Generation and detection of lamb waves for the characterization of plastic deformation

In this thesis ultrasonic Lamb wave measurements are performed to detect material nonlinearity in aluminum sheets. When a Lamb wave propagates, higher harmonic wave fields are generated and under certain conditions the second harmonic is cumulative. When these conditions hold the Lamb waves are serv...

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Main Author: Pruell, Christoph
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26479