasonics bulk waves in metals using micromachined capacitance transducers," Ultrasonics, 35(2), pp.179-181, March 1997. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, D.S. Forsyth, D.A. Hutchins and A. Fahr, "Air-coupled ultrasonic NDE of bonded aluminum lap-joints," Ultrasonics, 35(1), pp.1-6 February 1997. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

A.G. Bashford, D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins and W.M.D. Wright, "Field characterization of an air-coupled micromachined ultrasonic capacitance transducer," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101(1), pp.315-322, January 1997.  (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

W.M.D. Wright, D.A. Hutchins, D.P. Jansen and D.W. Schindel, "Air-coupled Lamb wave tomography," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 44(1), pp.53-59, January 1997.  (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins and W.A. Grandia, "Capacitive and piezoelectric air-coupled transducers for resonant ultrasonic inspection," Ultrasonics, 34(6), pp.621-627, 1996. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

A.G. Bashford, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Radiated fields of an air-coupled ultrasonic capacitance transducer," Ultrasonics 34(2-5), pp.169-172, 1996. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

S. Dixon, C. Edwards, S.B. Palmer and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasound generation in single crystal silicon using a pulsed Nd:YAG laser," J.Phys.D: Applied Physics, 29, pp.1345-1348, 1996.  (get copy on-line @ IoP )

B. Hosten, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Measurement of elastic constants in composite materials using air-coupled ultrasonic bulk waves," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(4) Pt.1, pp.2116-2123, May 1996.  (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "The Capacitance Transducer as a Standard Ultrasonic Source in Solids," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(3), pp.1650-1659, 1995.  (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Through-thickness characterization of solids by wideband air-coupled ultrasound," Ultrasonics, 33(1), pp.11-17, 1995. (get copy on-line @ ScienceDirect)

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, L. Zou and M. Sayer, "The Design and Characterization of Micromachined Air-Coupled Capacitance Transducers," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 42(1), pp.42-50, 1995.  (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Applications of Micromachined Capacitance Transducers in Air-Coupled Ultrasonics and Non-Destructive Evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 42(1), pp.51-58, 1995.  (get copy on-line @ IEEExplore)

D.A. Hutchins, W.M.D. Wright and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic measurements in polymeric materials using air-coupled capacitance transducers," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96(3), pp.1634-1642, September 1994.  (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

W.M.D. Wright, D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Studies of Laser-Generated Ultrasound using a Micromachined Silicon Electrostatic Transducer in Air," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(5), Pt.1, pp.2567-2575, May 1994.  (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, S.T. Smith and B. Farahbakhsh, "High Temperature Pulsed Photoacoustic Studies of Surface Waves on Solids," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(5), Pt.1, pp.2517-2524, May 1994. (get copy on-line @ JASA-O )

 
2) conference publications / presentations

D.W. Schindel, "Non-contact ultrasonic inspection of food," presented at 2005 International Food Technology (IFT) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, July 2005. (Invited Paper).

T.H. Gan, T.J. Robertson, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic imaging of thin materials using high resolution air-coupled transducers," presented at Acoustical Imaging 2003, Saarbruken, Germany.

A. Neild, D.A. Hutchins, T.J. Robertson and D.W. Schindel, "Theoretical modelling of a plane piston field focussed by reflection," Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Ultrasonics Symposium, Munich, Germany 2002, pp.1163-1166.

D.W. Schindel, "Broadband air-coupled capacitance transducers and their applications," JSME Conference, Meijyo University, Nagoya, Japan, August 4th, 2000.

L. Sun, D.W. Schindel and M. Sayer, "Self-reciprocal calibration of micromachined capacitance transducers in Air," Proceedings of the IEEE 1999 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.??, Lake Tahoe, CA, October 18-20, 1999.

D.W. Schindel, "Broadband micromachined capacitance transducers for ultrasonic applications in fluids," Ultrasonics International ’99 joint with 1999 World Congress on Ultrasonics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 28-July 1, 1999. (Invited Paper).

