研究激光激发的声表面波与材料近表面缺陷的振荡效应

根据激光激发声表面波的热弹运动方程及热传导方程, 采取有限元技术对方程进行求解, 得到声表面波传播波形图. 当声表面波经过近表面缺陷时, 声表面波与近表面缺陷之间产生一种振荡效应, 通过近表面缺陷的振荡波形幅值存在一个逐渐增加后又逐渐减小的过程. 当声表面波经过不同深度的近表面缺陷时, 振荡信号中心频率存在一定的变化规律. 数值仿真结果表明: 当近表面缺陷深度从0.1 mm到0.5 mm变化时, 振荡效应产生的振荡信号中心频率从0.4 MHz到0.76 MHz变化, 振荡信号中心频率与近表面缺陷深度呈近似线性关系, 这为近表面缺陷的定量检测提供了一种理论基础.     

利用激光超声技术研究表面微裂纹缺陷材料的低通滤波效应

利用激光激发声表面波的理论模型,研究了被激发宽带声表面波在具有表面微裂纹缺陷金属材料上的传播特性.对具有不同形状的表面缺陷模型进行了数值分析.结果表明:表面微裂纹缺陷有明显的低通效应,缺陷深度越大高频截止频率就越低,缺陷深度与低通滤波的截止频率呈近似线性关系;缺陷的宽度增大对表面波透射能量有明显的衰减作用. 关键词： 激光超声 声表面波 有限元方法 低通滤波器     

表面垂直裂痕诱发瑞利波散射的数值分析

激光激发的声表面波为材料表面缺陷的检测提供了有力的工具.针对含缺陷材料在模型边界上的复杂性,建立了基于平面应变的有限元模型并选取了相同厚度但含有不同深度的表面裂痕的单层铝板进行了对比计算,得到了声表面波经过不同深度的表面裂痕时产生的反射及透射信号波形的时域特征.进而引入了基于Wigner-Ville分布理论的时-频分析方法计算裂痕前、后散射的瞬态表面波的能量在时间-频率平面内分布的情形.结果显示：声表面波接近中心频率的某一频率成分在经过深度小于其中心波长的表面缺陷时,随着裂痕深度的增加,对应于该频率的反射系数呈现单调递增的趋势;而透射系数呈现递减的特征,这一结果可以为激光超声检测表面缺陷提供一种定量的表征手段.     

近表面弹性性质连续变化材料中激光声表面波的理论研究

基于金属材料近表面层弹性性质（杨氏模量）的连续变化，建立了一种激光在基底上的梯度材料中激发声表面波的理论模型，并用有限元方法模拟了脉冲激光作用于材料上表面激发出的超声波及其传播过程.讨论了表面层厚度的变化以及表面层弹性性质的变化对热弹条件下产生的声表面波波形特征的影响，并分别计算了两种情况下的声表面波的相速度色散，得到了两种情况下声表面波的变化规律.     

基于激光超声临界频率的表面缺陷检测与评价

激光超声能够激发宽频带的表面波,可实现金属材料表面微缺陷的定位分析与深度检测。根据表面波在缺陷处的透射/反射阈值现象,提出了测量表面缺陷深度的临界频率法;基于光弹激发原理搭建了激光超声检测平台,得到了铝合金样品的B扫成像,实现了表面缺陷的定位;结合小波变换分析了表面缺陷的透射与反射波形能量分布,测得透射/反射阈值θ_0=1/4,进而采用临界频率法实现了表面微缺陷的深度估计。此外,还分析了激发点与探测点距离、待测样品材料对透射/反射阈值的影响。结果表明,基于激光超声临界频率法可以实现表面微缺陷的定位及深度检测,且透射/反射阈值大小与表面波传播距离、待测样品材质无关。     

基于多模态信号的金属材料缺陷无损检测方法

金属材料缺陷检测对于经济发展具有重要意义.针对现有无损检测技术信号模态单一、检测范围有限等不足,提出了一种基于多模态信号的金属材料缺陷无损检测方法.该方法以光声无损检测方法为主体,首先利用有限元方法分析了缺陷对激光能量吸收量和光声表面波传播的影响,提出了基于激光吸收量和光声表面波的缺陷检测方法;然后搭建了多模态信号检测平台,采集了缺陷的光学、光声和超声三种模态的信号,检测出了裂纹的宽度和分布信息,以及深度和在内部的延伸状况.研究结果表明,本文提出的基于金属材料多模态信号的无损检测方法能够准确、全面地检测出金属材料的杂质和裂纹的尺寸信息,弥补了现有无损检测方法在检测范围上的不足,为缺陷定量检测和全面诊断提供了一个新的思路.     

