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Invited Active Keynote/Plenary Lectures at International Meetings

[NFD-pres-plen-09] Nico F. Declercq, “On the Importance of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Diffraction Effects on Periodic Structures Ranging from Nano-hetero-structures Obtained by Epitaxial Growth to Large Building Sites”, keynote lecture presented at Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU – XVII, 2008), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, 4-6 December 2008, India.

[NFD-pres-plen-08] Nico F. Declercq, “Rayleigh’s approximation of diffraction of sound on periodically corrugated surfaces: applications in ultrasonics and architectural acoustics” INVITED presentation at ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-plen-07] Nico F. Declercq, “Diffraction of waves on periodical structures: new experiments and new results concerning acoustic, ultrasonic and acousto-optical diffraction phenomena”, invited presentation at XI International Conference For Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and Its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia 25-30 May 2008

[NFD-pres-plen-06] L. Satyanarayan, J. Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq, Y. Berthelot, “High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging of Novel Polymer Foams for Acoustic Transducer Application”, invited presentation at XI International Conference For Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and Its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia 25-30 May 2008

[NFD-pres-plen-05] Nico F. Declercq, Cindy S. A. Dekeyser, “The acoustics of the Hellenistic Theatre of Epidaurus: the important role of the seat rows”, Invited Keynote Lecture at International Symposium on Room Acoustics ISRA 2007 SEVILLA, Sevilla, Spain, 10-12 Sept 2007.

[NFD-pres-plen-04] Nico F. Declercq, Bart Sarens, Oswald Leroy, “Efficient enhancement of ultrasonic surface wave stimulation on the inaccessible side of a thick isotropic corrugated plate”, Plenary session, IX International Conference for Young Researchers: Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, Non-Destructive Testing, Security and Medicine”, St Petersburg State University of Instrumentation, St Petersburg, Russia, Oct 9 2006.

[NFD-pres-plen-03] Nico F. Declercq, "Van piezokristallen tot het mysterie van de tsjilpende Maya-piramide", invited talk, 6th Firw PhD symposium, Ghent University, 30 Nov 2005

[NFD-pres-plen-02] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "Estudio teóretico de los efetos acústicos especiales causados por la escalera del castillo pirámide en las ruinas Mayas de Chichen-Itzá en Mexico - A theoretical study of special acoustic effects caused by the staircase of  the El Castillo pyramid at the Maya ruins of Chichen-Itza in Mexico", paper SA1, plenary session A, 12th Mexican International Congress on Acoustics - 12 Congreso Internacional Mexicano de Acustica, Santa Cruz, Tlaxcala, Mexico, 26-28 October 2005

[NFD-pres-plen-01] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Inhomogeneous waves in isotropic and anisotropic media" , plenary session, invited oral presentation at VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , 12-15/09 2004

 

Invited Active Communications at International Meetings

[NFD-pres-inv-04] Nico F. Declercq, Cindy S. A. Dekeyser,The acoustics of the Hellenistic Theatre of Epidaurus: the important role of the seat rows”, Invited presentation at the ICA International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2-7 Sept 2007.

[NFD-pres-inv-03] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "Special acoustic effects caused by the staircase of the El Castillo pyramid at the Maya ruins of Chichen-Itza in Mexico", invited talk at the IX-th Western Pacific Conference on Acoustics WESPAC-IX, June 26-28 2006, Seoul, Korea

[NFD-pres-inv-02] N. F. Declercq, "Het ontrafelde mysterie van de Maya piramide in Chichen-Itza in Mexico", invited talk at the annual meeting of the Dutch Acoustical Society (Nederlands Akoestisch genootschap), 23 Nov 2005, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

[NFD-pres-inv-01] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The diffraction of ultrasound on corrugated surfaces and its possible application for surface waves stimulation" , oral (invited) presentation at 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , 6-10/09 2004.

 

(other) Contributed Active Communications at International Meetings

 

[NFD-pres-87] E. Lamkanfi, N. F. Declercq, W. Van Paepegem, J. Degrieck, “Use of the Finite Element Method in the Investigation of Diffraction Effects at the Extremity of Solid Plates for Rayleigh and Scholte-Stoneley Waves”,  oral presentation at Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU – XVII, 2008), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, 4-6 December 2008, India.

[NFD-pres-86] E. Lamkanfi, N. F. Declercq, W. Van Paepegem, J. Degrieck, “Finite Element Study of Near Edge Lamb Wave Excitation and Mode Conversion in Plates”,  oral presentation at Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU – XVII, 2008), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, 4-6 December 2008, India.

[NFD-pres-85] L. Satyanarayan, J. Vander Weide, N. F. Declercq, Y. Berthelot, "Investigation Of A Novel Polymer Foam Material For Air Coupled Ultrasonic Transducer Applications", 5èmes journées du GDR à Anglet: ETUDE DE LA PROPAGATION ULTRASONORE EN VUE DU CONTRÔLE NON-DESTRUCTIF,2 au 6 juin 2008, Anglet, France

[NFD-pres-84] Ebrahim Lamkanfi, Nico F. Declercq, Wim Van Paepegem, “Finite element simulation of the linear and nonlinear interaction of progressive acoustic waves with a standing acoustic wave field”, Oral Presentation 3aPAa8, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-83] Ebrahim Lamkanfi, Nico F. Declercq, Wim Van Paepegem, Joris Degrieck, “Conversion of a Scholte - Stoneley wave at the extremity of a fluid loaded plate: comparison between finite element method, radiation mode theory and experiments”, oral presentation 5aPAc7, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-82] Sarah W. Herbison, Ebrahim Lamkanfi,  Nico F. Declercq , “An experimental method of corrugated surface reconstruction investigated in combination with finite-element simulation”, oral presentation 3aPAe4, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-81] Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical and experimental ultrasonic investigation of a thin plate with regions of different periodic double-corrugations”, oral presentation 2aPAb16, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-80] Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Diffraction phenomena associated with a composite plate containing an interior periodically corrugated interface”, oral presentation 2aPAb18, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-79] Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical study of the diffraction fields generated by a fluid-loaded plate with two-surface corrugation”, poster presentation 2pPAc2, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-78] Kyle Barbour, John M. Vander Weide, Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, L. Satyanaryan, “Ultrasonic polar c-scan system for range of material sizes and its capabilities for non-destructive testing”, poster presentation 4pPAf2, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-77] John M. Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical investigations into the use of linear and nonlinear inhomogeneous waves for non-destructive testing”, poster presentation 4pPAg1, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-76] John M. Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq ,. “Polar scans as a nonlinear acoustics tool”, poster presentation 4pPAg3, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-75] Jason Bach, Nico F. Declercq, David Ku, “Experimental investigation of the scattering of sound by solid spheres in a liquid”, poster presentation 5aBBd4, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-74] Jason Bach, David Ku, Nico F. Declercq, “The scattering of sound by a moving sphere in a stratified Liquid”, poster presentation 2pBBf5, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-73] Nico F. Declercq, Katrien Dewijngaert, Katelijn Vanderhaeghe, Patricia Verleysen , „On the acoustics of a specifically designed library discussion room with corrugated ceiling”, oral presentation 3aAAa5, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-72] Nico F. Declercq , “Determination of symmetry relations between higher order material constants for the study of nonlinear acoustic properties of piezoelectric crystals of any symmetry class”. Oral presentation 3aPAa14, at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-71] Nico F. Declercq, Katelijn Vanderhaeghe, Katrien Dewijngaert, Patricia Verleysen , “On the use of a corrugated ceiling for noise reduction in rooms”, poster presentation 4pAAd4., at “155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America”, joint with “5th Forum Acusticum of the European Acoustics Association”, “9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique of the French Acoustical Society”, integrating the “7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control (euronoise)”, “the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ecua)” and the “60th Anniversary of the French Acoustical Society”, 30 June--4 July 2008, Paris, France

