Composites Science and Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 5-9.

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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCE LOCALIZATION FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE

QI Tian-tian1, CHEN Yao1, HE Cai-hou1,2, LI Qiu-feng1*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of NDT (Nanchang Hangkong University), Ministry of Education, Nanchang 330063, China;
    2. Yingtan Branch of Special Equipment Inspection and Research Institute of Jiangxi, Yingtan 335000, China
  • Received:2019-09-10 Online:2020-06-28 Published:2020-06-28

Abstract: Acoustic Emission (AE) testing technology can realize the dynamic monitoring of materials, and it also has certain limitations. Because the AE signal is more complicated in the anisotropic carbon fiber composite material, the AE source damage location has a large deviation. A time reversal focusing and enhancing algorithm is used for the AE positioning requirements of carbon fiber composite plate. Firstly, according to the basic theory of time reversal, the signal enhancement processing equation is derived, and the focus time of the AE source can be calculated, furthermore enhancing the focus amplitude of the AE source signal field and the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is improved. Then the wave image is reconstructed in the detection area, and the AE source is accurately positioned by the focus signal. Finally, the method has been verified through experiment, and the results show that the localization algorithm can locate the AE source of complex anisotropic materials, and the positioning accuracy is greatly improved compared with the conventional instrument positioning method.

Key words: acoustic emission (AE) testing, carbon fiber composite, source location, focusing time, signal noise ratio (SNR)

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