Abstract
This article presents research about the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in ultrasonically welded thermoplastic composite joints. The goal of the study was to understand the effect of weld manufacturing defects on guided wave transmission across the joint. Triangular energy-directors integrated into the lower composite adherends enabled the production of defective joints in a controlled manner. The produced defect types were unwelded areas and adherend fibre bundle distortion. The reference condition corresponded to the fully welded stage which showed the highest single-lap shear strength. It was possible to detect adherend fibre bundle distortion through the increase in the negative shift of the signal characteristic frequency. Evidence of the presence of unwelded areas was found in the increase of Time-of-Flight of the maximum amplitude Lamb wave group. The sensitivity of the diagnostic parameters was found to be dependent on the ultrasonic guided wave excitation frequency.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102126 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | NDT and E International |
Volume | 107 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- Manufacturing defects
- Structural health monitoring
- Thermoplastic composite
- Ultrasonic guided waves
- Ultrasonic welding
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Supporting data for Guided wave and mechanical testing of defective thermoplastic composite ultrasonic welds
Viegas Ochôa de Carvalho, P. A. (Creator), Benedictus, R. (Creator), Fernandez Villegas, I. (Creator) & Groves, R. M. (Creator), TU Delft - 4TU.ResearchData, 25 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.4121/UUID:190AC321-AD31-456C-919E-564F7E6333EF
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