Conference Presentations with Proceedings

Non-ref'd Papers of Invited or Plenary Lectures

16. *Esam T. Ahmed Mohamed, Pascal Pomarede, and Nico. F. Declercq, “Ultrasonic path length as a decisive uncertainty parameter in the determination of the nonlinearity parameter by finite amplitude methods” Forum Acusticum, Lyon, December 2020. (invited)
15. *Nico Declercq, Lynda Chehami, Pascal Pomarède, Othmane Ez-Zahraouy, Esam Ahmed Mohammed, Fodil Meraghni, “Propagation of ultrasonic waves in complex media: investigation of coda wave technique and traditional Polar and C-scan imaging”, 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, December 4-8, 2017 , New Orleans, Louisiana. | Journal of the Acoustical Society 142(4 pt 2), 2536, 2017. (invited)
14. *Nico Felicien Declercq, Peter McKeon, Slah Yaacoubi, Jingfei Liu, Anurupa Shaw, “Ultrasonic Imaging of Materials Under Unconventional Circumstances”, 41st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Volume 34A, AIP Conference Proceeedings (1650), Dale E Chimenti and Leonard J. Bond eds., 24-42, July 20-25, 2014. (plenary)
13. *Nico Declercq and Jingfei Liu, “A search for the physical origin of Acoustic Wood Anomalies”, paper PJ05_05, 7th Forum Acusticum joined with 61st Open Seminar on Acoustics and the Polish Acoustical Society – Acoustical Society of Japan Special Session Stream, Krakow, September 7-12, 2014. (invited)
12. *Vincent Laude, Rayisa Moiseyenko, Sarah Benchabane, Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, “Phononic Crystal Diffraction Gratings for Surface and Bulk Acoustic Waves”, Phononics 2013 - 2nd International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics, Sharm El Sheick, Egypt, June 2-7, 2013. (plenary)
11. *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”, Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics, NSU – XVII, Varanasi, India, Dec 4-6, 2008 | pp 61-69, P.C. Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Singh, Sri Singh, Nico F. Declercq Eds., “Ultrasonics”, MacMillan Publishers India Ltd, New Delhi, India, ISBN 10: 0230-63689-8, ISBN 13: 978-0230-63689-7, 2008. (keynote)
10. *Nico F. Declercq, “Diffraction of waves on periodical structures: new experiments and new results concerning acoustic, ultrasonic and acousto-optical diffraction phenomena”, XI International Conference for Young Researchers: Wave Electronics and its Applications in the Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia, May 25-30, 2008. (keynote)
9. *L. Satyanarayan, J. Vander Weide, N. F. Declercq, Y. Berthelot , “High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging of Novel Polymer Foams For Acoustic Transducer Applications”, paper in proceedings of XI International Conference for Young Researchers: Wave Electronics and its Applications in the Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia, May 35-40, 2008. (invited)
8. *Nico F. Declercq, Bart Sarens, Oswald Leroy, “Efficiency enhancement of ultrasonic surface wave stimulation on the inaccessible side of a thick isotropic corrugated plate”, 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, October 9, 2006. (plenary)
7. *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", Proceedings of the IX-th Western Pacific Conference on Acoustics WESPAC-IX, Seoul, Korea, June 26-28 2006. (invited)
6. *Joris Degrieck, Wim Van Paepegem, Veerle Cnudde, Ives de Baere, Patrick de Baets, Nico Declercq, Geert Luyckx, Bert Masschaele, Alexander Moentjens, Jan Quintelier, Hugo Sol, Danny Van Hemelrijck, Jo Vlekken, “Monitoring of Fatigue, Impact and Wear in CETEX TPC”, CETEX from scratch to flight, First CETEX conference, edited by Harald E.N. Bersee & Giovanni F Nino. Hosted by Design and Production of Composite Structures, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, June 14, 2006. (plenary)
5. Nico F. Declercq, "The solved mystery of the Maya Pyramid at Chichen-Itza in Mexico - Het ontrafelde mysterie van de Maya piramide in Chichen-Itza in Mexico", Annual meeting of the Dutch Acoustical Society (Nederlands Akoestisch genootschap), Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 23, 2005. (invited)
4. 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, 12th Mexican International Congress on Acoustics - 12 Congreso Internacional Mexicano de Acustica, Santa Cruz, Tlaxcala, Mexico, October 26-28, 2005. (plenary)
3. Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Inhomogeneous waves in isotropic and anisotropic media", VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia, September 12-15, 2004 . (plenary)
2. Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The diffraction of ultrasound on corrugated surfaces and its possible application for surface waves stimulation", 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , September 6-10, 2004 | Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5828, 170, 2005. (invited).
