Detection of Defects in Circular Plates using a Scanning Laser Vibrometer

Abstract

This paper investigates dynamic characteristics (mode shapes and natural frequencies) and defect detection of circular plates using a scanning laser vibrometer. Analytical dynamic characteristics of a circular aluminum plate having a clamped inner rim and a free outer rim are obtained using two methods; one uses Bessel functions and the other uses a multiple shooting method. An in-house finite element code GESA is also used to analyze the circular plate using the DKT plate element. Numerical results show that high-frequency Operational Deflection Shapes (ODSs) are needed in order to locate small defects. Detection of two defects in the circular aluminum plate is experimentally studied using the distributions of RMS velocities under broadband periodic chirp excitations, RMS velocities of ODSs, symmetry breaking of ODSs, splitting of natural frequencies and ODSs, and a Boundary Effect Detection (BED) method. The BED method is a dynamics-based non-destructive method; it processes experimental ODSs to reveal extra local boundary effects caused by defects to reveal locations of defects. Experimental results show that small defects in circular plates can be pinpointed by these approaches. Moreover, a new concept of using the balance of elastic and kinetic energies within a mode cell for detecting defects in two-dimensional structures of irregular shapes is proposed.

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damage detection circular plates boundary effects scanning laser vibrometer

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