Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Engineering Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Mechanical Engineering

PDF

University of South Carolina

2018

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE)

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Engineering

Ultrasonic Analysis And Tools For Quantitative Material State Awarness Of Engineered Materials, Subir Patra Oct 2018

Ultrasonic Analysis And Tools For Quantitative Material State Awarness Of Engineered Materials, Subir Patra

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research is to devise new methods and tools to generate real time awareness of the material state of composite and metallic structures through ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) at its very early stage of failure. To device new methodology it is also important to verify the method through virtual experiments and hence computational NDE is getting popular in the recent years. In this thesis, while experimental methodology is developed to understand the material state at its early stage of failure, a new peridynamic based Peri-Elastodynamic (PED) computational method is also developed for …


Peri-Elastodynamic Simulations Of Guided Ultrasonic Lamb Waves In Smart Structure With Surface Mounted Pzt, Subir Patra, Hossain Ahmed, Sourav Banerjee Jan 2018

Peri-Elastodynamic Simulations Of Guided Ultrasonic Lamb Waves In Smart Structure With Surface Mounted Pzt, Subir Patra, Hossain Ahmed, Sourav Banerjee

Faculty Publications

Peridynamic based elastodynamic computation tool named Peri-elastodynamics is proposed herein to simulate the three-dimensional (3D) Lamb wave modes in materials for the first time. Peri-elastodynamics is a nonlocal meshless approach which is a scale-independent generalized technique to visualize the acoustic and ultrasonic waves in plate-like structure, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanodevices for their respective characterization. In this article, the characteristics of the fundamental Lamb wave modes are simulated in a sample plate-like structure. Lamb wave modes are generated using a surface mounted piezoelectric (PZT) transducer which is actuated from the top surface. The proposed generalized Peri-elastodynamics method is not only …