由于表面粗糙引起的激光声表面波色散的实验和理论研究

表面粗糙是材料制造过程中必有的副产物, 粗糙表面会引起其中传播的声表面波的速度发生变化. 在利用激光声表面波对材料性质进行评估时, 常用宽带的激光声表面波速度频散特性对材料性质进行反演. 为了研究表面粗糙度是否能作为反演的特征参数之一, 本文建立了激光在表面粗糙样品中激发声表面波、聚偏氟乙烯换能器宽带接收声表面波的实验装置来研究不同粗糙度表面对声表面波速度的影响; 理论上建立了激光在粗糙表面中激发声表面波的计算模型, 利用有限元法得到声表面波的时域特征, 并进一步得到声表面波的速度色散曲线, 理论结果和实验结果能很好地拟合. 这为利用激光声表面波对表面粗糙的评估提供理论和实验依据. 关键词： 表面粗糙 激光声表面波 速度色散 聚偏氟乙烯传感器 有限元法     

激光超声检测带过渡圆角平板表面缺陷的数值研究

为了研究激光激发出的超声波在带过渡圆角的金属平板上的传播规律和检测表面缺陷的方法，采用有限元法模拟了该类平板中的激光超声现象，分析了表面波在圆角区域的传播规律和与表面缺陷的作用过程。数值结果表明:激光激发出纵波、横波和Rayleigh波等，其中Rayleigh波主要存在于表面mm量级，并且在过渡圆角处发生模式转换生成了直达波R′和模式转换波R_R等多种表面波；经过过渡区域后的声波在表面缺陷处发生了反射和透射现象，通过B扫图可以检测缺陷的位置。随着缺陷深度的增加，表面波的透射系数不断减小，且透射波R_t和R_st存在0.5 μs左右的到达时间差，该时间差与缺陷深度近似成线性正相关。数值结果为激光超声检测带过渡圆角的平板表面缺陷提供了有价值的参考。     

利用激光超声研究功能梯度材料中声表面波的传播特性

利用有限元的方法建立了脉冲激光在功能材料中激发声表面波的理论模型,根据该理论模型分别分析了脉冲激光在不同空间调制下所激发的声表面波(SAWS)在功能梯度材料表面的传播特性,以及不同力学参量变化对所激发的声表面波传播特性的影响.模拟结果表明,线源激发的宽带声表面波在功能梯度材料表面传播时,声表面波会出现明显的色散效应;当...     

用于铝板缺陷无损检测的激光超声有限元模拟研究

激光超声技术能够在材料表面形成超声波，是实现材料缺陷无损检测的重要环节。借助Abaqus有限元分析工具，基于激光超声热弹机制建立了轴对称铝板的表面缺陷模型，模拟了激光激发产生的表面波在材料中的传播特性及其与铝板缺陷的相互作用过程。数值模拟实验表明，铝板表面缺陷的分布深度值越大，反射波越强，并且当缺陷深度达到一定程度时，反射波的幅值趋于稳定；但缺陷的分布宽度对于反射波的影响则十分有限。所得结论为基于激光超声的材料缺陷的定量检测及识别提供有效的理论依据。     

Surface wave transmission measurements across distributed surface-breaking cracks using air-coupled sensors

Near-field scattering of surface waves by a single surface-breaking crack in solid medium has been well investigated by prior researchers. However, there have been few studies for more realistic problems involving near scattering of surface waves by distributed surface-breaking cracks. One possible reason is complexity caused by the interaction of surface waves between multiple cracks. In this study, interaction of surface waves between two surface-breaking cracks with various crack spacing was investigated. The experimental study was performed on Plexiglas specimens with non-contact sensors (air-coupled sensors, and a laser vibrometer), and compared with numerical simulation results. The effects of crack depth h, spacing a, and the number of cracks N on surface wave transmission were studied. Analyses show that for the very small crack spacing (a/h<0.2), the distributed cracks can be regarded as a single surface-breaking crack. However, for a/h ranging between approximately 1 and 6, transmission coefficient of surface waves is significantly affected by interaction between cracks. The transmission coefficients have the lowest value when a/h is between 2 and 3. When a/h is large (a/h>6), transmission coefficients obtained from experiments, and numerical simulations agree with the theoretical results based on non-interaction crack assumption.     

