A new ultrasonic guided wave signal processing method for UNDE of laminated composite material

Author

Xu, Hanhui ; Xu, Chunguang ; Zhou, Shiyuan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 June 2010

Firstpage

2542

Lastpage

2545

Abstract

A new ultrasonic guided wave signal processing method for ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (UNDE) of laminated composite material has been developed in this paper. The key part of the method is the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and short-time Fourier transform (STFT) with which the characteristic parameter can be introduced to represent the size of flaw in laminated composite plate. EMD method is widely recognized to be efficient to nonlinear and non-stationary signals. STFT provides more accurate energy-frequency-time distribution for intrinsic mode functions of ultrasonic guided wave signal compared with Hilbert transform and instantaneous frequency algorithm of Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT). The dispersive and anisotropic nature of laminated composite will be studied theoretically. In the experimental study, ten plates with different size of disbonded defect. In comparison with the results from the theory and experiment, it is confirmed that the new method is efficient for signal processing propagation of for UNDE of laminated composite plate.

Keywords

Fourier transforms; Hilbert transforms; laminates; plates (structures); signal processing; ultrasonic materials testing; ultrasonic propagation; EMD method; HHT; Hilbert transform; Hilbert-Huang Transform; UNDE; disbonded defect; empirical mode decomposition; energy-frequency-time distribution; instantaneous frequency algorithm; intrinsic mode functions; laminated composite material; laminated composite plate; nonlinear signals; nonstationary signals; short-time Fourier transform; signal processing propagation; ultrasonic guided wave signal processing method; ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Composite materials; Elasticity; Fourier transforms; Frequency; Matrix decomposition; Mechanical engineering; Optical fiber theory; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; empirical mode decomposition; laminated composite plate; ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7737-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MACE.2010.5536254

Filename

5536254