Measurement and Characterisation of a Diffuse Acoustic Field Using a Phased Array

Abstract A diffuse acoustic field has been increasingly used to infer temporal changes in the structures, such as early dislocations and microcracking. This study explores three different techniques to characterise acoustic field by using a single ultrasonic phased array. The first two techniques ar...

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Autor principal: Jingwei Cheng
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Publicado: SpringerOpen 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/22f5212f008c4a3b83e9fffe5af6160c
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Sumario:Abstract A diffuse acoustic field has been increasingly used to infer temporal changes in the structures, such as early dislocations and microcracking. This study explores three different techniques to characterise acoustic field by using a single ultrasonic phased array. The first two techniques are proposed to measure spatial uniformity of wave field by examining differences in the integral of energy and the maximum energy respectively at multiple inspection locations. The third one is developed to evaluate the degree of phase coherence between propagating waves transmitted sequentially by two neighbouring array elements. The efficacy of these techniques are investigated by examining their metrics on simulations and well-known samples. The results suggest that two selected metrics can be used to quantitatively estimate the diffuse field start time as well as the field size by comparing their value with the idealised diffuse state (15% for the energy integral metric, η area and 1 for the phase coherence metric, η phase ) and identifying the convergence start point.