Journal
ULTRASONICS
Volume 73, Issue -, Pages 187-195Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2016.09.014
Keywords
Guided waves; Diffraction; Scattering; Far-field; Crack; Piezoceramics
Funding
- Bombardier Aeronautics (BA)
- L-3 MAS
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Mitacs Accelerate program of the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ) DPHM [501]
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Validation of guided-wave based systems for Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) under realistic conditions or environment requires complex setups. For this purpose, numerical or theoretical approaches are useful to save time and cost associated with experiential tests. However, the interaction with realistic geometrical (rivets, thickness changes, stiffeners, extrusions) or damage features (fatigue cracks, fillet cracks, delaminations, disbonds) must be accurately captured in order to be representative. In this paper, an experimental methodology is presented for estimating the far-field scattering of geometrical or damage features. The principle is based on the use of a Hankel transform of the measured 3D velocity field in order to evaluate with precision and repeatability the scattered pattern using a spatially averaged method. Application to scattering of a hole with simulated machined and real fatigue cracks is proposed. It is observed that the simulated machined crack generally used as a reference standard can only model accurately the transmission behaviour while the scattering patterns are only similar when the wavelength is about the size of the crack, limiting the practical use of machined cracks for experimental validation of SHM or NDE systems. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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