Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering

A Study on the Characteristics of Lamb Wave Based on the Finite Element Method

Authors
Xiaoming Chen, Jiale Cui, Songsong Li
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Xiaoming Chen
Available Online April 2015.
DOI
10.2991/meic-15.2015.134How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Nondestructive testing; EMAT; Lamb; Dispersion; Finite element
Abstract

Electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave, with the advantage of quickly detecting the defect, is widely used in nondestructive testing of thin plate. However, it is related to the characteristics of Lamb waves that selecting mode of guided waves and estimating the detecting range. Therefore, this paper studies the propagation characteristics of Lamb waves, including directivity of sound field, multi-mode and dispersion. This paper mainly studied on the Lamb wave characteristics of the 1mm-thick aluminum plate based on the finite element method. Results show that: A0 and S0 modes, which are only detected in the plate, have a strong directivity of sound field when the excitation frequency is in the range of 0.08MHz to 1MHz. There is only A0 mode in aluminum plate when the excitation frequency is lesser than 0.188MHz. When the excitation frequency is in the range of 0.45MHz to 0.64MHz, the displacement amplitude of the S0 mode is gradually increasing. The displacement amplitude of the A0 mode is minimum, while it is larger in the S0 mode when the excitation frequency is 0.64MHz. The results of this paper provide a basis for selecting the best excitation frequency and mode of guided waves, which have the promising application prospect in quickly and accurately nondestructive testing.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
April 2015
ISBN
10.2991/meic-15.2015.134
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2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/meic-15.2015.134How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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