[NFD-pres-70] E. Lamkanfi, N. F Declercq, W. Van Paepegem and J. Degrieck, “Numerical evidence of the tunneling of Rayleigh waves beneath a reflective sound barrier by use of the finite element method”, oral presentation at XI International Conference For Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and Its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia 25-30 May 2008

[NFD-pres-69] Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq , Mack A. Breazeale, “Measurement of the diffraction field of a periodically corrugated interface and study of ultrasonic backward beam displacement” oral presentation at ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-68] L. Satyanarayan, Nico F. Declercq,  “Combined Polar / C-scan ultrasonic investigation of damaged fiber reinforced composites” oral presentation at ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-67] John Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq and Mack A. Breazeale, “Solid side generation of backward beam displacement on periodically corugated surfaces” oral presentation at  ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-66] Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Comparative study of ultrasonic diffraction on periodically corrugated surfaces: single and dual material plates” oral presentation at ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-65] E. Lamkanfi, N. F Declercq, W. Van Paepegem and J. Degrieck, “Finite element study on the traveling of Leaky Rayleigh waves around the extremity of a thick fluid-loaded solid plate” oral presentation at ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, 12-15 May 2008, Poland

[NFD-pres-64] J.M. Vander Weide, N.F Declercq.  Development of a simple 2-D model for crack behavior.  Poster at  Ecole Thématique: Acoustique et Ondes Non linéaires et Applications. Ile d'Oléron, France, June 10-15, 2007

[NFD-pres-63] Nico F. Declercq and Cindy S. A. Dekeyser, “The acoustics of the Hellenistic Theatre of Epidaurus: The Important Role of the Seat Rows”, Oral Presentation at the Acoustics Week in Canada /Comptes Rendus de la semaine Canadienne d’Acoustique, annual congress of the Canadian Acoustics Association (CAA), Montreal, QC, 9-12 October 2007, Canada

[NFD-pres-62] Ebrahim Lamkanfi , Nico F. Declercq , Wim Van Paepegem , Joris Degrieck ”Leaky Rayleigh waves propagating around the corner of a thick solid plate: Finite element analysis”, Oral Presentation 4pPA8 at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4--8 June 2007, USA

[NFD-pres-61] Nico F. Declercq , Bart Sarens ,”Scholte-Stoneley wave generation by means of diffraction on a corrugated surface: Influence of corrugation shape”, Oral Presentation 4pPA6 at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4--8 June 2007, USA

[NFD-pres-60] Jorge Antonio Cruz Calleja , Nico F. Declercq, ”An acoustic raindrop effect at Chichen Itza in Mexico”, Oral Presentation 3pAA5 at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4--8 June 2007, USA

[NFD-pres-59] Nico F. Declercq , Cindy S. A. Dekeyser, “On the acoustics of Hellenistic amphitheaters”, Oral Presentation 3pAA3 at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4--8 June 2007, USA

[NFD-pres-58] Nico F. Declercq, “Reflective barrier yields conclusive evidence of Rayleigh waves being the cause of ultrasonic beam displacement upon incidence on a solid immersed in water”, Poster presentation R21-1718-p126 at The International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU 2007), Vienna University of Technology, April 9-12, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

[NFD-pres-57] Nico F. Declercq, Oswald Leroy, “Study of propagation of Fourier decomposed bounded inhomogeneous waves in comparison with the mathematical concept of infinite inhomogeneous waves”, Poster presentation R21-1722-p128 at The International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU 2007), Vienna University of Technology, April 9-12, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

[NFD-pres-56] Nico F. Declercq, “The effect of the incident bounded beam shape on the Schoch effect”, Oral presentation R17-1733-p109 at The International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU 2007), Vienna University of Technology, April 9-12, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

[NFD-pres-55] Nico F. Declercq, “Fourier analysis of backscattering effect”, Poster presentation R07-1729-p77 at The International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU 2007), Vienna University of Technology, April 9-12, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

 [NFD-pres-54] N. F. Declercq, "Acousto-Optic Schlieren photography to study the nature of ultrasonic bounded beam effects”, Journées Ultrasons-Laser, Université du Maine, Amphithéâtre de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Mans, Le Mans, France, 7-8 December 2006.

