“…More generally, nonlinear acoustics offers sensitive techniques to detect an isolated and localized microcrack, 20 as well as to evaluate the global quantity of microdamage in materials such as rock, 21,22 nickel, 23 concrete, 24-26 wood, 27 bone, 28,29 etc. These techniques are primarily based on harmonic generation, [30][31][32] frequency mixing, 33-35 acoustoelasticity, 36,37 or shift in the resonance frequency. 26,28,38,39 The latter provides the means to extract nonlinear elastic and dissipative parameters, associated to changes in the resonance frequency and damping with level of excitation, respectively.…”