Visualization of the interaction of guided acoustic waves with water by light refractive vibrometry

Abstract

Guided acoustic waves, such as Lamb waves, are widely applied for material characterization, sensing of liquids and the generation of streaming in liquids. There are numerical simulation tools for the prediction of their propagation near a solid-liquid boundary but a demand for complementary measurement techniques for the validation of the simulation results remains. In this contribution it is demonstrated that light refractive vibrometry is a suitable approach for the visualization of the interaction of guided acoustic waves with liquids. For this purpose Lamb waves were excited by piezoelectric transducers on copper plates partially immersed in water. There the fundamental symmetric and antisymmetric modes are converted to compressional waves and quasi-Scholte plate waves below a frequency-thickness product of 1?MHz?mm. From the vibrometry scans the wavelengths, radiation angles and pressure amplitudes of the involved modes could be determined and thus theoretical predictions of the attenuation of the Lamb modes and the energy distribution of quasi-Scholte plate waves between the solid substrate and the liquid environment could be confirmed. more

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Titel Visualization of the interaction of guided acoustic waves with water by light refractive vibrometry
Medien Ultrasonics
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Band 99
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Verfasser/Herausgeber Dr. Sabrina Tietze, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lindner
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Veröffentlichungsdatum 2019-01-01
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Zitation Tietze, Sabrina; Lindner, Gerhard (2019): Visualization of the interaction of guided acoustic waves with water by light refractive vibrometry. Ultrasonics 99, 105995. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2019.105955