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A practical omni-directional SH wave transducer for structural health monitoring based on two thickness-poled piezoelectric half-rings.

Ultrasonics 2018 July 20
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become more and more important in modern industries as it can monitor the safety of structures during the full service life and prevent possible losses of life and economics. Shear horizontal wave in plate-like structures is very useful for long distance inspection since its fundamental mode (SH0 ) is totally non-dispersive. However, all the currently available SH wave transducers are not suitable for practical SHM because of their complicated structures. In this work, we firstly investigated via finite element (FEM) simulations the performances of thickness-poled d15 PZT ring based omni-directional SH wave piezoelectric transducers (OSH-PT) consisting of different number of elements. Results show that the two-half-ring based OSH-PT can have perfect omni-directivity and acceptable performances in excitation/reception of SH0 waves. Then, experimental testing on a 21 mm outer-diameter (OD), 9 mm inner-diameter (ID) two-half-ring OSH-PT shows that it exhibits acceptable but not desirable performances in both excitation and reception of SH0 wave. Finally, size optimization was conducted on the two-half-ring based OSH-PT using FEM simulations and results showed that its performances can be fairly enhanced by reducing the outer diameter of the half-ring. Testing results on a 12 mm-OD, 6 mm-ID OSH-PT show that the SH0 -to-Lamb waves ratio in the case of self-excitation and self-reception can be over 20 dB from 115 kHz to 250 kHz, which is good enough for practical applications. The proposed two-half-ring OSH-PT is expected to be widely used in SH0 wave based SHM due to its simple structure, easy fabrication/assembling, low cost and good performances.

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