Effect of uniaxial stress on the propagation of higher-order Lamb wave modes

On the basis of the non-linear theory of elasticity and the invariant based formulation developed by Ogden, we analyse the effect of homogeneous stress on the propagation of Lamb waves. Using the theory of incremental deformations superimposed on large deformations, we derive the equations governing the propagation of small amplitude waves in a pre-stressed plate. By enforcing traction-free boundary conditions at the surfaces of the plate, we further obtain the characteristic equations for symmetric and anti-symmetric Lamb wave modes and investigate the effect of stress on the phase velocity, i.e. the acoustoelastic effect. A comparison with experimental data exhibits a better correlation than previously published results. The outcomes of this study can be utilised in the development of new techniques for the measurement of applied stresses based on the acoustoelastic effect. In particular, a strong sensitivity of the phase velocity to the applied stress near the cut-off frequencies of higher-order Lamb wave modes is a very promising option, which seems to have been overlooked in previous studies.     

基于多通道时间反转Lamb波的铝板小缺陷检测

超声Lamb波具有传播距离远、衰减小等特点,广泛应用于板结构的无损检测。将Lamb波检测技术与时间反转理论相结合,能提高铝板中小缺陷的检测能力。采用多通道时间反转板中Lamb波聚焦方法对1mm厚的铝板中直径0.8mm通孔缺陷进行检测,检测结果显示多通道时间反转检测信号中形成了两处明显的聚焦,即直达波和缺陷回波聚焦,证明此方法有效提高了检测分辨铝板小缺陷的能力。最后通过直达波、缺陷回波两处聚焦的时间差和Lamb波S_0模态群速度,准确实现了铝板中小缺陷的定位。多通道时间反转Lamb波聚焦方法不仅得到了缺陷检测回波,而且准确实现了缺陷的定位,达到了提高铝板中小缺陷检测能力的目的。     

Nonlinear Lamb waves in plate/shell structures

鉴于常规超声检测技术对分布式材料细微损伤和接触类结构损伤的检测效果不佳,近年来非线性超声技术逐渐引起广泛关注.超声波在板壳结构中通常以兰姆波的形式进行传播,然而由于兰姆波的频散及多模特性,使得非线性兰姆波的理论和实验研究进展缓慢.本文从经典非线性理论出发,总结了源于材料固有非线性诱发的非线性兰姆波的理论和实验两个方面的研究进展,并综述了兰姆波的二次谐波发生效应在材料损伤评价方面的若干应用;从接触声非线性理论出发,讨论了目前由于接触类结构损伤诱发的非线性兰姆波的研究现状.最后展望了非线性兰姆波的未来研究重点及发展趋势.     

板壳结构中的非线性兰姆波

鉴于常规超声检测技术对分布式材料细微损伤和接触类结构损伤的检测效果不佳,近年来非线性超声技术逐渐引起广泛关注.超声波在板壳结构中通常以兰姆波的形式进行传播,然而由于兰姆波的频散及多模特性,使得非线性兰姆波的理论和实验研究进展缓慢.本文从经典非线性理论出发,总结了源于材料固有非线性诱发的非线性兰姆波的理论和实验两个方面的研究进展,井综述了兰姆波的二次谐波发生效应在材料损伤评价方面的若干应用;从接触声非线性理论出发,讨论了目前由于接触类结构损伤诱发的非线性兰姆波的研究现状.最后展望了非线性兰姆波的未来研究重点及发展趋势.     

Lamb wave mode decomposition using concentric ring and circular piezoelectric transducers

Lamb waves using surface-bonded piezoelectric transducers (PZTs) have been widely used for nondestructive testing (NDT). However, the identification of individual Lamb wave modes and the subsequent data interpretation are often difficult due to the dispersive and multimodal natures of Lamb waves. To tackle the problem, a Lamb wave mode decomposition technique using concentric ring and circular PZTs is proposed. Its advantages over the conventional approaches are that (1) PZTs need to be placed only a single surface of a specimen and (2) mode decomposition can be performed at any desired frequency without changing the PZT size and/or spacing configuration. The proposed mode decomposition technique is formulated by solving 3D Lamb wave propagation equations considering the PZT size and shape, and this technique requires a specially designed dual PZT composed of concentric ring and circular PZTs. The effectiveness of the proposed technique for the Lamb wave mode decomposition is investigated through numerical simulation and experimental tests performed on an aluminum plate.     