 [NFD-pres-53] N. Declercq, O. Leroy and J. Degrieck, "Visualization of sound by means of Schlieren imaging in ultrasound research", oral presentation at 2nd Workshop "Optical Measurement techniques for structures and Systems - OPTIMESS", 27 October 2005, Het Pand, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

[NFD-pres-52] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The interaction of Ultrasound with Mud in Between Hard Solid and Ideal Liquid", Poster Presentation P3G-7 at 2005 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Conference Centre De Doelen, September 19-21, 2005, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

[NFD-pres-51] Nico F. Declercq, Oswald Leroy, "Probing of ultrasonic pulses by focused light", Oral Presentation WeBpm1-02, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-50] Voichita Bucur, Nico F. Declercq, "The anisotropy of biological composites studied with ultrasonic technique", Poster Presentation WePam4-04, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-49] Nico F. Declercq, Filip van den Abeele, "Characterization of a thin layer of liquid in between two isotropic plates by means of reflected and transmitted sonic amplitude and phase", Poster Presentation WePpm4-01, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-48] Nico F. Declercq, Natalya Polikarpova, Vitaly Voloshinov, Oswald Leroy, Joris Degrieck, "Enhanced anisotropy in Paratellurite for inhomogeneous waves and its possible importance in the future development of acousto-optic devices", Poster Presentation WePam4-06, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-47] A. A. Teklu, Mack A. Breazeale, M. McPherson, Roger Hasse, Nico F. Declercq, "On the frequency dependence of the threshold amplitude for the ultrasonic parametric oscillator", Poster Presentation TuPpm4-01, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-46] Nico F. Declercq, Filip van den Abeele, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the capability of Leaky Lamb waves to discriminate between real and fictitious liquids", Oral Presentation WeCam2-04, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-45] Nico F. Declercq, "Fast pumping null strip during the reflection of pulsed Gaussian beams incident at Rayleigh angle", Poster Presentation TuPam1-16, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-44] Nico F. Declercq, Oswald Leroy, Joris Degrieck, "The use of perpendicularly incident bounded beams to uncover the in-plane symmetry of fiber reinforced composites", Poster Presentation WePam4-7, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-43] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Fringed sound fields and their interaction with liquid-solid interfaces", Poster Presentation WePam3-20, at the World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China

[NFD-pres-42] Nico F. Declercq, "Ultrasonics research at the Department of Mechanical Construction and Production of Ghent University", ABAV algemene vergadering vrije medelingen - assemblée générale communications libres, June 08, 2005, het Pand, Ghent, Belgium

[NFD-pres-41] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonic Polar Scans : importance and numerical simulation on generally anisotropic media", oral presentation ACOMEN-2005-010 at the Third International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, 30 May - 2 June 2005, Ghent, Belgium

[NFD-pres-40] Van den Abeele F., Declercq N. F., Degrieck J., Leroy O., "The Thomson-Haskell method to simulate bounded beam interactions on layered media", paper ACOMEN-2005-011 presented at the Third International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, 30 May - 2 June 2005, Ghent, Belgium

[NFD-pres-39] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The application of Schlieren photography in the study of scattered and diffracted ultrasound", Journées Ultrasons-laser, 16 March 2005, Leuven, Belgium

[NFD-pres-38] Nico F. Declercq, "Theoretical and experimental ultrasonics : bulk acoustic microscopy", poster presentation at the 5th UGent PhD symposium, 1 December 2004, Aula UGent, Ghent, Belgium

[NFD-pres-37] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Some properties of waves having complex frequency", poster presentation at VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , 12-15/09 2004

[NFD-pres-36] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The possible connection between the non-trivial law of Snell and backscattering on smooth surfaces " , oral presentation at VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , 12-15/09 2004

[NFD-pres-35] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The existence of a band-gap for Rayleigh waves on coated solids  , oral presentation at VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , 12-15/09 2004

[NFD-pres-34] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Gennady Shkerdin, Oswald Leroy, Joris Degrieck, "The ultrasonic radiation mode theory " oral presentation at 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , 6-10/09 2004.

