Development of a nonlinear ultrasonic NDE technique for detection of kissing bonds in composites

Jonathan Alston; Anthony Croxford; Jack Potter; Philippe Blanloeuil

doi:10.1117/12.2259799

19 April 2017 Development of a nonlinear ultrasonic NDE technique for detection of kissing bonds in composites

Jonathan Alston, Anthony Croxford, Jack Potter, Philippe Blanloeuil

Proceedings Volume 10169, Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, and Civil Infrastructure 2017; 101691J (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259799
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2017, Portland, Oregon, United States

Abstract

The development of low-cost bonded assembly of composite aerospace structures ideally requires an NDE method to detect the presence of poor quality, weak bonds or kissing bonds. Such interfaces can introduce nonlinearity as a result of contact nonlinearity where an ultrasonic wave is distorted when it interacts with the interface. In general, the nonlinear elastic behaviour of these interfaces will generate harmonics but they can be lost among the harmonics generated by other nonlinearities present in the experimental system. The technique developed in this research is a non-collinear method; this involves the interaction of two ultrasonic beams, and it allows the removal of virtually all system nonlinearity except for that produced in the region where the two beams overlap. The frequencies of the two beams and the angle between are varied during the experiment. By measuring the nonlinear mixing response as these two parameters are swept through a ‘fingerprint’ of the nonlinear properties in the interaction region can be obtained. This fingerprint has been shown to contain information about the bulk material and the interface status. Work is ongoing to understand which features in the fingerprints reliably correlate with particular material or interface properties. To build this understanding a greatly simplified kissing bond, a compression loaded aluminium-aluminium interface, has been tested. Modelling of the nonlinear behaviour of the aluminium interface has also been conducted.

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Jonathan Alston, Anthony Croxford, Jack Potter, and Philippe Blanloeuil "Development of a nonlinear ultrasonic NDE technique for detection of kissing bonds in composites", Proc. SPIE 10169, Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, and Civil Infrastructure 2017, 101691J (19 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259799

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