声波在固体板中的多径传播及其时间反转声场

采用无穷长条形阵元在固体板自由表面激发,研究了固体板中声波(纵波和横波)传播的多径效应,在射线近似下深入分析了柱面纵波和横波在固体板中的多次反射及波型转换特性,给出了简明解析表达式;将时间反转法应用于固体板中声波的传播,在理论和实验上分析了时间反转声场规律,证明了从不同阵元发出的沿不同路径传播的声波时间反转后同时同相到达原接收点,表明时间反转法能自动补偿固体板中由于多径效应造成的波形畸变;还通过聚焦增益和主副瓣比定量地分析了时间反转声场的自适应聚焦过程,考查了焦点位置和换能器阵列孔径对聚焦效果的影响,得到了理论和实验相符的结果。

Multi-path propagation of acoustical wave and time reversal acoustical field in solid plate

The multi-path effect of the acoustical wave, which is excited by an infinite strip on the free surface of a solid plate, is studied. The multi-reflection and wave conversion of the cylindrical compressional and shear waves in solid plate are analyzed thoroughly by the ray approach method. The concise analytical representation is obtained. The time reversal processing is then applied to the wave propagation in the solid plate and analyzed theoretically and experimentally. It is shown that the waves coming from different arrays and different paths all arrive at the original point after the time reversal operation. It indicates that the time reversal can compensate automatically the wave aberration caused by the multi-path effect. The self-adaptive focusing of the time reversal field is also analyzed quantificationally by the focusing gain and the ratio of the principal to the second lobe. The effects of the focus position and the aperture of the transducer array on the focused field are also investigated. It shows that theoretical and experimental results are consistent to each other very well.