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A method for optimizing excitation of electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave

  • Zhai Guofu*
  • , Jiang Tao
  • , Kang Lei
  • , Wang Shujuan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Lamb wave has many applications in non-destructive testing as its advantages of the capability for long-range testing from a single location. Electromagnetic ultrasonic technique also has many advantages, such as being free of couplant and preconditioning. So, electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave possesses great superiority in inspection. However, Lamb wave's characteristic of multi-modes and dispersion, like other guided waves, is a significant problem for practical applications. In order to obtain clear signals that can be reliably interpreted, a method for optimizing excitation of electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave has been studied. Based on the fundamental characteristic equation of Lamb wave, the exciting equation has been deduced and the exciting curves have been plotted to instruct the design of electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) for choosing reasonable operating points in the curves. The optimization method verified by experiments can effectively remove the effect of multi-modes and dispersive and the zero- order modes are of great engineering value in real applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2010 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2010
Pages104-108
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2010 - Taichung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 15 Jun 201017 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2010 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2010

Conference

Conference5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2010
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaichung
Period15/06/1017/06/10

Keywords

  • EMAT
  • Electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb wave
  • Exciting equation
  • Operating point

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