Recent advancement on the NDE of structures by means of highly nonlinear solitary waves

Xianglei Ni; Piervincenzo Rizzo

doi:10.1117/12.914802

3 April 2012 Recent advancement on the NDE of structures by means of highly nonlinear solitary waves

Xianglei Ni, Piervincenzo Rizzo

Proceedings Volume 8345, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2012; 83450E (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914802
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the use of highly nonlinear solitary waves (HNSWs) for the nondestructive evaluation of aluminum lap-joints bonded by high-strength two ton epoxy. A HNSW transducer was used to generate and detect the propagation of incident and reflected HNSWs. The time of flight and amplitude ratio of the reflected HNSW were adopted to interpret the bonding condition of aluminum lap-joints. Two experiments are reported. In the first experiment we monitor the curing process of a two-ton epoxy at aluminum lap-joints. In the second experiment we detect different bonding condition of aluminum lap-joints such as good bonding, fair bonding (with undesired resin to hardener ratios), slide bonding, and no bonding, after the epoxy was fully cured. The results of experiments show the proposed method is able to detect different bonding conditions of aluminum lap-joints.

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Xianglei Ni and Piervincenzo Rizzo "Recent advancement on the NDE of structures by means of highly nonlinear solitary waves", Proc. SPIE 8345, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2012, 83450E (3 April 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914802

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