Ultrasonic guided wave propagation and disbond identification in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers

Sikdar, Shirsendu, Banerjee, Sauvik and Ashish, G. (2016) Ultrasonic guided wave propagation and disbond identification in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 27 (13). pp. 1767-1779. ISSN 1045-389X

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Abstract

A coordinated theoretical, numerical, and experimental study is carried out in an effort to understand ultrasonic guided wave propagation and interaction with disbond, as well as, to identify disbond in a honeycomb composite sandwich structure using surface-bonded piezoelectric wafer transducers. In contrast to most of the work done previously, a fast and efficient two-dimensional semi-analytical model based on global matrix method is used to study dispersion characteristics as well as transient response of the healthy honeycomb composite sandwich structure subjected to relatively high-frequency piezoelectric wafer transducer excitations. Numerical simulations are then conducted using commercially available finite element package, ABAQUS, in order to explore guided wave propagation mechanisms due to the presence of disbond. Numerical simulations are further broadened to investigate the effect of disbond size on the amplitudes and group velocities of propagating guided wave modes. A good agreement is observed between the theoretical, numerical and experimental results in all cases studied. It is noticed that the presence of disbond, in particular, amplifies the first anti-symmetric (A0) mode and increases its group velocity. Finally, based on these modal behaviors, the location of an unknown disbond, within the piezoelectric wafer transducer array is experimentally determined by applying a probability-based damage detection algorithm.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © SAGE Publications.
Uncontrolled Keywords: disbond,dispersion,honeycomb composite sandwich structure,piezoelectric wafer transducers,ultrasonic guided wave,materials science(all),mechanical engineering ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Engineering
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2021 02:17
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023 22:37
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81681
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X15610906

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