1. Leroy Oswald, Declercq Nico F., Degrieck Joris, "The Acousto-Optic interaction from a fundamental point of view to its applications in non-destructive testing", ULT-Gen-002, Forum Acusticum (3rd EAA European Congress on Acoustics, XXXIII Spanish Congress, Tecniacustica 2002, 3rd Iberian Congress on Acoustics, European and Japanese Symposium - EAA - SEA - ASJ, Expoacustica 2002), Sevilla, Spain, September 16-20, 2002. (invited)

Non-ref'd Abstracts of Invited, Keynote or Plenary

8. *Esam Eldin Tagelsir Ahmed Mohamed, Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonic techniques in the biopolymer research”, Webinar of the 9th World Congress on Biopolymers and Bioplastics, Paris, France, October 15, 2020.
7. *Nico F. Declercq, Esam T. Ahmed Mohamed, Pascal Pomarede, Nada Miqoi, Fodil Meraghni, Jean-Marc Perone, “Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of biological and industrial tissues”, ICUMSAT-2019 International Conference on Ultrasonics and Materials Science for Advanced Technology 2019, Jaunpur, India, November 16-18, 2019. (plenary)
6. *Jingfei Liu, Rayisa P. Moiseyenko, Sarah Benchabane, Nico F. Declercq, Vincent Laude, “Scholte Stoneley waves on corrugated surfaces and on phononic crystal gratings”, XV Congress on Wave electronics and Applications in Information and Communication systems, St Petersburg, Russia, September 5-10, 2012. (invited)
5. *Nico F. Declercq, “On the irrelevance of size : a journey from ultrasonics for nondestructive testing of novel materials to the acoustics of historic buildings”, XV Congress on Wave electronics and Applications in Information and Communication systems, St Petersburg, Russia, Sept 5-10, 2012. (plenary)
4. *Nico F. Declercq, “Ultrasonic NDT of a Corrugated Material: Pandora’s Box and a Journey Through Ultrasonics”, abstract of keynote lecture (invited overview talk) at the 18th World Congress on Nondestructive Testing, Durban, South Africa, April 16-20, 2012. (keynote)
3. *Nico F. Declercq, “Interaction of Ultrasound with (periodic) materials”, International Congress on Acoustics ICA2010, Sydney, Australia, August 2010. (plenary)
2. *Nico F. Declercq, Sarah Herbison, “The plane wave expansion technique to describe diffraction of sound”, International Congress on Acoustics ICA2010, Theoretical and computational acoustics, Sydney, Australia, August 5, 2010. (invited)
1. *Nico F. Declercq, "Theoretical and experimental investigation of the backward beam displacement", 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, April 19-23, 2010 |Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127, 1843, 2010. (invited)

Papers of Regular Lectures in Conf. Proceedings

63. *P. Dubey, N. F. Declercq, "A study on ultrasonic wave propagation and interaction with plate heat exchanger", proceedings of the 16th Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2022), and abstract CFA2022/119, Marseille, 11-15 April, 2022.
62. *D. Silitonga, N. Declercq, P. Pomarede, F. Meraghni, "Crack detection on solar photovoltaic module with ultrasonic guided waves", proceedings of the 16th Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2022), and abstract CFA2022/111, Marseille, 11-15 April, 2022.
61. *Othmane-Latif Ouabi, Ayoub Ridani, Pascal Pomarede, Neil Zeghidour, Nico F. Declercq, Matthieu Geist, Cédric Pradalier, Combined Grid and Feature-based Mapping of Metal Structures with Ultrasonic Guided Waves, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.
60. *Othmane Ouabi, Neil Zeghidour, Matthieu Geist, Nico Declercq, Cedric Pradalier, "Multi-order Ultrasonic Echo-based Pose-graph SLAM for Long-range Inspection Robots", paper submitted to Robotics: Science and Systems 2022, New York City, June 27-July 1, 2022.
59. *Othmane-Latif Ouabi, Pascal Pomarede, Matthieu Geist, Nico F. Declercq, Cedric Pradalier, "A FastSLAM Approach Integrating Beamforming Maps for Ultrasound-based Robotic Inspection of Metal Structures", Oral Presentation with proceedings paper at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, 2021.
