| Abstract: | A model of a compressional ultrasonic transducer is implemented into a T-matrix method-based solution to a crack scattering problem. The probe can act both as a receiver and as a transmitter, and it is modeled as an acoustic piston-like source. A previous solution by the null field approach is applied and is here used to model a crack that is partly closed due to an external background pressure. Numerical calculations of the signal response when the crack is penny-shaped are performed and compared with results from a program based on the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, and the agreement is generally found to be very good. |
