Transient ultrasonic waves in a viscoelastic plate: Applications to materials characterization

Richard L. Weaver, Wolfgang Sachse, Lin Niu

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Abstract

The ray arrival behavior of an ultrasonic signal propagated through a thick viscoelastic plate is analyzed to determine the material dispersion and attenuation. Signal processing algorithms are developed and demonstrated with synthetic and real signals obtained in elastic and viscoelastic materials. Recovery of material properties is found to proceed reliably except for the case of attenuation recovery from real signals, where there were difficulties related to the use of a finite aperture receiver.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2262-2267
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume85
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1989
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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