Factors Influencing Acousto-Ultrasonic Approach to Impact Damage in Composite Materials

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This paper studied factors influencing AU detection results on different damage specimens, including simulation frequency, transducer modes and transducer location. Correlation between acousto-ultrasonic parameters (AUP1, AUP2) and impact damage severity in composite was investigated. The results showed that as damage severity increased, AUP1 and AUP2 of three different transducers decreased. Applying low frequency transducer, the variation of AUP1 may indicate a more rapid detection prospect. In addition, applying S1-transducer and WD-transducer, AUP2 was more effective for the early damage detection. Varying transducer’s location, S1-transducer applying 500khz simulation frequency presented a valuable results.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 393-395)

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97-101

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November 2011

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