Abstract
This paper proposes an indirect method to measure absolute acoustic nonlinearity parameters using surface acoustic waves by employing a fully non-contact laser-ultrasonic technique. For this purpose, the relationship between the ratio of relative acoustic nonlinearity parameters measured using the proposed method in two different materials (a test material and a reference material) and the ratio of absolute acoustic nonlinearity parameters in these two materials was theoretically derived. Using this relationship, when the absolute nonlinearity parameter of the reference material is known, the absolute nonlinearity parameter of the test material can be obtained using the ratio of the measured relative parameters of the two materials. For experimental verification, aluminum and copper specimens were used as reference and test materials, respectively. The relative acoustic nonlinearity parameters of the two materials were measured from surface waves generated and received using lasers. Additionally, the absolute parameters of aluminum and copper were measured using a conventional direct measurement method, with the former being used as a reference value and the latter being used for comparison with the estimation result. The absolute parameter of copper estimated by the proposed method showed good agreement with the directly measured result.
Highlights
The acoustic nonlinearity parameter (β) is widely used for diagnosing and inferring material damage and it can be measured using displacement amplitudes of fundamental and second-order harmonics waves [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]
The results verify that the proposed indirect method using surface acoustic waves with a fully non-contact laser-ultrasonic technique is effective for estimating acoustic nonlinearity parameters
This paper proposed a novel indirect method to measure the absolute acoustic nonlinearity parameter using surface acoustic waves with a fully non-contact laser-ultrasonic technique
Summary
The acoustic nonlinearity parameter (β) is widely used for diagnosing and inferring material damage and it can be measured using displacement amplitudes of fundamental and second-order harmonics waves [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. This paper proposes a fully non-contact surface acoustic wave technique using lasers for the indirect measurement of the acoustic nonlinearity parameter. This technique allows the application of the indirect method even when the test and reference materials are dissimilar. In the proposed technique the initial second harmonic frequency can be suppressed by adjusting the duty ratio of the line-arrayed slit mask [17] This characteristic is an advantage that may be difficult to obtain in the case of using other non-contact excitations, for example EMAT (electromagnetic acoustic transducer) or ACT (air-coupled transducer). The absolute parameters of aluminum and copper were measured by longitudinal wave using a conventional direct measurement method, with the former being used as a reference value and the latter being used for comparison with the estimation result
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