[NFD-pres-33] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Schlieren photography as a great tool to study wave diffraction at the end of a thin plate " oral presentation at 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , 6-10/09 2004.

[NFD-pres-32] Nico F. Declercq , A. Teklu, M. A. Breazeale, Roger D. Hasse, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Fiber direction determination in composites by means of Schlieren photography " oral presentation at 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , 6-10/09 2004.

[NFD-pres-31] Nico F. Declercq, A. Teklu, M. A. Breazeale, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, Joris Degrieck, "The diffraction of leaky Rayleigh waves at the extremity of a fluid loaded plate", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-30] Nico F. Declercq, Filip Van den Abeele, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The dependence of Lamb wave stimulation parameters on the impedance difference between upper and lower liquid", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-29] Nico F. Declercq, A. Teklu, M. A. Breazeale, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The Schoch effect as a means to detect the principal axes of a piezoelectric crystal", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-28] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonic Inhomogeneous Waves: Three Decades of Fascination", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-27] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Surface and plate mode stimulation in piezoelectric materials in the framework of inhomogeneous wave theory", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-26] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Diffraction of plane waves having complex frequency and the excitation of transient leaky Rayleigh waves", oral presentation at 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Acoustical Society of America (147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America), Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, New York, 24-28 May 2004, USA.

[NFD-pres-25] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "On the existence of a Brewster angle for solid side incidence on periodically rough surfaces", oral presentation Fr3.C2.1 at the ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto International Conference Hall, 4-9 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

[NFD-pres-24] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The reflection of ultrasound from stressed piezoelectric crystals", oral presentation Fr2.C2.2 at the ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto International Conference Hall, 4-9 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

[NFD-pres-23] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the use of the localized inhomogeneity approach to describe bounded beams", poster presentation Tu.P1.22 at the ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto International Conference Hall, 4-9 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

[NFD-pres-22] Nico F. Declercq, Filip Van den Abeele, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the use of bounded beam effects to characterize fluids in containers", oral presentation Tu4.1.3 at the ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto International Conference Hall, 4-9 April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

[NFD-pres-21] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "The extended model to simulate the Quetzal echo at the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza in Mexico", oral presentation at CFA/DAGA'04, 7ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Salon Européen de l’Acoustique - 30. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, Europäische Akustik-Ausstellung, Palais des Congrès et de la Musique, Strasbourg, France 22-25 March 2004.

[NFD-pres-20] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonics, a Fascinating Field of Physics and its Applications", Poster presentation 079 at the 4th UGent FTW PhD symposium, December 3rd, Ghent, Belgium, 2003

[NFD-pres-19] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Profiled plane waves as the framework for the interaction of 3D bounded beams with anisotropic materials", Orals Presentation TO-PM08.05 at the 5th World Congress on Ultrasonics WCU 2003, September 7-10, 2003, Paris , France

[NFD-pres-18] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The characterization of applied and residual stress in isotropic plates by means of multidirectional inspection", Oral Presentation N841 at InterNoise2003, August 25-28, 2003, International Convention Center Jeju, Seogwipo, Korea.

[NFD-pres-17] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "On the possible application of doubly corrugated plates in advanced SAW devices", Oral Presentation N840 at InterNoise2003, August 25-28, 2003, International Convention Center Jeju, Seogwipo, Korea.

[NFD-pres-16] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the theoretical discovery of a new kind of leaky surface waves", Oral Presentation P409 at the Tenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 7-10 July 2003, Stockholm, Sweden.

[NFD-pres-15] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the influence of fatigue on Ultrasonic Polar Scans of fiber reinforced composites", Oral Presentation 1.22B at Ultrasonics International 2003, 30 June- 3 July 2003, Granada, Spain.

