Surface Wave Utility in Composite Material Characterization |
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| Authors: | Joseph L Rose Aleksander Pilarski Yimei Huang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department , Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA;2. Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department , Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA;3. Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Abstract A surface wave velocity measurement technique is used to supply supporting measurements in the computation of elastic constants for practical nondestructive evaluation of composite materials. Theoretical modeling work is carried out to illustrate the surface wave velocity changes as a function of angle with respect to the axes along the fibers of a unidirectional graphite epoxy composite material for a variety of different problems, including porosity (PC) changes, fiber volume fraction (FF) changes, and delamination. Experiments are conducted on two unidirectional reinforced composites and a (0–90)s cross ply graphite epoxy laminate to illustrate the surface wave velocity measurements and the inverse computation procedure for evaluation of the stiffness coefficients. Variations of the feature values in the stiffness matrix are also discussed for inhomogeneities, delaminations through cracking, and large defects. |
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