Journal
NDT & E INTERNATIONAL
Volume 85, Issue -, Pages 63-71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2016.10.006
Keywords
Micro-crack; Nonlinear ultrasonic; Lamb wave mixing; Sidebands
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11572010, 11272017, 11132002]
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In engineering practice, failures due to fatigue cracks in metallic structures have always been difficult to predict. In our study, nonlinear Lamb wave-mixing was applied in the detection of micro-cracks in plates. The analysis of the nonlinear interaction of these waves with cracks of various lengths and widths was performed using finite element simulations. The simulation results showed that the sideband at the sum frequency provide a sensitive means for micro-crack detection. Moreover, the sideband amplitudes show a monotonic increase with micro crack length, but a decrease with micro-crack width. Experiments using Lamb wave-mixing were conducted on plates with fatigue cracks. The experimental results show that a proposed acoustic nonlinearity parameter related to the sideband at the sum frequency is sensitive to micro-cracks in plate, and is well correlated with the damage degree.
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