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In this paper, a full-field ultrasonic guided wave method is proposed to inspect a composite sandwich specimen made for an aircraft engine nacelle. The back skin/core interface of the specimen is built with two fabricated disbond defects (diameters of 12.7 mm and 25.4 mm) by removing areas of the adhesive used to bond the back skin to the core. A laser ultrasonic interrogation system (LUIS) incorporated with a disbond detection algorithm is developed. The system consists of a 1-kHz laser ultrasonic scanning system and a single fixed ultrasonic sensor to interrogate ultrasonic guided waves in the sandwich specimen. The interest area of 400 mm × 400 mm is scanned at a 0.5 mm scan interval. The corresponding full-field ultrasonic data is obtained and generated in the three-dimensional (3-D) space-time domain. Then, the 3-D full-field ultrasonic data is Fourier transformed and the ultrasonic frequency spectra are analyzed to determine the dominant frequency that is sensitive to the disbond defects. Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) is implemented as a single-frequency bandpass filter to filter the full-field ultrasonic data in the 3-D space-time domain at the selected dominant frequency. The LUIS has shown the ability to detect the disbond with diameters of 11 mm and 23 mm which match to the pre-determined disbond sizes well. For future research, a robust signal processing algorithm and a model-based matched filter will be investigated to make the detection process autonomous and improve detectability
See Yenn Chong,Jared J. Victor, andMichael D. Todd
"Full-field ultrasonic inspection for a composite sandwich plate skin-core debonding detection using laser-based ultrasonics", Proc. SPIE 10170, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2017, 1017007 (5 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2258574
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See Yenn Chong, Jared J. Victor, Michael D. Todd, "Full-field ultrasonic inspection for a composite sandwich plate skin-core debonding detection using laser-based ultrasonics," Proc. SPIE 10170, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2017, 1017007 (5 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2258574