Spectral element modeling of ultrasonic guided wave propagation in optical fibers

Recent advancements in fiber optic methods have enabled their use for guided wave sensing. It opens up new possibilities for Structural Health Monitoring. The aim of this paper is to provide insight for the physics related to guided wave propagation and coupling between the optical fiber and solid s...

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Main Authors: Fiborek, P. (Author), Kudela, P. (Author), Ostachowicz, W. (Author), Soman, R. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
Subjects:
GPU
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520 3 |a Recent advancements in fiber optic methods have enabled their use for guided wave sensing. It opens up new possibilities for Structural Health Monitoring. The aim of this paper is to provide insight for the physics related to guided wave propagation and coupling between the optical fiber and solid structure. For this purpose, a new approach for non-matching interface based on Lagrange multipliers and the time domain spectral element method was developed. A parallelized code has been implemented in order to simulate the guided wave propagation in the structure, its coupling into the optical fiber and the propagation in the fiber in a computationally efficient way. The paper presents four studies showing the efficacy of the modeling approach. The paper first shows the improvement in the computation speed through the use of parallelization and a more efficient implementation. Then the results of the simulation of wave propagation in the fiber are compared with results from previous simulation studies using commercially available software. The third study shows that the spectral element method is able to capture the directional sensitivity of optical fiber based sensors. Lastly, the simulation is used for detection of simulated damage using the spectral element method based simulation. The results indicate that indeed the spectral element implementation is able to recreate the wave coupling phenomena, capture the physics of the system including directional sensitivity and reflections from damage. © 2022 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a Computer software 
650 0 4 |a Damage detection 
650 0 4 |a Directional sensitivity 
650 0 4 |a Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors 
650 0 4 |a Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors 
650 0 4 |a Fiber Bragg gratings 
650 0 4 |a GPU 
650 0 4 |a Graphics processing unit 
650 0 4 |a Guide wave 
650 0 4 |a Guide waves (GW) 
650 0 4 |a Guided electromagnetic wave propagation 
650 0 4 |a Guided-wave propagation 
650 0 4 |a Lagrange multipliers 
650 0 4 |a Parallel implementation 
650 0 4 |a Parallel implementations 
650 0 4 |a Spectral element method 
650 0 4 |a Spectral element method (SEM) 
650 0 4 |a Spectral element model 
650 0 4 |a Structural health monitoring 
650 0 4 |a Time domain analysis 
650 0 4 |a Ultrasonic applications 
650 0 4 |a Ultrasonic guided wave 
650 0 4 |a Wave coupling 
700 1 |a Fiborek, P.  |e author 
700 1 |a Kudela, P.  |e author 
700 1 |a Ostachowicz, W.  |e author 
700 1 |a Soman, R.  |e author 
773 |t Ultrasonics