Scattering of Ultrasonic Wave by Cracks in a Plate

1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. W. Liu ◽  
S. K. Datta
Keyword(s):  
Guided Waves ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Ball Impact ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Hybrid Numerical Method ◽  
Transient Scattering ◽  
Wave Models ◽  
Scattered Fields ◽  
Boundary Integral Representation

A hybrid numerical method combining finite elements and the boundary integral representation is used to investigate the transient scattering of ultrasonic waves by a crack in a plate. The incident wave models the guided waves generated by a steel ball impact on the plate. Two surface-breaking cracks and one subsurface crack are studied here. The results show that the location and depth of cracks have measurable effects on the surface responses in time and frequency domains. Also, the scattered fields have distinct differences in the three cases.

Cavity-Opening Tensor Method and its Applications to Reflection and Transmission of Ultrasonic Wave by Defects

1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 836-842
Author(s):  
Yonglin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Single Defect ◽  
Interaction Factors ◽  
Cavity Opening ◽  
Conventional Numerical Method ◽  
Scattered Fields

The reflection and transmission of ultrasonic waves by an array of planar defects are investigated using the cavity-opening tensor (COT) method, whereby each defect or flaw can be simulated as a three-dimensional tensor in terms of the displacement distribution over the surface of the defect. The closed-form expressions of reflection and transmission coefficients represented by one set of COTs are derived, and the interaction factors of COTs are computed using the boundary integral equation with the approximate integral only on the single defect surface. Moreover, the analytical expressions of scattered fields at a distance from the defects are given by the representation of COT. As compared with the conventional numerical method, the COT method greatly simplifies the calculations, and also makes it possible to more efficiently characterize defects with more complicated distributions.

scholarly journals Experimentation and Adaptive Modeling for Temperature Effect Quantification in PVP Structural Health Monitoring With PWAS

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuncay Kamas ◽  
Banibrata Poddar ◽  
Bin Lin ◽  
Lingyu Yu ◽  
Victor Giurgiutiu
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Thermal Effects ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Material Parameters ◽  
Structural Health

The thermal effects at elevated temperatures mostly exist for pressure vessel and pipe (PVP) applications. The technologies for diagnosis and prognosis of PVP systems need to take the thermal effect into account and compensate it on sensing and monitoring of PVP structures. One of the extensively employed sensor technologies has been permanently installed piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS) for in-situ continuous structural health monitoring (SHM). Using the transduction of ultrasonic elastic waves into voltage and vice versa, PWAS has been emerged as one of the major SHM sensing technologies. However, the dynamic characteristics of PWAS need to be explored prior its installation for in-situ SHM. Electro-mechanical impedance spectroscopy (EMIS) method has been utilized as a dynamic descriptor of PWAS and as a high frequency local modal sensing technique by applying standing waves to indicate the response of the PWAS resonator by determining the resonance and anti-resonance frequencies. Another SHM technology utilizing PWAS is guided wave propagation (GWP) as a far-field transient sensing technique by transducing the traveling guided ultrasonic waves (GUW) into substrate structure. The paper first presents EMIS method that qualifies and quantifies circular PWAS resonators under traction-free boundary condition and in an ambience with increasing temperature. The piezoelectric material degradation was investigated by introducing the temperature effects on the material parameters that are obtained from experimental observations as well as from related work in literature. GWP technique is also presented by inclusion of the thermal effects on the substrate material. The MATLAB GUI under the name of Wave Form Revealer (WFR) was adapted for prediction of the thermal effects on coupled guided waves and dynamic structural change in the substrate material at elevated temperature. The WFR software allows for the analysis of multimodal guided waves in the structure with affected material parameters in an ambience with elevated temperature.

Alternative Boundary-Integral Representations of Ship Waves

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Noblesse ◽  
Chi Yang ◽  
Dane Hendrix ◽  
Rainald Lo¨hner
Keyword(s):  
Integral Representation ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Ship Hull ◽  
Integral Representations ◽  
Singular Boundary ◽  
Ship Waves ◽  
Classical Boundary ◽  
The Green Function ◽  
Boundary Integral Representation

The fundamental problem of determining the free-surface potential flow that corresponds to a given flow at a ship hull surface is reconsidered. Stokes’ theorem is used to transform the dipole distribution over the ship hull surface in the classical boundary-integral representation of the velocity potential. This Stokes’ transformation yields a weakly-singular boundary-integral representation that defines the potential in terms of the Green function G and related functions that are no more singular than G. Accordingly, the velocity representation only involves functions that are no more singular than ∇G.

COMPUTATIONAL HOMOGENIZATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH PORES: A THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAIN BOUNDARY FORMULATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250012 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. TRENTACOSTE ◽  
I. BENEDETTI ◽  
M. H. ALIABADI
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Effective Properties ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Elastic Problem ◽  
Polycrystalline Materials ◽  
Effective Material Properties ◽  
Boundary Integral Representation

In this study, the influence of porosity on the elastic effective properties of polycrystalline materials is investigated using a 3D grain boundary micro mechanical model. The volume fraction of pores, their size and distribution can be varied to better simulate the response of real porous materials. The formulation is built on a boundary integral representation of the elastic problem for the grains, which are modeled as 3D linearly elastic orthotropic domains with arbitrary spatial orientation. The artificial polycrystalline morphology is represented using 3D Voronoi Tessellations. The formulation is expressed in terms of intergranular fields, namely displacements and tractions that play an important role in polycrystalline micromechanics. The continuity of the aggregate is enforced through suitable intergranular conditions. The effective material properties are obtained through material homogenization, computing the volume averages of micro-strains and stresses and taking the ensemble average over a certain number of microstructural samples. The obtained results show the capability of the model to assess the macroscopic effects of porosity.

