Study on relationship between the Lamb wave velocity and fatigue of plate

Author

Lin Wei ; Li Xu ; Wang Jia qi

Author_Institution

Dept. Appl. Phys., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

260

Lastpage

263

Abstract

In order to study the influences on the phase velocities of different modes of the Lamb wave due to the variations of elastic coefficients caused by the material fatigue, the propagation characteristics of the Lamb wave are studied by simulations and experiments. It is found that the velocity shift of the high-order mode Lamb wave is more sensitive to the variations of elastic coefficients than that of the low-order mode. In a LY-12-CZ aluminum plate, the velocity shift of the A3 mode is about 9 times larger than that of the A0 mode. Then, high sensitivity can be obtained by using the high modes of the Lamb wave in the nondestructive examinations.

Keywords

aluminium alloys; elasticity; fatigue; sensitivity; surface acoustic waves; ultrasonic materials testing; LY-12-CZ aluminum alloy plate; Lamb wave propagation velocity; elastic coefficients; fatigue; high-order mode Lamb wave; phase velocity; sensitivity; ultrasonic nondestructive testing; wave velocity shift; Acoustics; Dispersion; Fatigue; Materials; Metals; Nondestructive testing; Sensitivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications (SPAWDA), 2011 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1075-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPAWDA.2011.6167239

Filename

6167239