Development of a low-frequency high purity A 0 mode transducer for SHM applications

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1457-1468

  Clarke, Thomas ^a   Simonetti, Francesco ^a   Rohklin, Stanislav ^b   Cawley, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ISSUES; ENERGY RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; GUIDED ULTRASONIC WAVES; GUIDED WAVE; HIGH PURITY; IN-PLANE DISPLACEMENT; LOW FREQUENCY; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; POISSON'S RATIO;

PIEZOELECTRICITY; POISSON RATIO; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; ULTRASONICS;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68249159435     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1201     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. T. E. Michaels, J. E. Michaels, "Sparse ultrasonic transducer array for structural health monitoring," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 23, 2004, pp. 1468-1475.
2. X. Zhao, H. Gao, G. Zhang, B. ayhan, f. Yan, C. Kwan, and J. L. Rose, "Active health monitoring of an aircraft wing with embedded piezoelectric sensor/actuator network: I. Defect detection, localization and growth monitoring," Smart Mater. Struct., vol. 16, pp. 1208-1217, 2007.
3. J.-B. Ihn and F.-K. Chang, "Pitch-catch active sensing methods in structural health monitoring," Struct. Health Monit., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 5-19, 2008.
4. M. Lemistre and D. Balageas, "Structural helth monitoring system based on difracted Lamb wave analysis by multiresolution processing," Smart Mater. Struct., vol. 10, pp. 504-511, 2001.
5. S. Grondel, J. Assad, C. Delabarre, and E. Moulin, "Health monitoring of a composite wingbox structure," Ultrasonics, vol. 42, pp. 819-824, apr. 2004.
6. D. N. Alleyne and P. Cawley, "Optimisation of Lamb wave inspection techniques," NDT Int., vol. 25, pp. 11-22, 1992.
7. K. Worden, C. R. Farrar, G. Manson, and G. Park, "The fundamental axioms of structural health monitoring," Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, vol. 463, pp. 1639-1664, 2007.
8. A. J. Croxford, P. D. Wilcox, B. W. drinkwater, and G. Konstan-tinidis, "Strategies for guided wave structural health monitoring," Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A, vol. 463, pp. 2961-2981, 2007.
9. T. Clarke, F. Simonetti, and P. Cawley, "Guided wave health monitoring of complex structures by sparse array systems: Infuence of temperature changes on performance," J. Sound Vibr., 2009, to be published.
10. A. J. Croxford, P. D. Wilcox, G. Konstantinidis, and B. W. Drink-water, "Strategies for overcoming the efect of temperature on guided wave structural health monitoring," Proc. SPIE, vol. 6532, art. no. 65321t, 2007.
11. J. E. Michaels and T. E. Michaels, "Detection of structural damage from the local temporal coherence of difuse ultrasonic signals," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 1769-1782, 2005.
12. 0 mode transducer developed for SHM applications," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 27, 2008, pp. 910-917.
13. B. Xu and V. Giurgiutiu, "Single mode Tunning efects on Lamb wave time reversal with piezoelectric wafer active sensors for structural health monitoring," J. Nondestruct. Eval., vol. 26, pp. 123-134, 2007.
14. H. W. Park, H. Sohn, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar, "Time reversal active sensing for health monitoring of a composite plate," J. Sound Vibrat., vol. 302, pp. 50-66, 2007.
15. 0 mode of Lamb waves," Struct. Health Monit., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 271-285, 2008.
16. P. D. Wilcox, M. J. S. Lowe, and P. cawley, "A signal processing technique to remove the efect of dispersion from guided wave signals," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 20, 2001, pp. 555-562.
17. R. S. C. Monkhouse, P. D. Wilcox, and P. cawley, "flexible interdigital PVDF transducers for the generation of Lamb waves in structures," Ultrasonics, vol. 35, pp. 489-498, 1997.
18. P. Fromme, P. D. Wilcox, M. Lowe, and P. Cawley, "On the development and testing of a guided ultrasonic wave array for structural health monitoring," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 77-792, 2006.
19. P. W. Loveday, "Simulation of Piezoelectric Excitation of Guided Waves Using Waveguide Finite Elements," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2038-2045, 2008.
20. M. J. S. Lowe, "Matrix techniques for modeling ultrasonic waves in multilayered media," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 525-542, 1995.
21. M. Drozdz, L. Moreau, M. castaings, M. J. S. Lowe, and P. Cawley, "Efficient numerical modelling of absorbing regions for boundaries of guided waves problems," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol. 25, 2006, pp. 126-133.
22. ABAQUS User's Manual, version 6.7-1, Providence, RI: Simulia, 2008.
23. G. Kaye and T. Laby, Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, London, UK: Longman, 1995.
24. P. D. Wilcox, M. J. S. Lowe, and P. Cawley, "The excitation and detection of Lamb waves with planar coil electromagnetic acoustic transducers," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 2371-2383, 2005.
25. R. Ramesham and R. Ghafarian, "Challenges in interconnection and packaging of micromechanical systems (MEMS)," Proc. 50th Electronic Components and Technology Conf., 2000, pp. 666-675.