C.S. McIntyre, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Recent developments in air-coupled ultrasonic capacitive transducers for use with NDE experiments," Proc. 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, USA, June 1998, pp.746-747.

D.A. Hutchins, W.M.D. Wright, D.W. Schindel and P.W. Carpenter, "Ultrasonic Capacitance Transducers for Flow and Temperature Tomography in Air," Proc. 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, USA, June 1998, pp.743-744.

P. Ingleby, T.J. Robertson, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic air-coupled capacitance transducers using thin mica films," Proc. 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, USA, June 1998, pp.745-746.

D.W. Schindel, "Non-contact ultrasonic inspection of aerospace materials using micromachined air-coupled capacitance transducers," Ultrasonics International Conference '97, Delft, The Netherlands, July 4 1997.

W.M.D. Wright, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic tomographic imaging in air," Ultrasonics International Conference '97, Delft, The Netherlands, July 3 1997.

D.A. Hutchins, D.W. Schindel, A.G. Bashford and W.M.D. Wright, "Advances in ultrasonic electrostatic transduction," Ultrasonics International Conference '97, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2 1997 (Invited Talk); published -- Ultrasonics, 1998, v.36, n.1, p.1, 6p.

M. Sayer, L. Sun and D.W. Schindel, "Modelling and experiments of micromachined air-coupled capacitance transducers," 95th Annual Meeting and Convention of the Canadian Ceramic Society, Montreal, February 23-25, 1997.

L. Sun, M. Sayer, D.W. Schindel and L. Zou, "Modelling and experiments of micromachined air-coupled capacitance transducers," Proceedings of the IEEE 1997 Ultrasonics Symposium, pps.979-982, 1997.

A.G. Bashford, D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Micromachined Ultrasonic Capacitance Immersion Transducers," Proceedings of the IEEE 1996 Ultrasonics Symposium, pps. ??-?? November, 1996.

D.A. Hutchins, A.G. Bashford, W.M.D. Wright, D.W. Schindel and A. Kumar, "Air-coupled ultrasonic capacitance transducers for NDT," Proc. 14th World Conference on NDT, New Delhi, India, December, 1996, Oxford and IBH Publishing, New Delhi, pp.2061-2064.

D.A. Hutchins, W.M.D. Wright, L.P. Scudder and D.W. Schindel, "Pulsed photoacoustics using an air-coupled detector," Acustica, 82 Suppl.1, S119, Forum Acousticum - 1st Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Antwerp, Belgium, 1-4 April, 1996.

B. Hosten, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Air-coupled ultrasonic bulk waves to measure elastic constants in composite materials," Rev.Prog.Quant.Nondestr.Eval., vol.15A, pps.1075-1083, July 30 - Aug.4, Seattle, 1996.

D.W. Schindel, "Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Transducers," a prize-winning invited talk given at the Ultrasonics International Conference '95, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1995.

D.A. Hutchins, A.G. Bashford, W.M.D. Wright and D.W. Schindel, "Advances in wide bandwidth air-coupled capacitance transducers," Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.981-984, Seattle, WA, November 7-10, 1995.

W. Lauriks, B. Castagnede, J. Thoen, W. Wright, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Determinations of the Tortuosity of porous materials using new air-coupled ultrasonic transducers," 11th International FASE Symposium, pp.11-14, Valencia, November 1994.

D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Advances in Non-contact and Air-coupled Transducers," Proceedings of the IEEE 1994 Ultrasonics Symposium, October 1994.

D.A. Hutchins, W.M.D. Wright, L.P. Scudder and D.W. Schindel, "Air-coupled ultrasonic NDT," p.15, NDT '94 Conference, York, England, 13-15 September, 1994.

D.A. Hutchins, W.M.D. Wright, L.P. Scudder, J.T. Mottram and D.W. Schindel, "Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Testing of Composites," Proceedings of the Conference on 'Inspection of Structural Composites', Ch.17, pp.99-113 (1994); 9-10 June 1994, University College, London, England.

