A new method for locating acoustic emission source

In the research of locating sudden acoustic emission source the transducers are generally arranged in special geometries in order to derive the equations which give acoustic emission source location, and to make the calculations simple. In this paper a new method for locating plane acoustic emission source is proposed by setting the transducers in a straight line. This method makes the arrangement of transducers simple, the acoustic emission source location formulas concise, and the calculations easy. This method can also be applied to the problems of other source location, especially suitable for the plane source location problems in which the transducers cannot be arranged on a plane for some reasons.