Analysis of acousto-ultrasonic characteristics for an isotropic thin plate

For the purpose of understanding and improving the acousto-ultrasonic (AU) technique, the AU characteristics for an isotropic plate is investigated in this paper. Unlike the previous wave tracing method, a spectral analysis approach is presented, which can take into account the effects of the transducers’ characteristics. Using this approach and introducing the point source/point receiver assumption, the input–output frequency spectrum relationships for the cases of one transmitter/one receiver and one transmitter/multiple receivers coupled to an isotropic thin plate are expressed in explicit forms. Based on this, a wave scattering parameter to bridge two different sensing types of the receiving transducers is presented, and a new type stress wave parameter for the AU technique is developed, which eliminates the influence of the complex mechanic-electron transduction characteristics of the receivers and also separates to some extent the effects of some other external factors such as transducer masses and ...