[NFD-pres-14] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The representation of 3D gaussian beams by means of inhomogeneous waves", poster presentation P22 at Ultrasonics International 2003, 30 June- 3 July 2003, Granada, Spain

[NFD-pres-13] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "Some interesting features of the interaction of a bounded ultrasonic beam with a doubly corrugated interface between a solid and a liquid", Oral Presentation at 'Acoustics 2003', University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain, 16-18 June 2003.

[NFD-pres-12] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Numerical Simulations of Ultrasonic Polar Scans", Oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing & Technology Transfer and Business Partnership Event, May 26-28, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003.

[NFD-pres-11] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the ability of bounded inhomogeneous waves to experimentally verify the behavior of infinite inhomogeneous plane waves", Oral Presentation at the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 28 April - 2 May 2003.

[NFD-pres-10] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "A full simulation of the Quetzal echo at the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza in Mexico", Oral Presentation at 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 28 April - 2 May 2003.

[NFD-pres-09] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Two Improved Methods to Determine the Coefficients in the Inhomogeneous Wave Decomposition of Bounded Beams", oral presentation at the 8th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (Wespac8), paper WE41, 7-9 April, Melbourne, Australia, 2003.

[NFD-pres-08] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Numerical Simulations of Ultrasonic Polar Scans on Single Layered Fiber Reinforced Composites", oral presentation at DAGA'03, 18-20 March 2003, Aachen, Germany.

[NFD-pres-07] Nico Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Nondestructive Materials Characterization by means of Ultrasound", Poster presentation at the 3rd FTW PHD SYMPOSIUM, Ghent University, Belgium, 2002.

[NFD-pres-06] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "A theoretical elucidation for the experimentally observed backward displacement of waves reflected from an interface having superimposed periodicity", Oral presentation (5aPA6) at the First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics (144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Congress of Acoustics, 9th Mexican Congress on Acoustics), 2-6 Dec. 2002, Cancun, Q. R. Mexico.

[NFD-pres-05] Declercq Nico F., Degrieck Joris, Leroy Oswald, "Hypercomplex Waves", oral presentation PHA-Gen-006 at Forum Acusticum (3rd EAA European Congres on Acoustics, XXXIII Spanish Congres, Tecniacustica 2002, 3rd Iberian Congres on Acoustics, European and Japanese Symposium - EAA - SEA - ASJ, Expoacustica 2002), Sevilla Spain, 16-20 September 2002 .

[NFD-pres-04] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "The diffraction of inhomogeneous acoustic waves by a doubly corrugated solid/liquid interface", oral presentation 2c4-3 at 6th French Conference on Acoustics CFA Lille 2002, Lille 8-11 April 2002, France.

[NFD-pres-03] Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy," Characterization of layered Orthotropic Materials Using Ultrasonic Polar Scans", poster presentation at The 2nd FTW PHD SYMPOSIUM, December 12, 2001, Ghent University, Belgium.

[NFD-pres-02] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "The Direct Superposition Method to predict Wood Anomalies in Acoustic Spectra obtained from Diffraction on Periodically Corrugated Surfaces", oral presentation at 17th International Congress on Acoustics, September 2-7 2001, Rome, Italy.

[NFD-pres-01] Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "The use of polarized bounded beams to determine the groove direction of a surface corrugation", poster presentation P2/1.21 at Ultrasonics International 2001, 2-5 July 2001, Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.

Invited Lectures at other institutes on the occasion scientific visits

[NFD-pres@inst-18] Nico F. Declercq, “On the Importance of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Diffraction Effects on Periodic Structures Ranging from Nano-hetero-structures Obtained by Epitaxial Growth to Large Building Sites”, invited lecture at University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, 3 dec 2008

[NFD-pres@inst-17] Nico F. Declercq, “On the Importance of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Diffraction Effects on Periodic Structures Ranging from Nano-hetero-structures Obtained by Epitaxial Growth to Large Building Sites”, invited lecture at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, India, 8 dec 2008

