Ultrasonics. 2016 Jan;64:97-105. doi: 10.1016/j.ultras.2015.08.003. Epub 2015 Aug 18.
Ultrasonics
C Ramadas
PMID: 26341850 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2015.08.003
This paper focuses on transmission characteristics of fundamental symmetric Lamb mode (So) at the junction of a main waveguide and sub-waveguides in composite laminates. Numerical simulations on transmission of So from the main to sub-waveguide revealed that transmission factors of the modes depend on stacking sequence of plies in the waveguides. Experiments were carried out to verify the observations made in numerical simulations. This work gives an insight on the transmission characteristics of So mode while it propagates from a healthy to a delaminated region in a composite laminate.
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Keywords: Air-coupled probes; Lamb wave; Stacking sequence; Transmission factor