58. *O. Ouabi, P. Pomarede, M. Geist, N. Declercq, C. Pradalier, “Monte-Carlo Localization on a Metal Plate Based on Ultrasonic Guided Waves Propagation”, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) (2020), March 22-25, 2021.
57. *Othmane-Latif Ouabi, Pascal Pomarede, Matthieu Geist, Nico Felicien Declercq, Cedric Pradalier, “Robotic Localization on a Metal Plate Based on Ultrasonic Guided Waves”, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Malta, November 2020 | hal-03120508.
56. *C. Pradalier , O. Ouabi, P. Pomarede, Jan Steckel, N. Declercq , “On-plate localization and mapping for an inspection robot using ultrasonic guided waves: a proof of concept”, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), January 24, 2021.
55. *Nada Miqoi, Pascal Pomarede, Fodil Meraghni, Nico Declercq, Gael Lecoz, Laurent Guillaumat, Stephane Delalande, “Caractérisation de l'endommagement post-impact dans un composite PA6.6/6-Sergé2.2 : indentation permanente et micro-tomographie X”, pp.236561, 21ème Journées Nationales sur les Composites, École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) - Bordeaux, Talence, France, July, 2019.
54. *Perone, J-M., Ahmed Mohamed, E. T., Brand, S., Koegel, M., Declercq, N., “Utilization of scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) in quantifying the biomechanical variations in tissues with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FECD)”, ARVO 2019 - Investigative Ophtalmology and Visual Science, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2019 | hal-02445921.
53. *Lynda Chehami, Nico F. Declercq, Paul Lohmuller, Pascal Pomarede, Boris Pitrowski, Fodil Meraghni, Esam Ahmed Mohamed, Othmane Ez-Zahraouy , “Non destructive evaluation of bi-material structures: a case study”, Acoustics 17, 173rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America and 8th Forum Acusticum, Boston, June 25-29, 2017. | Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 30, 045002, 2017.
52. *Pascal Pomarede, Fodil Meraghni, Stéphane Delalande, Nico Declercq, “Détection et suivi de l’endommagement anisotrope par méthode ultrasonore dans un composite à renfort tissé et matrice polyamide PA 66/6”, Journées Nationales sur les Composites 2017, Champs-sur-Marne, France, June, 2017. | ffhal-01623674f.
51. *S. Eckel, F. Meraghni, P. Pomarède, N. F. Declercq “Nondestructive testing of composites using a nonlinear acoustic spectroscopy method”, 17th ECCM 2016, 26-30 June 2016, Munich, Germany
50. *Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, Anurupa Shaw, “The Phenomenon of Secondary Diffraction of Sound on Periodically Corrugated Surface”, Pages 249-252, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, France | Physics Procedia 70, 2015).
49. *Peter Mckeon, Slah Yaacoubi, Nico F Declercq, Salah Ramadan and Weina Ke Yaacoubi, "Ultrasonic Guided Wave Optimization Parameters for Defect Detection in Thick Multilayer Composites", 2013 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Singapore, 2-5 May 2-5, 2013 | doi: 10.3850/978-981-07-5938-4_P0414 in proceedings ISBN: 978-981-07-5938-4
48. *Jingfei Liu and Nico F. Declercq, "Spectral Analysis of the Impact Defects in Composite Plates", 2013 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Singapore, May 2-5, 2013 | doi: 10.3850/978-981-07-5938-4_P0431 in proceedings ISBN: 978-981-07-5938-4
47. *Rayisa P. Moiseyenko, Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq and Vincent Laude, "Plane Wave Diffraction on Blazed Phononic Crystal Gratings", 2013 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Singapore, May 2-5, 2013 (ISBN: 978-981-07-5938-4)
46. *Rayisa P. Moiseyenko, Jingfei Liu, Sarah Benchabane, Nico F. Declercq, Vincent Laude, “Scholte-Stoneley waves on phononic crystal gratings”, paper 5F-5, 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Dresden, Germany, October 7-10, 2012.
45. *R. P. Moiseyenko, S. Benchabane, V. Laude, J. Liu, and N. F. Declercq, “Scholte–Stoneley waves on 2D phononic crystal gratings,”,178–182, Days on Diffraction Saint Petersburg , June 2012.
