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Conrad,
M., Sayir, M.
Composite Ceramic-metal Plates Tested with Flexural
Waves and Holography
Experimental Methods, Vol. 41, No. 4
Abstract
A method to determine weak or defective bonding areas within the brazed
adjoining contact surfaces of composite ceramic-metal plates is proposed. The
plates include voids, as well as hairline cracks in the ceramic layer, caused by
the high-temperature brazing process. To detect these flaws, transient flexural
waves are generated and transmitted through the plate by means of an attached
piezoelectric transducer. These pulses are a narrow band signal generated in the
time domain. The characteristic wavelengths corresponding to the narrow
frequency spectrum may be larger than the size of the flaw. Dynamic holographic
interferometry using a double-pulsed twin-cavity Nd:YAG laser, comprising two
independent reference beams, was used to measure the response. The experimental
interferograms (phase maps) coincide rather precisely with analytic results
derived from Mindlin's plate equations (including effects of shear and rotary
inertia).
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