多孔材料中声波的传播与演化

采用两相多孔介质的拉格朗日模型来描述一种理论流体充填的多孔弹性固体材料,其中孔隙度的变化满足一个附加的平衡方程。     

偏压电场作用下磁电弹板中Lamb波传播研究

基于磁电弹性材料的本构关系和运动微分方程,研究了磁电弹板中Lamb波的传播特性.在电磁开路和短路两种边界条件下,导出了偏压电场作用下磁电弹板中Lamb波的对称模态和反对称模态的相速度方程,求解了相应的应力场.通过数值算例分析了偏压电场对相速度和应力场的影响.结果表明,偏压电场对相速度有较大影响,对应力场几乎没有影响.研究成果可为设计磁电换能器提供一定的理论参考.     

Resonance of Feshbach-type and explosive instability of magnetoelastic waves in solids

In this paper, we theoretically describe a magnetoelastic system with an explosive instability in which the magnetic energy can be converted into the mechanical one via an extremely efficient channel. The principle is based on the amplification of acoustic waves traveling in an antiferromagnetic crystal under the action of transversal electromagnetic pumping. It is known that such parametric interaction can produce an exponential acoustic wave amplification. Our finding consists in the addition of another pumping channel by means of a discrete resonant acoustic mode whose impact is similar to the Feshbach resonance observed in another physical system (ultra-cold gazes). The addition of the second pumping mechanism results in the explosive instability having the dynamics of a singularity at a finite time instead of the exponential growth. In our example the traveling waves are Lamb waves in an antiferromagnetic plate, and the additional pumping is a shear resonance. We establish equations governing the considered three-phonon parametric instability, theoretically analyze the instability conditions, and give a relevant numerical example illustrating the explosive magneto-acoustic dynamics. It is shown that the explosive scenario can occur with a very low signal level i.e. Lamb waves amplitudes comparable to spontaneous noise in the system.     

Effect of a biasing electric field on the propagation of antisymmetric Lamb waves in piezoelectric plates

Based on the theories of anisotropic elasticity, piezoelectricity and elastic waves in solids, the propagation of antisymmetric Lamb waves in a biasing electric field is investigated in this paper. By solving the coupled differential equations of motion under a biasing electric field, the phase velocity equations of antisymmetric Lamb wave modes for electrically open and shorted cases are obtained, respectively. The beating effect arising from the difference between the phase velocity of the zero-order symmetric mode and antisymmetric mode exists in the plate when the plate has a thickness comparable to or slightly larger than the wavelength. The influence of the biasing electric field on the phase velocity, beat wavelength, mechanical displacement and stress fields for the lowest two antisymmetric modes of Lamb waves are discussed in detail. From the calculated results, it is seen that the phase velocity of the fundamental antisymmetric mode is especially sensitive to the applied biasing electric field.     

Long-Wave Asymptotics of Lamb Waves

The six-dimensional complex formalism is used to obtain equations for determining long-wave asymptotics of symmetric fundamental modes of Lamb waves in an anisotropic layer. Analytic expressions are obtained for long-wave asymptotics of phase velocities of Lamb waves propagating in an isotropic layer.     

Laser-induced stress wave thermometry applied to silicon wafer processing: Modeling and experimentation

We present a methodology correlating the group velocity of guided plate waves to temperature in anisotropic silicon substrate. The model is developed through numerical solution and manipulation of the dispersion relations, while elastic constants and plate thickness are treated as functions of temperature. Analytical results demonstrate that adequate thermal resolution is provided by both the lowest-order antisymmetric and symmetric dispersive Lamb wave modes to serve as an effective diagnostic in a noncontact thermometry scheme applicable during rapid thermal processing of silicon waters. Validation is made through a combination of experimentation using laser-generated ultrasound in silicon wafers and analysis employing the Gabor wavelet transform to extract frequency- and temperature-dependent group velocities from the dispersive Lamb waves.     

