Coating Evaluation Using Ultrasonic Wave Technology

The capability of Rayleigh wave to be used as a tool for the evaluation of CVD DLC coating layer has been presented in this paper. One uncoated specimen and two CVD DLC coated specimen has been used. The dispersion curves of group velocity of leaky Rayleigh wave were measured. The dispersion curve of uncoated specimen shows that the group velocities were same at different frequencies, as there is no coating layer affecting the group velocities at different frequencies. There are distinct different between ‘sound’ specimen and ‘bad bonding’ specimen as the ‘bad bonding’ specimen show unevenness on its dispersion curve.

Monochromatic surface waves at the interface between poroelastic and fluid halfspaces

The topic of the previous work of Albers and Wilmanski was the study of monochromatic surface waves at the boundary between a porous medium and a vacuum. This article is an extension of this research to the propagation of surface waves on the interface between a porous halfspace and a fluid halfspace. Results for phase and group velocities and attenuations are shown in dependence on both the frequency and the surface permeability. In contrast to classical papers on surface waves where only the limits of the frequency ω →0, ω →∞ and the limits of the surface permeability (fully sealed and fully open boundary) were studied, we investigate the problem in the full range of both parameters. For the analysis we use the ‘simple mixture model’ which is a simplification of the classical Biot model for poroelastic media. The construction of a solution is shown and the dispersion relation solved numerically. There exist three surface waves for this boundary: a leaky Rayleigh wave and both a true and a leaky Stoneley wave. The true Stoneley wave exists only in a limited range of the surface permeability.