Nonlinear acoustic scattering by a partially closed surface-breaking crack

A theoretical model describing the nonlinear scattering of acoustic waves by surface-breaking cracks with faces in partial contact is presented. The nonlinear properties of the crack are accounted for by suitable boundary conditions that are derived from micromechanical models of the dynamics of elastic rough surfaces in contact. Both linear and nonlinear responses of the crack are shown to be largest for a shear vertical wave incident on the surface containing the crack at an angle just above the critical angle for longitudinal waves. These findings question the fitness for the purpose of a conventional inspection method, which utilizes shear vertical waves at 45 degrees of incidence to search for surface-breaking cracks in many engineering components. For angles of incidence proximal to the critical angle of longitudinal waves, the efficiency of the second harmonic's generation appears to be the highest. Thanks to the increased sensitivity to surface-breaking cracks, this configuration seems to offer a solution to the localization problem, a task that has eluded nonlinear techniques operating under other circumstances. Finally, this model suggests a simple interpretation of the highly localized nonlinear response of delaminations in composite materials.     

Attenuation and dispersion of Rayleigh waves propagating on a cracked surface: an effective field approach

A new effective field approach describing the attenuation and dispersion of a Rayleigh wave propagating on a surface containing a distribution of one-dimensional, surface-breaking cracks is presented. Limited by the validity of the independent scattering approximation, the model utilizes the complex transmission coefficient of a single crack to build expressions for the phase velocity and attenuation coefficient of an effective Rayleigh wave. The model is shown to be able to accommodate the effect of compressive residual stresses that tend to close the distributed cracks at their mouth, and therefore substantially reduce the attenuation and the velocity change caused by an equivalent distribution of open cracks. Wherever possible, the predictions of the new model are compared with those of other approaches and critical remarks are offered which discuss the advantages of the effective field approach over the others. Finally, an extension of this approach to distributions of two-dimensional surface-breaking cracks is outlined.     

Finite element analysis of Rayleigh wave interaction with finite-size,surface-breaking cracks

The interaction of surface acoustic waves with finite-size, surface-breaking, semi-circular cracks is studied numerically, and experimentally. We focus on the behavior of the reflection coefficient of the Rayleigh wave from such cracks in the far field of the crack, when the depth of the crack is comparable to the wavelength of the interrogating surface wave. The cases in which the depth of the crack is much smaller or much larger compared to the wavelength have been extensively investigated by many authors and are not considered here except for validating the numerical and experimental results in these regimes. The theoretical, finite element, and experimental results presented are in very good agreement over the range were the crack depth is much smaller or much larger compared to the wavelength of the incident Rayleigh wave. In the transition regime, between these two limiting cases, only the finite element and experimental data show good agreement since the theoretical predictions are no longer applicable. In the high crack depth to wavelength ratio (a/lambda(R)) regime, the finite element and experimental results close to the crack approach the limiting value of the reflection coefficient from a 90 degrees corner.     

Measurement of surface wave transmission coefficient across surface-breaking cracks and notches in concrete

In this paper, a technique for measuring a surface wave transmission coefficient across surface-breaking cracks and notches in a heterogeneous but globally isotropic material (concrete) is presented. Once the transmission coefficient across a surface discontinuity is known, its depth may be estimated. There are many difficulties in measuring the transmission coefficient experimentally owing to effects of wave path dependence, unknown characteristics of the receiver and the wave source, and the variation of impact event or receiver coupling. To eliminate the undesired effects, a self-calibrating measurement scheme is applied to obtain the surface wave transmission coefficient across notches and surface-breaking cracks in concrete. The obtained signal transmission coefficient is not affected by the experimental setup or the heterogeneous nature of the material. The testing scheme is described and experimental results obtained from concrete specimens with notches and surface-breaking cracks are presented. Repeatable and reliable measurements of surface wave transmission coefficient are obtained, which demonstrate a strong relation to normalized discontinuity depth. A numerical study using the boundary element method is presented, which verifies the experimental findings.     