44. *P. McKeon, S. Yaacoubi, N. F. Declercq, S. Ramadan, W. K. Yaacoubi, “Convergence criteria for FEM propagation of Lamb waves in multi-layer materials”, CNRS GDR 2501, Wave propagation in complex media, Ile d'Oleron, France, May 25, 2012.
43. *R. P. Moiseyenko, J. Liu, S. Benchabane, N. F. Declercq and V. Laude, “Scholte-Stoneley waves on corrugated surfaces and on phononic crystal gratings”, 3671-3675, Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference, Nantes, France, April 23-27, 2012.
42. *J. Liu and N. F. Declercq, "Comparison of different approaches in characterization of impact defects of composite plates", 2659-2663, Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference, Nantes, France, April 23-27, 2012.
41. *P. McKeon, S. Yaacoubi, N. F. Declercq, S. Ramadan,"Issues concerning using mode conversion of guided waves to size defects in plates", 2665-2670, Proceedings of the Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference, Nantes, France, April 23-27, 2012.
40. *Rayisa P. Moiseyenko, Nico F. Declercq, Vincent Laude, “Numerical investigation of diffraction of acoustic waves by phononic crystals”, ICU2011 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Gdansk, Poland, September 5-8, 2011. | AIP Conf. Proc. 1433, 319, 2012.
39. *R. P. Moiseyenko, V. Laude, and N. F. Declercq, “Analysis of deaf bands in phononic crystals,” IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, paper 5G-1, Orlando, USA, Oct 2011.
38. *Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, “Air-coupled ultrasonic investigation of periodic structure composed of stacked cylindrical rods”, ICU2011 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Gdansk, Poland, September 5-8, 2011. | AIP Conf. Proc. 1433, 323, 2012.
37. *Herbison, Sarah W., Declercq, Nico F.; Moiseyenko, Rayisa, Laude, Vincent , “Diffraction of bulk waves on phononic crystals”, p522, International Congress on Acoustics ICA2010, Sydney, Australia, August 2010.
36. *Cláudia Teresa T. Farias, Ivan C. da Silva, Igor Souza Ribeiro, Nico F. Declercq, João Carlos Machado, João Marcos A. Rebello, “Utilização da fotografia schlieren na visualização do feixe ultrassônico e detecção de danos em compósitos laminados fibra-metal”, 10th “COTEQ - Conferência sobre Tecnologia de Equipamentos”, Salvador, Brazil, May 12-15, 2009.
35. *E. Lamkanfi, N. F. Declercq, W. Van Paepegem, J. Degrieck, “Use of the Finite Elelement Method in the Investigation of Diffraction Effects at the Extremity of Solid Plates for Rayleigh and Scholte-Stoneley Waves”, Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics, NSU – XVII, Varanasi, India, December 4-6, 2008 | pp 104-109, P.C. Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Singh, Sri Singh, Nico F. Declercq Eds., “Ultrasonics”, MacMillan Publishers India Ltd, New Delhi, India, 2008.
34. *E. Lamkanfi, N. F. Declercq, W. Van Paepegem, J. Degrieck, “Finite Element Study of Near Edge Lamb Wave Excitation and Mode Conversion in Plates”, Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics, NSU – XVII, Varanasi, India, December 4-6, 2008 | pp 165-169, P.C. Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Singh, Sri Singh, Nico F. Declercq Eds., “Ultrasonics”, MacMillan Publishers India Ltd, New Delhi, India, 2008.
33. *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: étude de la propagation ultrasonore en vue du contrôle non-destructif, Anglet, France, June 2-6, 2008. | “ultrasonic wave propagation in non homogeneous media”, A. Leger & M. Deschamps Eds, Springer Proceedings in Physics 128, 329-340, 2009.
32. *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”, XI International Conference for Young Researchers: Wave Electronics and its Applications in the Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia, May 25-30, 2008.
31. *Nataliya V. Polikarpova, Vitaly B. Voloshinov and Nico F. Declercq, “Longitudinal to shear transformation of acoustic modes in acousto-optic crystal of tellurium dioxide”, Paper ID 1410, International Congress on Ultrasonics, Vienna, Austria, April 9-12, 2007. (see section III.A International and National awards).
30. *Nico F. Declercq and Cindy S. A. Dekeyser, “The acoustics of the Hellenistic Theatre of Epidaurus: The Important Role of the Seat Rows”, Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada /Comptes Rendus de la semaine Canadienne d’Acoustique, annual congress of the Canadian Acoustics Association (CAA), Montreal, Canada, October 9-12, 2007 | Canadian Acoustics / Acoustique Canadienne 35(3), p120-121, 2007, Canada.
