Development of Lamb Waves-Based SHM Systems

Abstract:

Guided waves (GW) based methods are a promising tool for structural health monitoring (SHM) of plate-like metallic and composite structures in which high safety standards are required. In this paper we present research with the aim to design and manufacture a prototype of Lamb waves (LW) SHM system. Two approaches can be applied for SHM of plate-like structures. One of them can be based on a sparse array and damage imaging involving incoherent summation of signals envelope. The second approach involves phased arrays with transducers spaced at a distance lower than half wavelength of the excited Lamb-mode. The influence of an arrays parameters on beamforming of Lamb waves is discussed in the case of linear array. It appears that an unequivocal localization of damage on a plate requires a 2D arrays topology; therefore a star-shaped active array was designed and manufactured for the developed SHM system. Two signal processing approaches were applied for that array, the standard one, based on the delay and sum (DAS) synthetic aperture focusing scheme, and the second one, using a self-focusing technique to obtain the separate images for each scatterer existing in the plate.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 518)
• Pages: 87-94
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.518.87
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Lukasz Ambrozinski, Tadeusz Stepinski, Tadeusz Uhl, Janusz Ochonski, Andrzej Klepka
• Keywords: Lamb Wave, Phased Array, Self-Focusing, SHM

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