Ultrasonic Newton's rings

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1992
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Hsu, David
Dayal, Vinay
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Aerospace Engineering
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Interference fringes due to bondline thickness variation were observed in ultrasonic scans of the reflected echo amplitude from the bondline of adhesively joined aluminum skins. To demonstrate that full-field interference patterns are observable in point-by-point ultrasonic scans, an optical setup for Newton's rings was scanned ultrasonically in a water immersion tank. The ultrasonic scan showed distinct Newton's rings whose radii were in excellent agreement with the prediction.

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This article is from Applied Physics Letters 60 (1992): 1169, doi: 10.1063/1.107394. Posted with permission.

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Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1992
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