29. Els N. Janssen, Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, "Application of the phased array technique and acousto-optic Bragg imaging for ultrasonic nondestructive testing of materials", 6th FirW PhD symposium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, November 30, 2005.
28. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The interaction of Ultrasound with Mud in Between Hard Solid and Ideal Liquid", P3G-7, 2005 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-21, 2005.
27. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonic Polar Scans : importance and numerical simulation on generally anisotropic media", ACOMEN-2005-010, Third International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, Ghent, Belgium, May 30 - June 2, 2005.
26. Van den Abeele F., Declercq N. F., Degrieck J., Leroy O., "The Thomson-Haskell method to simulate bounded beam interactions on layered media", ACOMEN-2005-011 Third International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, Ghent, Belgium, May 30 - June 2, 2005.
25. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Some properties of waves having complex frequency", p73-74, VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , September 12-15, 2004.
24. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The possible connection between the non-trivial law of Snell and backscattering on smooth surfaces ", p63-65, VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , September 12-15, 2004.
23. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The existence of a band-gap for Rayleigh waves on coated solids”, p66-68, VII International Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, St Petersburg, Russia , September 12-15, 2004.
22. Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Gennady Shkerdin, Oswald Leroy, Joris Degrieck, "The ultrasonic radiation mode theory ", 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , September 6-10, 2004 | Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5828, 181, 2005.
21. Nico F. Declercq, "Theoretical and Experimental Ultrasonics – Bulk Acoustic Microscopy," 5th UGent PhD symposium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, December 1, 2004.
20. Nico F. Declercq, A. Teklu, M. A. Breazeale, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Schlieren photography as a great tool to study wave diffraction at the end of a thin plate ", 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto-Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , September 6-10, 2004 | Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5828, 117 (2005).
19. 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 ", 51st open seminar on Acoustics, Joint with 9th School of Acousto Optics and Applications , Gdansk, Poland , September 6-10, 2004 | Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5828, 123 (2005).
18. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "On the existence of a Brewster angle for solid side incidence on periodically rough surfaces", pp V3623-V3626, ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan , April 4-9, 2004.
17. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The reflection of ultrasound from stressed piezoelectric crystals", pp V3429-3422, ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan , April 4-9, 2004.
16. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the use of the localized inhomogeneity approach to describe bounded beams", pp II1661-II1662, ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan , April 4-9, 2004.
15. Nico F. Declercq, Filip Van den Abeele, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the use of bounded beam effects to characterize fluids in containers", pp II1347-II1350, ICA2004 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan , April 4-9, 2004.
14. 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", Joint congress CFA/DAGA’04 7ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Salon Européen de l’Acoustique - 30. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, Europäische Akustik-Ausstellung, Strasbourg, France, March 22-25, 2004
13. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonics, a Fascinating Field of Physics and its Applications", Paper 079, 4th UGent FTW PhD symposium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, December 3, 2003.
12. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Profiled plane waves as the framework for the interaction of 3D bounded beams with anisotropic materials", 995-998, 5th World Congress on Ultrasonics WCU 2003, Paris, France, September 7-10, 2003.
11. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "The characterization of applied and residual stress in isotropic plates by means of multidirectional inspection", Paper N841, pp 4287-4292, InterNoise2003, International Convention Center Jeju, Seogwipo, Jeju, Korea, August 25-28, 2003.
10. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "On the possible application of doubly corrugated plates in advanced SAW devices", Paper N840, pp 3730-3737, InterNoise2003, International Convention Center Jeju, Seogwipo, Jeju, Korea, August 25-28, 2003.
9. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the theoretical discovery of a new kind of leaky surface waves", P409, Tenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Stockholm, Sweden, July 7-10, 2003.
8. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Numerical Simulations of Ultrasonic Polar Scans on Single Layered Fiber Reinforced Composites", DAGA'03, Aachen, Germany, March 18-20, 2003.
7. Nico Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Nondestructive Materials Characterization by means of Ultrasound", 3rd FTW PhD Symposium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2002.
6. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Rudy Briers, Oswald Leroy, "The Diffraction of Inhomogeneous waves by a doubly corrugated liquid/solid interface", 6th French Congress on Acoustics, Lille France, 2002.
5. 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", 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), Cancun, Mexico, December 2-6, 2002 | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112(5), 2414, 2002. (see III.A International and National awards).
