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- Title
An Efficient Time Reversal Method for Lamb Wave-Based Baseline-Free Damage Detection in Composite Laminates.
- Authors
Huang, Liping; Du, Junmin; Chen, Feiyu; Zeng, Liang
- Abstract
Featured Application: This paper may develop an efficient and effective damage detection technique to ensure the safety of composite structures. Time reversal (TR) concept is widely used for Lamb wave-based damage detection. However, the time reversal process (TRP) faces the challenge that it requires two actuating-sensing steps and requires the extraction of re-emitted and reconstructed waveforms. In this study, the effects of the two extracted components on the performance of TRP are studied experimentally. The results show that the two time intervals, in which the waveforms are extracted, have great influence on the accuracy of damage detection of the time reversal method (TRM). What is more, it requires a large number of experiments to determine these two time intervals. Therefore, this paper proposed an efficient time reversal method (ETRM). Firstly, a broadband excitation is applied to obtain response at a wide range of frequencies, and ridge reconstruction based on inverse short-time Fourier transform is applied to extract desired mode components from the broadband response. Subsequently, deconvolution is used to extract narrow-band reconstructed signal. In this method, the reconstructed signal can be easily obtained without determining the two time intervals. Besides, the reconstructed signals related to a series of different excitations could be obtained through only one actuating-sensing step. Finally, the effectiveness of the ETRM for damage detection in composite laminates is verified through experiments.
- Subjects
LAMB waves; TIME reversal; LAMINATED materials
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app9010011