Abstract
Lamb waves have become increasingly popular in the field of aerospace vehicle non-destructive testing and evaluation as well as structural health monitoring. These guided waves possess the ability to travel long distances and exhibit a notable inclination to interact with existing damage. This work has numerically explored for the first time the use of a passive co-linear phased array to localize emission sources over a wide range of variables. Three localization methods are explored, namely, reverse beamforming, wavefront curvature ranging, and hyperbolic lateration in a direction comparison without modeling transducers. It was shown that both reverse beamforming and wavefront curvature ranging could localize an emission with <1% error in both range and bearing, while hyperbolic lateration was significantly worse. A relationship between bearing error and bearing was demonstrated, presenting the ability to develop new methods with correction factors that can localize emissions with even greater accuracy.
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