4. Declercq Nico F, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Hypercomplex Waves", PHA-Gen-006, Forum Acusticum (3rd EAA European Congress on Acoustics, XXXIII Spanish Congress, Tecniacustica 2002, 3rd Iberian Congress on Acoustics, European and Japanese Symposium - EAA - SEA - ASJ, Expoacustica 2002), Sevilla, Spain, September 16-20, 2002. | Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 88, S147, 2002
3. Leroy Oswald, Declercq Nico F., Degrieck Joris, "The Acousto-Optic interaction from a fundamental point of view to its applications in non-destructive testing", ULT-Gen-002, Forum Acusticum (3rd EAA European Congress on Acoustics, XXXIII Spanish Congress, Tecniacustica 2002, 3rd Iberian Congress on Acoustics, European and Japanese Symposium - EAA - SEA - ASJ, Expoacustica 2002), Sevilla, Spain, September 16-20, 2002. | Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 88, S107, 2002.
2. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Characterization of layered Orthotropic Materials Using Ultrasonic Polar Scans", 2nd FTW PHD SYMPOSIUM, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2001. (III.B Institute of School Awards)
1. 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", 17th International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, Italy, September 2-7, 2001.

Short Abstr.s of oral presentations in Conf. Proc.

61. *Pooja Dubey, Othmane Ouabi, Dicky Silitonga, Cedric Pradalier, Pascal Pomarède, Nico F. Declercq, "An investigation on the lateral propagation of ultrasound waves in multi-layered structures", paper CFA2022/142, at 16th Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2022), Marseille, 11-15 April, 2022.
60. *Othmane Ouabi, Pascal Pomarède, Nico Declercq, Neil Zeghidour, Matthieu Geist, Cedric Pradalier, "Localisation, Cartographie et Calibration de la Dispersion pour l'Inspection Robotique de Structures en Métal par Ondes Guidées", paper CFA2022/163, 16e Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2022), Marseille, 11-15 April, 2022.
59. *Nico F. Declercq, Jean-Marc Perone, Esam T. Ahmed Mohamed, Sebastian Brand, Michael Kroegel, “Scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) study of the biomechanical variations in normal tissues of corneal Descemet’s membrane and tissues with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FECD) using V(z), abstract 599, 2019 International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2019 ICU Bruges, Bruges,Belgium, September 3-6, 2019
58. *N. Miqoi, P. Pomarède, N.F. Declercq, L. Peltier, F. Meraghni : Ultrasonic and X-Ray tomography inspection of a woven glass reinforced composite damaged by fatigue loading, 176th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada, November 5-9, 2018.
57. *Nico Declercq, Pascal Pomarède, Othmane Ez-Zahraouy, Nada Miqoi, Lynda Chehami, Fodil Meraghni, Laurent Peltier, “Ultrasonic investigation of fatigue, tensile damage and impact damage in woven glass-fiber fabric reinforced composites with comparison to X-ray tomography”, 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 4-8, 2017. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society 142(4 pt 2), 2548, 2017.
56. *Lynda Chehami and Nico Declercq, “Nondestructive evaluation of adhesion in bi-material structures”, abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(5 Pt 2), 3906, 2017.
55. *Alem Teklu, Nico Declercq and Michael McPherson, “Cost-effective potential of acousto-optic Bragg imaging of biological tissue”, 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Jacksonville, Florida, November 6, 2015. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138, 1940, 2015.
54. *Q. Wang and N.F. Declercq, “Characterization of ultrasonic transducers based on spectrum correction algorithm”, abstract p 79, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
53. *P. McKeon, S. Yaacoubi and N.F. Declercq, “Guided Waves Modeling in Composite Structures to Optimize an NDT System”, p 179, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
52. *P. McKeon, S. Yaacoubi and N.F. Declercq, “Simple finite element algorithm to determine propagating modeshapes in a multi-layer waveguide”, p 180, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
51. *J. Streque, J. Liu, C. Bishop, B. Assouar, S. McMurtry, O. Elmazria, A. Ougazzaden and N.F. Declercq, “Development of GaN Based Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor for Gas Sensing”, p 241, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
50. *J. Liu, N.F. Declercq and A. Shaw, “The Phenomenon of Secondary Diffraction of Sound on Periodically Corrugated Surface”, p 262, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
49. *J. Dong, J. Liu, B. Kim, A. Locquet, N.F. Declercq and D. Citrin, “Forced Delamination Characterization of Glass Fiber Composites Using Terahertz and Ultrasonic Imaging”, p 266, 2015 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics , Metz, France, May 10-14, 2015.
