Interference of Lamb Waves at Overlap Joints

  • HAN Xiaohui ,
  • LI Yang ,
  • ZHOU Qingxiang ,
  • LIU Fang ,
  • CAI Guixi
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  • 1. CRRC Qingdao Sifang CO., Ltd., Qingdao 266111;
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001;
    3. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016

Online published: 2017-05-15

Abstract

The interference phenomenon of Lamb waves at overlap joints are researched by the numerical simulation and theoretical method. The numerical method is used to simulate the interference occurred when the Lamb waves S0 and A0 mode (at an exciting frequency of 500 kHz) propagate through welds on a 2 mm-thick stainless steel plate. It is found that the waves reflected from the end edge will interfere with the waves reflected from the front edge. The interference was lead to the reflection coefficients change with the weld width periodically. In addition,Lamb waves with different frequency have different interference on the same overlap joint. The interference is observed by simulation. The Lamb waves occur increase interference when the phase difference between two waves is odd times of half wavelength. Moreover,the Lamb waves occur destructive interference when the phase difference between two waves is even times of half wavelength.

Cite this article

HAN Xiaohui , LI Yang , ZHOU Qingxiang , LIU Fang , CAI Guixi . Interference of Lamb Waves at Overlap Joints[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2017 , 53(10) : 87 -93 . DOI: 10.3901/JME.2017.10.087

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