3-D Imaging Based Ultrasonic Phased Array Theory for Composite Structure Damage Identification

Abstract

The Lamb wave phased array theory is utilized to analysis the damage scattered signals to identify the structure defect. The damage scattered signals are gotten by comparing the health signals with the damage signals. Phased array theory based structural health monitoring can scan the structure in a certain range of 0°~180° by controlling the time delay of the excitation signals and the response signals. The processed signals in monitoring direction is shown on 3-D imaging to express the damage location in the structure. The method is verified by the experiment on the composite structure and the result shows that the Lamb wave phased array method can detect the damage in the composite structure and the 3-D image clearly displays the structure damage location.