Numerical investigation of nonlinear interactions between multimodal guided waves and delamination in composite structures

Yanfeng Shen

doi:10.1117/12.2259762

5 April 2017 Numerical investigation of nonlinear interactions between multimodal guided waves and delamination in composite structures

Yanfeng Shen

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Proceedings Volume 10170, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2017; 101701Z (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259762
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2017, Portland, Oregon, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the nonlinear interactions between multimodal guided waves and delamination in composite structures. The elastodynamic wave equations for anisotropic composite laminate were formulated using an explicit Local Interaction Simulation Approach (LISA). The contact dynamics was modeled using the penalty method. In order to capture the stick-slip contact motion, a Coulomb friction law was integrated into the computation procedure. A random gap function was defined for the contact pairs to model distributed initial closures or openings to approximate the nature of rough delamination interfaces. The LISA procedure was coded using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), which enables the highly parallelized computation on powerful graphic cards. Several guided wave modes centered at various frequencies were investigated as the incident wave. Numerical case studies of different delamination locations across the thickness were carried out. The capability of different wave modes at various frequencies to trigger the Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity (CAN) was studied. The correlation between the delamination size and the signal nonlinearity was also investigated. Furthermore, the influence from the roughness of the delamination interfaces was discussed as well. The numerical investigation shows that the nonlinear features of wave delamination interactions can enhance the evaluation capability of guided wave Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system. This paper finishes with discussion, concluding remarks, and suggestions for future work.

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Yanfeng Shen "Numerical investigation of nonlinear interactions between multimodal guided waves and delamination in composite structures", Proc. SPIE 10170, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2017, 101701Z (5 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259762

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