The determination of the elastic constants of unidirectional carbon fibre composite via immersion based ultrasound is an established area with much literature. Existing literature reviews in this area discuss the extant literature but do not offer a deep review of the seminal publications during this period, but instead focus on reporting the contributions of the published literature. Thus, a gap in knowledge exists for a comprehensive literature review charting the evolution of how the elastic constants of uni-directional carbon fibre composite are determined via immersion based ultrasonic through transmission. This work addresses this. Building on previous literature, this paper reviews seminal publications in chronological order, with the benefits, drawbacks and contributions to knowledge of each reviewed publication identified within this work. This review is bounded from 1970-2015, (some 45 years of literature), and maps the progression of technological and scientific advancement of the through transmission technique; that is, seminal literature during this period is both identified and reviewed in chronological order thus demonstrating how each paper builds on previous work. This paper also documents two novel information tables, which for the first time allow the significant contributions to knowledge during this period to be quickly identified

通过浸入式超声确定单向碳纤维复合材料的弹性常数是一个已有文献报道的领域。该领域中的现有文献综述讨论了现有文献，但是在此期间未对开创性出版物提供深入的评论，而是集中于报道已发表文献的贡献。因此，对于全面的文献综述存在知识空白，该文献综述了如何通过基于浸没的超声波通过透射来确定单向碳纤维复合材料的弹性常数的演变。这项工作解决了这个问题。本文以以前的文献为基础，按时间顺序回顾了开创性出版物，并指出了本工作中确定的每篇经评审的出版物的优缺点和对知识的贡献。这篇综述的范围是1970-2015年（已有45年的文献记载），它描绘了直通式传输技术的技术进步和科学进展；也就是说，在此期间的开创性文献都按时间顺序进行了识别和审查，从而证明了每篇论文是如何建立在以前的工作基础上的。本文还记录了两个新颖的信息表，这第一次使人们能够快速确定在此期间对知识的重大贡献