Experimental Investigation for the Attenuation Coefficient of Ultrasonic Guided Wave

유도초음파의 감쇠계수에 대한 실험적 고찰

  • Lee, Dong-Jin ;
  • Cho, Youn-Ho (Wave and Structural Health Monitoring Lab., School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Joon-Hyun (Wave and Structural Health Monitoring Lab., School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Shin, Dong-Chul (Wave and Structural Health Monitoring Lab., School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 이동진 (부산대학교 기계공학부 대학원) ;
  • 조윤호 (부산대학교 기계공학부) ;
  • 이준현 (부산대학교 기계공학부) ;
  • 신동철 (부산대학교 기계공학부)
  • Received : 2009.09.21
  • Accepted : 2009.10.15
  • Published : 2009.10.30

Abstract

In general, ultrasonic guided wave techniques that used for an evaluation of the internal defect have been applied without considering energy loss. It can be found out that the significant attenuation is observed in the signal of structure with defect by the scattering and absorption. Even in the signal acquired from defect-free structure, this attenuation can be also significant. Therefore, it is very essential to determine the Lamb wave propagation characteristics depending on modes because the dispersibility of Lamb wave can be easily influenced by the attenuation effect with frequency and thickness. For this reason, changing the propagation distance, attenuation coefficient of each Lamb wave mode needs to be investigated by the contact pitch-catch method with PZT(piezoelectric) sensors. In this paper, the experimental attenuation coefficient is measured by choosing the following three different variables; mode, thickness and plate materials. As a result, experimental attenuation coefficient is obtained as the function of variables.

일반적인 산업현장에서 내부결함 평가를 위해 사용되어온 유도초음파기법은 비결함 지역에서는 에너지 감쇠를 고려하지 않고 적용되어 왔다. 결함 지역에서의 신호는 산란과 반사에 의해서 분명한 감쇠가 발생하지만 비결함 지역에서도 작은 감쇠가 발생한다. 또한 분산선도에서 판파(Lamb wave)는 각 두께, 주파수에 의해 분산성이 달라지기에 각 모드에 적합한 감쇠계수를 찾는 것은 중요하다. 이를 위해 접촉식 PZT(piezoelectric)센서를 이용한 pitch-catch 방식으로 거리에 따른 각 모드의 감쇠계수를 구하였다. 본 연구에서는 흔히 쓰이는 알루미늄과 구리판으로, 두께 차이, 모드 차이, 재질 차이에 의한 실험적인 감쇠율을 구하는데 중점을 두었다. 그 결과 각 변수에 따라 감쇠계수는 달라지며, 정량화가 필요하다는 것을 확인하였다.

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