Short range scattering of the fundamental shear horizontal guided wave mode normally incident at a through-thickness crack in an isotropic plate

Interaction of the fundamental shear horizontal mode with through-thickness cracks in an isotropic plate is studied in the context of low frequency array imaging for ultrasonic guided wave nondestructive evaluation with improved resolution. Circular wave fronts are used and the symmetric case where a line from the wave source bisects the crack face normally is considered. Finite element simulations are employed to obtain trends subject to analytical and experimental validation. The influence of the crack length and of the location of source and measurement positions on the specular reflection from the crack face is first examined. These studies show that low frequency short range scattering is strongly affected by diffraction phenomena, leading to focusing of energy by the crack in the backscatter direction. Study of the diffraction from the crack edges reveals contributions due to a direct diffraction at the edges and multiple reverberations across the crack length. A simple diffraction model is shown to adequately represent cracks up to moderate lengths, providing an easy means of estimating the far field of the waves. The presence of multiple diffraction components is quantitatively established and surface waves on the crack face are identified as equivalent to low frequency symmetric modes of rectangular ridge waveguides.     

Crack depth measurement by ultrasonics: a review

A review is given of both bulk and surface wave ultrasonic methods for the measurement of the depth of surface-breaking cracks. Research is considered which relates to techniques for measuring crack depth by studying the scattered pulse amplitude, by using time-of-flight methods, or by carrying out ultrasonic spectroscopic analysis. Measurement of the transit time of bulk waves appears most likely to provide simple and reliable depth measurement in the near future. Further work in the other two areas should also prove valuable. Some suggestions are made of promising directions for future research.     

Image-based sizing of surface-breaking cracks by SH-wave array ultrasonic testing

This paper presents calibration-free crack sizing techniques based on ultrasonic imaging. The techniques are intended for 2D (line) surface-breaking cracks with the size of the incident wavelength or greater. The probing wave mode is the anti-plane shear wave (SH-wave). Two methods are employed for the ultrasonic imaging. One is a synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) and the other is a computed time-reversal focusing technique (TRFT). In this paper, those methods are modified so that crack tips are located directly from measured A-scope waveforms without any calibration experiments. The results are shown as a peak in the ultrasonic image created by the respective methods. Reasonable accuracies of the proposed techniques are demonstrated first for the sizing of slits with known depths. The techniques are applied thereafter to the sizing of fatigue cracks. Since fatigue cracks may not be open without an external load, ultrasonic measurements are taken with and without external loads. The results of the imaging show that the depths of open cracks can be estimated accurately. It is also shown that crack opening (closing) behavior can be deduced by observing appearance (disappearance) of the peak in the images indicating the crack tip.     

Analytical modeling and vibration analysis of internally cracked rectangular plates

This study proposes an analytical model for nonlinear vibrations in a cracked rectangular isotropic plate containing a single and two perpendicular internal cracks located at the center of the plate. The two cracks are in the form of continuous line with each parallel to one of the edges of the plate. The equation of motion for isotropic cracked plate, based on classical plate theory is modified to accommodate the effect of internal cracks using the Line Spring Model. Berger?s formulation for in-plane forces makes the model nonlinear. Galerkin?s method used with three different boundary conditions transforms the equation into time dependent modal functions. The natural frequencies of the cracked plate are calculated for various crack lengths in case of a single crack and for various crack length ratio for the two cracks. The effect of the location of the part through crack(s) along the thickness of the plate on natural frequencies is studied considering appropriate crack compliance coefficients. It is thus deduced that the natural frequencies are maximally affected when the crack(s) are internal crack(s) symmetric about the mid-plane of the plate and are minimally affected when the crack(s) are surface crack(s), for all the three boundary conditions considered. It is also shown that crack parallel to the longer side of the plate affect the vibration characteristics more as compared to crack parallel to the shorter side. Further the application of method of multiple scales gives the nonlinear amplitudes for different aspect ratios of the cracked plate. The analytical results obtained for surface crack(s) are also assessed with FEM results. The FEM formulation is carried out in ANSYS.