Air-coupled acoustic imaging with zero-group-velocity Lamb modes

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2003-09-29
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Holland, Stephen
Chimenti, Dale
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A Lamb wave resonance has been found that allows unusually efficient transmission of airborne sound waves through plates. This occurs at the zero-group-velocity point at the frequency minimum of the first-order symmetric (S1 ) Lamb mode. At this frequency, plane waves with a range of incident angles can couple between the air and the Lamb mode in the solid plate, dominating the spectrum of transmitted focused sound beams by 10 dB or more. We use this frequency for C-scan imaging, and demonstrate the detection of both a 3.2-mm-diameter buried flaw and a subwavelength thickness changes of .005l ~1%!.

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This article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 83, no. 13 (2003): 2704–2706, doi:10.1063/1.1613046.

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