Development of an Acoustic Model for Multilayered NDE
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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A computer based acoustic model has been developed for the NDE of multilayered structures [1]. The model is applicable for normal or off-normal incident excitation, with receiver in pulse-echo, pitch-catch or in array mode. The model can simulate the observed signal for arbitrary frequency response of the transmitting and receiving transducer. In addition, the model considers attenuation and mode conversion effects in each layer in predicting the ultrasonic response.
While earlier works [2,3,4] considered normal incidence and non attenuative media, the current model’s capabilities have been expanded to include off-normal incident angles and the attendant mode conversions created with this inspection configuration. Another feature included in this model is provision for attenuation within each layer. It can be modeled as constant over all frequencies or as a frequency dependent quantity, such as a constant “0” model. Common materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, rubber and biological tissues exhibit this property.
The paper will focus on model development and discuss results obtained for a bronze-rubber multilayer structure.