Abstract
This paper presents experimental investigations of the effect of Lamb wave excitation frequency on detection of a given delamination in composite plates. Typical aerospace type composite plates are used and integrated piezoelectric transducers function as both actuator and sensor. Also, a scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) is used for preliminary sensing of structural responses when excited by a single PZT actuator. Results in time domain are quantified by a damage index calculation based on modified L2 error norm. Phase difference calculations based on complex continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) are presented. Experimental results show a significant effect of incident Lamb waves on delamination signature.
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