Geometric approach to detecting and locating cracks in thin plates by Lamb wave reflection: case of moving transducer

Jose Rodrigo Mares; Roberto A. Osegueda; Nagaswaroopa Kaukuri; Vladik Kreinovich

doi:10.1117/12.539594

21 July 2004 Geometric approach to detecting and locating cracks in thin plates by Lamb wave reflection: case of moving transducer

Jose Rodrigo Mares, Roberto A. Osegueda, Nagaswaroopa Kaukuri, Vladik Kreinovich

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Proceedings Volume 5394, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems III; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.539594
Event: NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper portrays work for the development of a Lamb wave scanning method for the detection of defects in thin plates. The approach requires the generation of an ultrasonic A_o and S_o-Mode Lamb Wave using an incident transmitter excited with a tone burst centered at a near non-dispersive frequency. With a fixed relative separation both transmitter and receiving transducer, remotely scan a specific line section of the plate. The arrival time information coming from incident and reflected waves contain information associated with the location of reflection surfaces or potential flaws. The Hilbert-Huang transform is applied to the intrinsic mode functions which permit the computation of the signal energy as a function of time, proportional to the square of the amplitude of the analytical signal. The arrival times and amplitudes of the notch-reflected energy are used to calculate by means of two geometric methods, the coordinates of the source of the reflections. The resulting coordinates outline the extent and relative direction of notches in two different scenarios. One is having notches in a 0 to 22.5 degree orientation in respect to the far edge of the plate and two with notches of various sizes at a single rivet hole. Results of experiments conducted on 1.6mm-thick Aluminum square plates, with an arrangement of notches as described compare favorably with the actual notches.

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Jose Rodrigo Mares, Roberto A. Osegueda, Nagaswaroopa Kaukuri, and Vladik Kreinovich "Geometric approach to detecting and locating cracks in thin plates by Lamb wave reflection: case of moving transducer", Proc. SPIE 5394, Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems III, (21 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.539594

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