W.M.D. Wright, D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Ultrasonic evaluation of polymers and composites using air-coupled capacitance transducers," Rev.Prog.Quant.Nondestr.Eval., 14B, pp.1399-1406 (1995); July 31 - Aug.5, Snowmass Village, Colorado, 1994

D.A. Hutchins, A.G. Bashford, W.M.D. Wright and D.W. Schindel, "Characterization of the field of an air-coupled ultrasonic silicon capacitance transducer," Rev.Prog.Quant. Nondestr.Eval., 14, pp.945-950 (1995); July 31 - Aug. 5, Snowmass Village, Colorado, 1994.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, L. Zou and M. Sayer, "Micromachined Capacitance Transducers for Air-Borne Ultrasonics," Ultrasonics International Conference Proceedings '93, pp.675-678, Vienna, Austria, July 6-8, 1993.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins and C. Edwards, "The Capacitance Transducer as a Standard Ultrasonic Source in Solids," Ultrasonics International Conference Proceedings '93, pp.173-176, Vienna, Austria, July 6-8, 1993.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, L. Zou and M. Sayer, "Capacitance Transducers for Generating Ultrasonic Fields in Liquids and Gases," Proceedings of the IEE Conference on 'Acoustic Sensing and Imaging', pp.7-12, conf.publ.#369, London, UK, 29-30 March, 1993.

M. Sayer, D. Barrow, L. Zou, C.V.R. Vasant Kumar, R. Noteboom, D.A. Knapik, D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Piezoelectric and Capacitive Microactuators and Devices," Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, vol.310, p.37-39, 1993.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, L. Zou and M. Sayer, "Capacitance Devices for the Generation of Air-Borne Ultrasonic Fields," Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.843-846, Tucson, Arizona, October 20-23, 1992.

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Capacitive Devices for the Efficient Transduction of Ultrasonic Fields in Air," The 124th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, Oct.31 - Nov.4, 1992.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins and S.T. Smith, "A Study of Materials at High Temperature using Miniaturized Resonant Tuning Forks," The 124th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, Oct.31 -Nov.4, 1992 [J.Acoust.Soc.Am., 92, 2314(A) (1992)].

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "Capacitance Devices for the Controlled Generation of Ultrasonic Fields in Liquids," Proceedings of the IEEE 1991 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.301-304, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, December 1991.

D.A. Hutchins, C. Edwards, D.W. Schindel, M.D.C. Moles and H.D. Mair, "Laser-Based High Temperature Ultrasonic Studies of Hydrided Zirconium Alloys," Proceedings of the IEEE 1991 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.907-910, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, December 1991.

D.W. Schindel, D.A. Hutchins, B. Farahbakhsh and S.T. Smith, "High Temperature Pulsed Photoacoustic Studies of Solids," Proceedings of the IEEE 1990 Ultrasonics Symposium, pp.645-648, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 1990.

D.W. Schindel and D.A. Hutchins, "A Wideband Capacitance Transducer Source," Proceed-ings of the Ultrasonics International Conference '89, pp.589-593, Madrid, Spain, June 1989.

 
3) industrial reports

D.A. Hutchins and D.W. Schindel, "Acoustic Properties of Zr-Nb Pressure Tubes under Stress and Thermal Variations," Ontario Hydro Final Contract Report #0868-9431, 1991.

D.W. Schindel and Ming To, "Random Wave Data Analysis," Esso Resources Canada Limited Internal Report, August 1987.

 
4) other

D.W. Schindel, "Non-Contact Ultrasonic Transducers," an invited talk given at the Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, January 14, 1997.

D.W. Schindel, "The Role of Micromachining in Acoustics," an invited talk given at the Precision Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, October 21, 1994.

D.W. Schindel, "The Measurement of High Temperature using Mechanical Vibrations of Solids," Engineering Physics Undergraduate Thesis, Queen's University, 1988.

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