Abstract
Abstract Aging degradation is the main form of failure of rubber in service, leading to a decline in its physical and mechanical properties. This paper presents an efficient method for assessing the aging degradation of rubber using the quasi-static component (QSC) of ultrasonic longitudinal waves induced by acoustic radiation. The experiments quantitatively observe the response of the QSC pulse to different levels of ageing degradation. A pulse-echo ultrasonic transducer is employed to simultaneously capture the primary longitudinal wave (PLW) and QSC echoes, enabling the determination of the acoustic nonlinearity parameter of QSC with a single transducer excitation. The results suggest that, in comparison to traditional linear ultrasonic techniques based on attenuation coefficient and wave velocity measurements, the relative acoustic nonlinear parameter of QSC proves to be more sensitive to aging degradation in rubber. Particularly, the amplitude of the QSC pulse undergoes a significant change with increasing aging degradation, even when the PLW tone burst is completely attenuated. These findings confirm the effectiveness of QSC as a method for evaluating aging degradation in highly attenuative materials.
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