Reflection and diffraction corrections for nonlinear materials characterization by quasi-static pulse measurement

Peter B. Nagy, Jianmin Qu, Laurence J. Jacobs

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Abstract

A harmonic acoustic tone burst propagating through an elastic solid with quadratic nonlinearity produces not only a parallel burst of second harmonic but also an often neglected quasi-static pulse associated with the acoustic radiation-induced eigenstrain. Although initial analytical and experimental studies by Yost and Cantrell suggested that the pulse might have a right-angled triangular shape with the peak displacement at the leading edge being proportional to the length of the tone burst, more recent theoretical, analytical, numerical, and experimental studies proved that the pulse has a flat-top shape and the peak displacement is proportional to the propagation length. In this paper, analytical and numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate two types of finite-size effects. First, the finite axial dimension of the specimen cannot be simply accounted for by a linear reflection coefficient that neglects the nonlinear interaction between the combined incident and reflected fields. Second, the quasistatic pulse generated by a transducer of finite aperture suffers more severe divergence than both the fundamental and second harmonic pulses generated by the same transducer. These finite-size effects can make the top of the quasi-static pulse sloped rather than flat and therefore must be taken into consideration in the interpretation of experimental data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen Noise and Micromagnetic Testing
Pages615-622
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2013, Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen and Micro-Magnetics, ICBM 2013 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 21 Jul 201326 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1581 33
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2013, Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen and Micro-Magnetics, ICBM 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period21/07/1326/07/13

Keywords

  • Diffraction Correction
  • Harmonics Generation
  • Nonlinearity

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