chapter 1 Mechanics of Elastic Waves and Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation. Tribikram Kundu -- chapter 2 Modeling of Ultrasonic Field by Distributed Point Source Method / chapter 3 Ultrasonic Systems for Industrial Nondestructive Evaluation / chapter 4 Guided Waves for Plate Inspection. Tribikram Kundu -- chapter 5 Cylindrical Waveguides and Their Applications in Ultrasonic Evaluation / chapter 6 Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation / chapter 7 Theory and Applications of Laser-Ultrasonic Techniques / chapter 8 Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers. Bruce Max?eld -- chapter 9 Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation for Structural Health Monitoring: Built-In Diagnostics for Hot-Spot Monitoring in Metallic and Composite Structures / chapter 10 Brillouin Scattering Measurement of SAW Velocities for Determining Near-Surface Elastic Properties / chapter 11 Theory and Applications of Acoustic Microscopy / chapter 12 Ultrasonic Characterization of Biological Cells / chapter 13 Ultrasonic Characterization of Hard Tissues / chapter 14 Clinical Applications of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation