Ultrasonic interference wave

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G. A. Budenkov, Yu. V. Volegov, V. A. Pepelyaev, and V. I. Redko, The possibility of testing the strength of adhesive joints by means of ultrasonic interference waves. Ultrasonics 1 194 (1977). 

This study detects the defect of the void and the exfoliation in the solid phase diffusion bonding interface of ductile cast iron and stainless steel with a nickel insert metal using ultrasonic testing method, and examine the influence of mutual interference of the reflectional wave both the defect and the interface. 

Therefore, the ultrasonic testing method in the diffusion joint of the dissimiler materials shall considered the influence of the interference with the reflective wave. 

Measurement cell. The measurement cell should be made of a material which does not react with the sample. The cell walls should be of an appropriate thickness and acoustic impedance so that any reverberations in the cell walls do not interfere with the signal from the sample. The internal walls of the cell should be smooth and parallel so that scattering or oblique reflection of the ultrasonic wave do not cause errors in the velocity and attenuation measurements. Ultrasonic measurements are particularly sensitive to temperature and so it is important to either use a thermostated measurement cell, or to measure the temperature and make a suitable correction. 

Side wall reflections. If the angle of diffraction of an ultrasonic wave leaving a transducer is large enough, reflections may occur from the side walls of the cell. This reflected ultrasound will interact with the ultrasound which has traveled directly through the sample and affects both velocity and attenuation measurements. It is therefore important to calculate the diffraction angle of the transducer and ensure that the side walls are far enough apart so that side-wall reflections do not interfere with the measurements [1]. 

Laser interferometry employs the principle of optical interference to recover the sought acoustic information from the light reflected from, or scattered by, a surface under ultrasonic vibration. Its non-contact nature makes laser probing a preferred alternative to contact methods in studying surface waves, their diffraction and damping by intrinsically rough surfaces. 

Fig. 1 illustrates the two mechanisms proposed for the processes of liquid disintegration and aerosol generation within ultrasonic nebulizers. The capillary-wave theory relates to the production of capillary waves in the bulk liquid. These waves constructively interfere to form peaks and a central geyser. When the amplitude of the applied energy is sufficiently high, the crests of the capillary waves break off, and droplets are formed. The rate of generation of capillary waves is dependent on both the physicochemical properties of the nebulized fluid and the intensity of the ultrasonic vibration. Mercer used Eq. (1) to calculate the threshold amplitude for the generation of capillary waves ... 

Oblique ultrasonic waves sent to a composite at frequencies that excite plate wave modes induce the leaky lamb wave phenomenon. When the leaky Lamb wave is generated, the specular reflection is distorted. When the specular reflection and the leaky Lamb wave interfere, a phase cancellation occurs, and two components are generated with a phase between them. Because each type of defect has a unique response, this technique can be used to determine material eleastic constants and to estimate the volume content of resin as well as porosity content. Detection of transverse cracking and delamination in a 24-layer unidirectional graphite-epoxy laminate has also been reported [140], and oblique incidenee back-scattering techniques give accurate fiber orientation of the first composite layers [15],... 

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors detect changes in the properties of acoustic waves as they travel at ultrasonic frequencies in piezoelectric materials. The basic transduction mechanism involves interaction of these waves with surface-attached matter. Multiple sensor arrays with multiple coatings and pattern recognition algorithms provide the means to identify agent classes and reject interferant responses that could cause false alarms. Acoustic wave sensors are used in mobile detectors to detect nerve and blister agents. 

A material absorbs ultrasonic energy at a different rate for different frequencies. A constructive use of this phenomenon is ultrasonic spectroscopy, covered in the next section. Another consequence is that a single spike pulsed into the sample for time-of-flight measurements is distorted during transmission. This makes it difficult to time the interval between echoes precisely. A continuous sine wave is a single frequency, but it interferes with itself upon reflection. A compromise is found in a tone burst, a sine wave applied for a short time. 

For interference to be avoided, the duration of the tone burst must be less than the echo transit time. This means that flaws within a distance equal to one half of the tone burst duration of the surface cannot be resolved. In some applications (in torsion and flexure) the surface stresses are greater than the interior stresses, so surface flaws are of interest. Near-surface defects can be detected using a surface ultrasonic wave. One geometry for the generation of surface ultrasonic waves is shown in Figure 13.1. Surface waves reflect from surface-exposed defects in exactly... 

The interference fit specimens were placed on a vee block within the scanning tank and the transducer height set to scan the sleeve/shaft interface. The ultrasonic wave is refracted at the water/steel interface. The height of the transducer required to focus the wave on the interference interface was calculated using Snell s law of refraction (see Figure 5). 

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