Study on Damage Mechanism of Pipe Using Ultrasonic Wave and Acoustic Emission Technique

2007 ◽  
Vol 353-358 ◽  
pp. 2415-2418
Author(s):  
Jin Kyung Lee ◽  
Sang Ll Lee ◽  
Joon Hyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Ultrasonic Wave ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Damage Mechanism ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Steel Pipe ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
Acoustic Emission Technique ◽  
Velocity Transmission

A study on corrosion evaluation by using ultrasonic waves and acoustic emission technique is presented. The experimental equipment was established to improve the corrosion process of carbon steel pipe. The carbon steel pipe was under 473K temperatures and 10Mpa pressure conditions, and ultrasonic wave and acoustic emission techniques were used to inspect the degree of corrosion after a certain period of time. Ultrasonic bulk waves are limited by the poor time resolution when used in the measurement of corrosion depth in thin wall structures because the corroded surfaces cause unclear echo signal edges. Therefore, in this study, the ultrasonic guided waves were generated on the pipe because the thickness of pipe was thin. Various wave modes were subsequently generated on the pipe to evaluate the implications of corrosion thinning on group velocity, transmission and reflection amplitudes. The amplitudes of the transmitted and the reflected waves are influenced by couplent material. In order to reduce the effect of coupling acoustic emission sensor was used. Acoustic emission technique has lots of parameters to evaluate the corrosion besides amplitude parameter. Among parameters energy, count, and frequency were useful parameters to measure the degree of corrosion inside the carbon steel pipe under 473K temperatures.

Non-Invasive On-Line Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants Using Guided Waves Propagating in Steel Pipes With Different Types of Structural Complexity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bertoncini ◽  
Mauro Cappelli ◽  
Francesco Cordella ◽  
Marco Raugi
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Steel Pipes ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line

On-line monitoring for installed piping in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), as well as for Oil & Gas and other kind of plants, is crucial to early detect local ageing effects and locate single defects before they may result in critical failures. All the actions able to prevent failures are of great value especially if non-invasive and allowing an In-Service Inspection (ISI). In particular the Long Term Operation (LTO) and Plant Life Extension (PLEX) may be invalidated from radiation, thermal, mechanical stresses besides their own ageing. Hence on-line monitoring techniques are of much interest especially if they assure the required safety levels and at the same time are simple and cost-effective. Guided Waves (GW) satisfy these requirements since they are structure-borne ultrasonic waves that propagate themselves without interfering along the same pipe structure, which in turns through its geometric boundaries serves as a confining structure for the GW used to test its integrity. The frequencies used for GW testing extend up to 250 kHz, thus allowing a long-range inspection of pipes (tens of meters in favorable circumstances). The experimental conditions (e.g. temperature, complex piping structure, wall thickness, materials) have to be considered since they strongly affect the results but GW generated through magnetostrictive sensors are expected to overcome such issues due to their robustness and positioning ease. In this paper, new experimental tests conducted using the proposed methodology for steel pipes having different types of structural complexity are described.

Scattering Matrix Approach to Informing Damage Monitoring and Prognosis in Composite Bolted Connections

2013 ◽  
Vol 558 ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
Colin Haynes ◽  
Takeaki Nadabe ◽  
Nobuo Takeda ◽  
Michael D. Todd
Keyword(s):  
Guided Waves ◽  
Fiber Composite ◽  
Tensile Load ◽  
Propagation Distance ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Extent Of Damage ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Work Done

Structural health monitoring refers to the process of making an assessment, based on nondestructive, in-situ, autonomous measurements, about the ability of a structure to perform its intended function. This paper presents work done on a bolted connection in carbon-fiber reinforced polymer composite materials. A composite specimen is bolted in a double lap joint configuration to a test apparatus that applies an increasing tensile load. Ultimately, the load results in bearing failure of the material around the bolt hole. To monitor the progression of damage, macro fiber composite sensors are bonded in a circular array around the bolt hole. These sensors are then used to generate ultrasonic guided waves, a popular technique in nondestructive evaluation because of the favorable combination of propagation distance and sensitivity to damage. As the specimen is subjected to increasing load levels, measurements are taken repeatedly and compared with one another. Because damage will change the local mechanical properties of the material, the ultrasonic waves passing through the damaged region will be scattered differently in each direction, resulting in a different waveform arriving at the other surrounding sensors. By applying appropriate signal processing techniques, these changes may be interpreted as indicating the extent of damage that has occurred in the specimen. Preliminary analysis is presented demonstrating the correlation between changes in received strain signals and increasing damage levels.

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