48. *Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, “Acoustic wood anomaly phenomenon in transmission and diffraction fields”, 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2-6, 2013, San Francisco, California, 2013. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5, Pt. 2), 4227, 2013.
47. *Anurupa Shaw, Suk Wang Yoon, Nico F. Declercq, “Investigation of sound diffraction in periodic nano-structures using acoustic microscopy”, 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, December 2-6, 2013, San Francisco, California, 2013. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5, Pt. 2), 4226, 2013.
46. *Anurupa Shaw, Nico F. Declercq, “Ice thickness determination with audio sound.”, ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 2-7, 2013, Montreal, Canada. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), Pt 2, 3374, 2013.
45. *Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, “Time-frequency analysis of wood anomalies in acoustics”, ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 2-7, 2013, Montreal, Canada. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), Pt 2, 3437, 2013.
44. *Slah Yaacoubi, Marc Deschamps, Eric Ducasse, Laurent Laguerre, Weina Ke Yaacoubi, Peter McKeon, Salah Ramadan, Nico F. Declercq, “Generalized Debye series expansion to improve the non-destructive testing and health monitoring of cylindrical structures by guided waves”, ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 2-7, 2013, Montreal, Canada. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), Pt 2, 3446, 2013.
43. *Peter McKeon, Slah Yaacoubi, Nico F. Declercq, Salah Ramadan, “Comparison of finite element models simulating the interaction of ultrasonic guided waves with sites of disbonding in composites”, ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 2-7, 2013, Montreal, Canada. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), Pt 2, 3447, 2013. (Best paper award, see section III.A International and National awards).
42. *Jingfei Liu, Nico F. Declercq, “The effects of the transducer beam properties on the ultrasonic geometrical characterization of periodically corrugated surfaces”, ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 2-7, 2013, Montreal, Canada. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(5), Pt 2, 3498, 2013.
41. *Rayisa P. Moiseyenko, Jingfei Liu, Sarah Benchabane, Nico F. Declercq, Vincent Laude, “Scholte–Stoneley waves on 1D and 2D phononic crystal gratings”, p 83, Days on diffraction 2012, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia, May 28 – June 1, 2012.
40. *Jingfei Liu, Nico Declercq, “The appearance and use of Bragg scattering effects when sound is perpendicularly incident on a periodic structure”, 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, October 31 – November 4, 2011, | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 130, 2360, 2011.
39. *Nico F. Declercq, Ebrahim Lamkanfi, “Rough surface reconstruction using far‐field acoustic measurements”, International Congress on Acoustics ICA2010, Sydney, Australia, August 2010.
38. *Nico F. Declercq, Sarah W. Herbison, Mack A. Breazeale, “Theoretical and experimental investigation of the backward beam displacement”, International Congress on Acoustics ICA2010, Sydney, Australia, Aug 2010.
37. *Alem A. Teklu, Michael A. McPherson, Mack A. Breazeale, and Nico F. Declercq, "Frequency dependence of the ultrasonic parametric threshold amplitude for a fluid-filled cavity", 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and NOISE-CON 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, April 19-23, 2010 | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127, 1844, 2010.
36. *Michael S. McPherson, M. A. Breazeale, Nico F. Declercq, and Alem Teklu, "Optical Bragg imaging of acoustic fields after reflection", 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and NOISE-CON 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, April 19-23, 2010 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127, 1845, 2010.
35. *Yves. H. Berthelot, Nico Declercq, Sarah Herbison, and L. Satyanarayan, “Diffraction of Sound and Ultrasound by Periodic Structures: Applications to Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring with Air-coupled Sensors”, strategic workshop on phononic crystals (and alternative technologies), Nice, France, June 24-26, 2009.
34. *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”, ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, Poland, May 12-15, 2008.
33. *L. Satyanarayan, Nico F. Declercq, “Combined Polar / C-scan ultrasonic investigation of damaged fiber reinforced composites”, ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, Poland, May 12-15, 2008.
32. *Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Comparative study of ultrasonic diffraction on periodically corrugated surfaces: single and dual material plates”, ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, Poland, May 12-15, 2008.
31. *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”, ‘Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski’ – 10th school on acousto-optics and applications, Gdansk-Sopot, Poland, May 12-15, 2008.
