Determining longitudinal and transverse elastic wave attenuation from zero-group-velocity Lamb waves in a pair of
Martin Ryzy1, István Veres2, Thomas Berer2
1Research Center for Non-Destructive Testing GmbH, Linz, Austria.
Abstract:
A method for the determination of longitudinal and transverse bulk acoustic wave attenuation from measurements of the decay-rate of two independent zero-group-velocity resonances in a couple of matched plates is presented. A linear relation is derived, which links the bulk-wave attenuation coefficients to the decay-rate of plate-resonances. The relation is used to determine the acoustic loss of tungsten at GHz frequencies from noncontact laser-ultrasonic measurements in plates with thicknesses of about 1 µm. The longitudinal and transverse attenuation was found to amount to 1918 m-1 and 7828 m-1 at 2.16 GHz and 3265 m-1 and 12181 m-1 at 2.46 GHz. The presented approach is validated with calculated responses to a thermoelastic source, and the accuracy of the obtained attenuation values is estimated to be in the range of 10%.
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