An improved technique for modal decomposition of a double-mode Lamb wave signal

K. Luangvilai; L. J. Jacobs; Jianmin Qu

doi:10.1117/12.658801

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20 March 2006 An improved technique for modal decomposition of a double-mode Lamb wave signal

K. Luangvilai, L. J. Jacobs, Jianmin Qu

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Proceedings Volume 6176, Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aerospace Materials, Composites, and Civil Infrastructure V; 61760L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658801
Event: Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2006, San Diego, CA, United States

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This study develops a technique to decompose a multi-mode, transient Lamb wave signal into individual Lamb mode signals. The previously-proposed technique (presented at the SPIE NDE conference 2005) showed an encouraging efficiency for numerically-simulated signals, but suffered when evaluating real experimental signals due to its high sensitivity to noises and experimental errors. The improved technique starts with the same assumption of known Lamb wave propagation characteristics (known propagation dispersion curves). However, a highly-strict signal model governing the development of the previously-proposed technique is relaxed to tolerate unavoidable presence noises and errors, and the problem is re-formulated. For actual experimental signals, some additional signal processing techniques are introduced in signal pre-conditioning. The entire implementation of the improved technique is first tested with simulated signals, and then applied to actual experimental signals. The final results with real experimental are presented and discussed.

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K. Luangvilai, L. J. Jacobs, and Jianmin Qu "An improved technique for modal decomposition of a double-mode Lamb wave signal", Proc. SPIE 6176, Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aerospace Materials, Composites, and Civil Infrastructure V, 61760L (20 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.658801

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