Title :
Air-coupled ultrasonic evaluation of coated textiles
Author :
Blomme, Erik ; Bulcaen, Dirk ; Declercq, Filip ; Lust, Pieter
Author_Institution :
Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen, Kortrijk, Belgium
Abstract :
The feasibility of on-line monitoring variations in the weight of a coating applied on a textile carrier by means of air-coupled ultrasound is demonstrated experimentally. To that purpose, coating layers of weight varying between 25 and 95 g/m2 were applied on cotton carriers of different weight and the acoustic attenuation of transmitted ultrasound of 0.7 MHz was measured.
Keywords :
inspection; textile industry; ultrasonic materials testing; 0.7 MHz; acoustic attenuation; air-coupled ultrasonic evaluation; coated textiles; coating weight; cotton carriers; on-line monitoring; textile inspection systems; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic transducers; Coatings; Cotton; Monitoring; Textiles; Transmitters; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers; Ultrasonic variables measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7582-3
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.2002.1193509