Air-coupled, focused ultrasonic dispersion spectrum reconstruction in plates
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Holland, Stephen
Teles, Sorin
Chimenti, Dale
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This paper presents and demonstrates a noncontact method for measuring the Lamb wave dispersion spectrum of a plate. Noncontact air-coupled source and receive transducers are used with line-focus mirrors and 50–700 kHz broadband apparatus for simultaneous measurement over a broad spectrum of refractive angles and multiple guided modes. Broadband, wide-angle wave forms are measured as a function of position. The Fourier transform of these wave forms from the t – x domain to the v – k domain gives an approximate spectrum of the dispersion relation. We measure the dispersion spectra of Lucite™, aluminum, balsa wood, and a carbon fiber epoxy laminate, and show that the measured spectra agree well with the dispersion relation calculated from Lamb wave theory.
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This article was originally published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115, no. 6 (June 2004): 2866–2872, doi:10.1121/1.1710501.