Abstract
This paper investigates how Lamb waves respond to the presence of material degradation in a plate-like structure using a series of finite element analyses. To facilitate this study, the propagation of these guided waves was interpreted with the dispersion characteristics and displacement profiles were analysed in the frequency and wave number domain. The results show that the material degradation simulated by a local stiffness reduction which leads to changes in the dispersive characteristic of the propagating waves has made the Lamb waves technique become an effective tool to assess the material degradation.
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