[NFD-pres@inst-16] Nico F. Declercq, “On the Importance of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Diffraction Effects on Periodic Structures Ranging from Nano-hetero-structures Obtained by Epitaxial Growth to Large Building Sites”, invited lecture at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation, Chennai, India, 12 dec 2008

[NFD-pres@inst-15] Nico F. Declercq, "Diffraction of Waves on Periodical Structures: Acoustic, Ultrasonic and Acousto-Optical Diffraction Phenomena", The University of Texas at Austin, Acoustics Program, Mechanical Engineering Department, Dec 3, 2007, (Room 4.120 of the Engineering Teaching Center II (ETC) Building)

[NFD-pres@inst-14] Nico F. Declercq, "Diffraction of Waves on Periodical Structures: Acoustic, Ultrasonic and Acousto-Optical Diffraction Phenomena", The Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Aerospace Engineering,(Weber Conference Room), Nov 30, 2007

[NFD-pres@inst-13] Nico F. Declercq, "Diffraction of waves on periodical structures: acoustic, ultrasonic and acousto-optical diffraction phenomena", Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, (Tue, Nov 27, 2007, Lewis 101)

[NFD-pres@inst-12] Nico F. Declercq, "Diffraction of Audible Acoustic Waves on Periodical Mayan and Greek Structures", Western Kentucky University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, November 26, 2007, TCCW 251

[NFD-pres@inst-11] Nico F. Declercq, “Short overview of Research at Laboratory of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation”, Lecture given at Institute for Biomedical Technology, Ghent University Hospital Site - Blok B, De Pintelaan 185, 27 April 2007, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

[NFD-pres@inst-10] Nico F. Declercq, “Short overview of Research at Laboratory of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation”, Lecture given at Institute for Biomedical Technology, Ghent University Hospital Site - Blok B, De Pintelaan 185, 27 April 2007, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

[NFD-pres@inst-09] Nico F. Declercq, “An overview of past, current and future research at the laboratory for ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation at Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz-France”, Lecture given at the Fraunhofer Institute for NDT, IZFP, 27 Nov 2006,  Saarbrucken, Germany

[NFD-pres@inst-08] Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials”, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Welding Engineering, Ohio State University , Jan 6 2006, Columbus, Ohio, USA

[NFD-pres@inst-07] Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials”, The Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University, Jan 9 2006, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

[NFD-pres@inst-06] Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials”, George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Jan 18 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

[NFD-pres@inst-05] Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials”, Department of Physics, College of Charleston, Jan 20 2006, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

 [NFD-pres@inst-04] Nico F. Declercq, “The interaction of complex harmonic elastic waves with periodically corrugated surfaces and with anisotropic viscoelastic or piezoelectric layered media”, Lecture given at the Acoustics and Thermal Physics Section of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Wednesday 6 April 2005, Belgium

[NFD-pres@inst-03] Nico F. Declercq, "Inhomogeneous waves and Radiation Modes in Ultrasonics", Lecture given at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, on Monday 12 April 2004, Yokohama, Japan

[NFD-pres@inst-02] Nico F. Declercq, "A short description of inhomogeneous waves and their ability to understand the interaction of ultrasound with corrugated surfaces", lecture given on May 5th 2003 at the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA), the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), 1 Coliseum Drive, University, MS 38677-1848, USA

[NFD-pres@inst-01] Nico F. Declercq, "A short survey on Ultrasonics Research at the Ghent University in Belgium", lecture given at the University of Moratuwa, Dept. Of Materials Engineering, July 31 2003, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

 

Lectures/Seminars at Georgia Tech

[NFD-pres@GT-02] Nico F Declercq, “Acoustic and ultrasonic diffraction effects on periodic structures ranging from nano-hetero-structures obtained by epitaxial growth to large building sites, covering linear and nonlinear acoustics” GT-Lorraine Research Seminar, Thursday, January 22nd 2008, GT-Lorraine, Metz, France.

[NFD-pres@GT-01/ NFD-pres@inst-06] Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonics and Acousto-Optics for the Nondestructive Testing of Complex Materials”, George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Jan 18 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

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