Generation and detection of lamb waves to detect plasticity-induced changes in the microstructure

C. Pruell, J. Y. Kim, L. J. Jacobs, J. Qu

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Abstract

In this work ultrasonic Lamb wave are used to detect material nonlinearity. When certain conditions hold in a propagating Lamb wave, cumulative second harmonics are generated proportional to the material nonlinearity. It has been theoretically shown that the nonlinearity of a material changes with the change of the microstructure. This behavior will be experimentally verified with nonlinear Lamb wave measurements in aluminum sheets. The sheet specimens are stressed with different loads, so different levels of plastic deformation occur. The change in the material nonlinearity for each specimen is then determined with nonlinear Lamb wave measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReview of Progress in QuantitativeNondestructive Evaluation
Pages1275-1281
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event34th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - Golden, CO, United States
Duration: 22 Jul 200727 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume975
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference34th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGolden, CO
Period22/07/0727/07/07

Keywords

  • Lamb waves
  • Nonlinear ultrasonics
  • Plastic deformation
  • Spectrogram

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