THEORETICAL MODELING OF LOW-ATTENUATION LAMB WAVE MODES GENERATION IN THREE-LAYER ADHESIVE JOINTS USING ANGLE BEAM TRANSDUCER

Authors

  • PEZHMAN TAGHIPOUR BIRGANI DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY, AHVAZ, IRAN
  • KHOSRO NADERAN TAHAN DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY, AHVAZ, IRAN
  • SINA SODAGAR DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL INSPECTION ENGINEERING, ABADAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, IRAN
  • MOHAMMAD SHISHESAZ DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY, AHVAZ, IRAN

Keywords:

THREE-LAYER ADHESIVE JOINTS, VISCOELASTIC, LAMB WAVE GENERATION, ATTENUATION, TRANSDUCER INCIDENCE ANGLE.

Abstract

IN THIS PAPER, AT FIRST THE ATTENUATION OF LAMB WAVES IN THREE-LAYER ADHESIVE JOINTS, INCLUDING TWO ELASTIC PLATES BONDED TOGETHER BY A VISCOELASTIC ADHESIVE LAYER, IS INVESTIGATED USING GLOBAL MATRIX METHOD AND THEN SUITABLE INCIDENCE ANGLE IS THEORETICALLY CALCULATED TO GENERATE LOW-ATTENUATION LAMB WAVES USING ANGLE BEAM TRANSDUCER. THEORETICAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM IN THREE-LAYER ADHESIVE JOINTS WITH PERFECT BOND AND TRACTION-FREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THEIR OUTER SURFACES IS SOLVED TO FIND A COMBINATION OF FREQUENCIES AND MODES WITH LOWEST ATTENUATION. CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION IS DERIVED BY APPLYING CONTINUITY AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN THREE-LAYER JOINTS USING GLOBAL MATRIX METHOD. PHASE VELOCITY DISPERSION CURVES AND ATTENUATION INTENSITY PLOT IN HIGH AND LOW FREQUENCIES ARE OBTAINED WITH NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THIS EQUATION BY A COMPUTER CODE FOR A THREE-LAYER JOINT, INCLUDING AN ALUMINUM REPAIR PATCH BONDED TO THE AIRCRAFT ALUMINUM SKIN BY A LAYER OF VISCOELASTIC EPOXY ADHESIVE. TO VALIDATE THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION RESULTS OF CHARACTERISTIC EQUATION, WAVE STRUCTURE CURVES ARE PLOTTED FOR A SPECIAL MODE IN TWO DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES IN THE ADHESIVE JOINT. ALSO, TRANSDUCER INCIDENCE ANGLE IS CALCULATED IN TERMS OF FREQUENCY FOR DIFFERENT MODES USING THEORETICAL METHOD TO GENERATE LAMB WAVE MODES WITH LOW ATTENUATION LEVEL BY ANGLE BEAM TRANSDUCER. THESE MODES ARE RECOGNIZABLE BY TRANSDUCERS IN INSPECTIONS WITH LAMB WAVES BECAUSE OF LOW ATTENUATION LEVEL.

Author Biography

PEZHMAN TAGHIPOUR BIRGANI, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY, AHVAZ, IRAN

I WAS BORN IN AHVAZ, IRAN, IN 1980. I RECEIVED THE B.SC. DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FROM AHVAZ BRANCH, ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY IN 2004, AND THE M.SC. DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FROM SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY IN 2008. AT PRESENT, I AM A PH.D. STUDENT OF SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY. MY RESEARCH IN PH.D. COURSE IS THE INVESTIGATION OF LAMB WAVES PROPAGATION IN ELASTIC-VISCOELASTIC ADHESIVE JOINTS FOR FINDING THE MODES WITH LOW ATTENUATION.

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2015-01-22

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2015)

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