Numerical modeling of PZT-induced Lamb wave-based crack detection in plate-like structures

This paper presents the numerical modeling and simulations of PZT-induced Lamb wave propagation in plate-like structures by using the spectral finite element method. A novel spectral plate finite element, which can efficiently model the three-dimensional (3D) behavior of Lamb waves, is proposed. In the formulation, linear displacement distributions in the thickness direction are assumed for both the PZT layer and the base plate. A way to avoid the thickness locking is proposed and used in the formulations. Two examples, one for the validation of the proposed two-dimensional (2D) spectral finite element and the other for the demonstration of crack detection in plates, are presented and discussed. The contact between the two faces of crack is considered. Numerical results show that (1) only the anti-symmetric mode is prone to thickness locking thus remedy should be made only on this part, (2) the proposed 2D spectral finite element can adequately model the Lamb wave propagation in plate-like structures and the complex scattering for the crack, and (3) crack location can be well determined by a PZT-induced Lamb wave-based diagnosis algorithm.     

Weakly nonlinear long waves in a prestretched Blatz-Ko cylinder: Solitary, kink and periodic waves

This paper studies nonlinear waves in a prestretched cylinder composed of a Blatz-Ko material. Starting from the three-dimensional field equations, two coupled PDEs for modeling weakly nonlinear long waves are derived by using the method of coupled series and asymptotic expansions. Comparing with some other existing models in literature, an important feature of these equations is that they are consistent with traction-free surface conditions asymptotically. Also, the material nonlinearity is kept to the third order. As these two PDEs are quite complicated, the attention is focused on traveling waves, for which a first-order system of ODEs are obtained. We use the technique of dynamical systems to carry out the analysis. It turns out that the system is three parameters (the prestretch, the propagating speed and an integration constant) dependent and there are totally seven types of phase planes which contain trajectories representing bounded traveling waves. The parametric conditions for each phase plane are established. A variety of solitary and periodic waves are found. An important finding is that kink waves can propagate in a Blatz-Ko cylinder. We also find that one type of periodic waves has an interesting feature in the profile slope. Analytical expressions for all bounded traveling waves are obtained.     

Constructing an analytical solution for lamb waves using the cosserat continuum approach

The problem of propagation of a Lamb elastic wave in a thin plate is considered using the Cosserat continuum model. The deformed state is characterized by independent displacement and rotation vectors. Solutions of the equations of motion are sought in the form of wave packets specified by a Fourier spectrum of an arbitrary shape for three components of the displacement vector and three components of the rotation vector which depend on time, depth, and the longitudinal coordinate. The initial system of equations is split into two systems, one of which describes a Lamb wave and the second corresponds to a transverse wave whose amplitude depends on depth. Analytical solutions in displacements are obtained for the waves of both types. Unlike the solution for Lamb waves, the solution obtained for the transverse wave has no analogs in classical elasticity theory. The solution for the transverse wave is compared with the solution for the Lamb wave. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 143–150, January–February, 2007. An erratum to this article is available at .     

正交各向异性板中非主轴方向的Lamb波

基于线性三维弹性理论,采用勒让德正交多项式展开法,推导了波沿正交各向异性材料非主轴方向传播时的Lamb波耦合波动方程,并对耦合波动方程进行了数值求解。为验证该方法的适用性和正确性,首先将此方法应用于各向同性材料,并与已知的数据结果进行了比较;然后以单向纤维增强复合材料为例,计算了耦合Lamb波沿不同的非主轴方向传播时的相速度频散曲线,并分别研究了传播方向改变时低阶模态Lamb波和高阶模态Lamb波频散特性的变化。最后,针对潜在用于各向异性复合材料结构健康监测的耦合Lamb波低阶模态,给出了其在不同传播方向时的相速度分布和群速度分布。同时,结合低阶模态Lamb波的位移分布特性和材料的各向异性特点,阐释了S0模态对波的传播方向变化最为敏感的原因。     

