Application of Reciprocity for Facilitation of Wave Field Visualization and Defect Detection

ABSTRACTThe motion visualization in a structural component was studied for defect detection. Elastic motions were excited by hammer impacts at multiple points and received by an accelerometer at a fixed point. Reciprocity in elastodynamics is only valid under certain conditions. Its validity under given experimental conditions was derived from the elastodynamic reciprocity theorem. Based on this, the dynamic motion of the structural component was obtained for fixed-point excitation from measurements performed using multipoint excitations. In the visualized eigenmodes, significant additional deformation was observed at the wall thinning inserted as an artificial defect. To prevent the dependence of defect detection on its position within the mode shape, another approach was proposed based on the extraction of guided wave modes immediately after impact excitation. It is shown that this maximum intensity projection method works well in detecting defects.KEYWORDS: Elastodynamic reciprocityvisualization of damagemultisite excitationselective guided wave mode AcknowledgmentsWe gratefully acknowledge the funding support by JSPS.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [15K01226] and the Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan [S20084].