30. *Nico F. Declercq, Katrien Dewijngaert, Katelijn Vanderhaeghe, Patricia Verleysen , “On the acoustics of a specifically designed library discussion room with corrugated ceiling”, “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3354, 2008.
29. *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, “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3399, 2008.
28. *Nico F. Declercq, Katelijn Vanderhaeghe, Katrien Dewijngaert, Patricia Verleysen , “On the use of a corrugated ceiling for noise reduction in rooms” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3609, 2008.
27. *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” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3397, 2008.
26. *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” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3834, 2008.
25. *Sarah W. Herbison, Ebrahim Lamkanfi, Nico F. Declercq , “An experimental method of corrugated surface reconstruction investigated in combination with finite-element simulation” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3408, 2008.
24. *Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical and experimental ultrasonic investigation of a thin plate with regions of different periodic double-corrugations” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3146, 2008.
23. *Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Diffraction phenomena associated with a composite plate containing an interior periodically corrugated interface” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3147, 2008.
22. *Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical study of the diffraction fields generated by a fluid-loaded plate with two-surface corrugation” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3275, 2008.
21.* Kyle Barbour, John M. Vander Weide, Sarah W. Herbison, Nico F. Declercq. “Ultrasonic polar c-scan system for range of material sizes and its capabilities for non-destructive testing” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3699, 2008.
20. *John M. Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq, “Theoretical investigations into the use of linear and nonlinear inhomogeneous waves for non-destructive testing” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3700, 2008.
19. *John M. Vander Weide, Nico F. Declercq ,. “Polar scans as a nonlinear acoustics tool” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3700, 2008.
18. *Jason Bach, Nico F. Declercq, David Ku, “Experimental investigation of the scattering of sound by solid spheres in a liquid” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3788, 2008.
17. *Jason Bach, David Ku, Nico F. Declercq, “The scattering of sound by a moving sphere in a stratified Liquid” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3225, 2008.
16. *Nataliya Polikarpova, Vitaly Voloshinov, Nico F. Declercq, “Transformation of Acoustic Modes in Case of Arbitrary Reflection in Acousto-Optic Crystals” , “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”, Paris, France, June 30 – July 4, 2008, Paris, France. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 5, Pt. 2, 3144, 2008.
15. *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”, 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 4-8, 2007 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 3182 (2007).
14. *Nico F. Declercq , Bart Sarens ,”Scholte-Stoneley wave generation by means of diffraction on a corrugated surface: Influence of corrugation shape”, 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 4-8, 2007 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 3182 (2007).
13. *Jorge Antonio Cruz Calleja , Nico F. Declercq, ”An acoustic raindrop effect at Chichen Itza in Mexico”, 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 4-8, 2007 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 3129 (2007).
12. *Nico F. Declercq , Cindy S. A. Dekeyser, “On the acoustics of Hellenistic amphitheaters”, 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 4-8, 2007 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 3129 (2007).
11. *Nataliya Polikarpova and Nico Declercq, “Inclined Incidence and Back Reflection of Bulk Acoustic Waves in Crystals”, 36th Winter School on Wave and Quantum Acoustics, Wisła, Poland, Feb 26 – March 3, 2007.
10. 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", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2472, 2004.
9. 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",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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2472 , 2004.
8. Alem A. Teklu, Nico F. Declercq, Mack A. Breazeale, "Measurement of the frequency of the ultrasonic parametric threshold amplitude", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2533 , 2004.
7. 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", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2569 , 2004.
6. Nico F. Declercq, Rudy Briers, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Ultrasonic Inhomogeneous Waves: Three Decades of Fascination", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2624, 2004.
5. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Surface and plate mode stimulation in piezoelectric materials in the framework of inhomogeneous wave theory", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2626 , 2004.
4. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Diffraction of plane waves having complex frequency and the excitation of transient leaky Rayleigh waves", 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, May 24-28, 2004. | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(5), 2626, 2004.
3. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "Numerical Simulations of Ultrasonic Polar Scans", Book of Abstracts, 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing & Technology Transfer and Business Partnership Event, May 26-28, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003.
2. Nico F. Declercq, Joris Degrieck, Oswald Leroy, "On the ability of bounded inhomogeneous waves to experimentally verify the behavior of infinite inhomogeneous plane waves", 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 28 - May 2, 2003 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(4), 2283, 2003.
1. 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", 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 28 - May 2, 2003 | abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113(4), 2189, 2003.