Effect of a biasing electric field on the propagation of symmetric Lamb waves in piezoelectric plates

This paper is concerned with the effect of a biasing electric field on the propagation of Lamb waves in a piezoelectric plate. On the basis of three dimensional linear elastic equations and piezoelectric constitutive relations, the differential equations of motion under a biasing electric field are obtained and solved. Due to the symmetry of the plate, there are symmetric and antisymmetric modes with respect to the median plane of the piezoelectric plate. According to the characteristics of symmetric modes (odd potential state) and antisymmetric modes (even potential state), the phase velocity equations of symmetric and antisymmetric modes of Lamb wave propagation are obtained for both electrically open and shorted cases. The effect of a biasing electric field on the phase velocity, electromechanical coupling coefficient, stress field and mechanical displacement of symmetric and antisymmetric Lamb wave modes are discussed in this paper and an accompanying paper respectively. It is shown that the biasing electric field has significant effect on the phase velocity and electromechanical coupling coefficient, the time delay owning to the velocity change is useful for high voltage measurement and temperature compensation, the increase in the electromechanical coupling coefficient can be used to improve the efficiency of transduction.     

Effect of relaxation times on circular crested waves in thermoelastic diffusive plate

The propagation of circularly crested thermoelastic diffusive waves in an infinite homogeneous transversely isotropic plate subjected to stress free, isothermal/insulated and chemical potential conditions is investigated in the framework of different thermo- elastic diffusion theories. The dispersion equations of thermoelastic diffusive Lamb type waves are derived. Some special cases of the dispersion equations are also deduced.     

一种用于计算板中缺陷兰姆波散射的混合边界元法

本文介绍了一种将传统边界元法和兰姆波的本征模式函数相结合的混合边界元法，用此方法解决兰姆波在板材中传播时遇到缺陷发生的散射问题，计算了兰姆波通过缺陷后的反射与透射系数。文中给出了若干兰姆波信号幅度与板中不同深度缺陷的相互关系。     

On attenuation of free and forced waves in an infinitely long visco-elastic layer of a constant thickness

The conventional concepts of a loss factor and a complex-valued elastic module are used to study wave attenuation in a visco-elastic layer. The hierarchy of reduced order models is employed to assess attenuation levels of free and forced waves in various situations. First, the free waves are considered. In the low frequency limit, the attenuation of these waves is found to be in the excellent agreement with the existing knowledge. At high frequencies, predictions of the reduced order models fully agree with the solutions of exact Rayleigh–Lamb problem. Alternative excitation cases are considered for the forcing problem and a measure of the attenuation level is proposed and validated. The differences between two regimes, the low frequency one, when a waveguide supports only one propagating wave, and the high frequency one, when several waves are supported, are demonstrated and explained.     

Lamb波理论及层合板冲击损伤的实验研究

从理论上分析了板中Lamb波信号的传播特性,并给出Lamb波在板中传播的频散方程。理论分析及实验均表明,Lamb波的频散特性与复合材料结构损伤有着直接的联系,而且最低阶的对称和反对称Lamb波模态对层合板的损伤比较敏感,但应用Lamb波的频散效应监测结构的损伤在检测技术上还难以实现。根据板中导波形成Lamb波的共振原理,板中应力波的幅频特性很大程度上反映了Lamb波的谐振特征。因此,利用压电元件的压电阻抗谱分析应力波的各阶模态频率及振幅对结构损伤的变化,能够反映材料内部损伤与Lamb波的频散特性。文中针对表面粘贴压电元件的层合板智能结构,建立了包含Lamb波谐振模式的压电阻抗计算模型。冲击损伤试件的实验表明,由于结构损伤的出现压电阻抗谱中的模态频率及其阻抗幅值等特征信息将发生变化。因此,引入应力波损伤因子可以对结构冲击损伤的存在和程度进行初步评价。该方法基于结构的机-电动态阻抗特性,不受结构的几何形状限制,测试用的压电元件成本低,方法简单可行,有望在智能结构的健康诊断方面获得应用。