Laser ultrasonic technique for surface defects detection of 6061 aluminum alloy

In order to estimate and detect the surface defect depth of metals, the transmission method of laser ultrasonic surface waves is used in this work. The laser ultrasonic detection platform taking use of thermoelastic mechanism as acoustic signal excitation method and interference receiver as acoustic signal receiver method was built, by which B-scan images of detected specimens with surface defects were collected to establish the relationship between the transmission coefficient and depth of the surface defect. Experimental results show that the amplitude of transmitted acoustic signal is related to the depth of surface defect. At last, a fitted curve of transmission coefficient using measured experimental data is obtained to estimate depth of surface defect on the 6061 aluminum alloy. Furthermore, a surface defect depth of 0.3 mm is estimated by the fitting curve with an estimated error of 16%. Therefore, a experimental method using the transmission method by laser ultrasonic is presented in this paper.

Corrosion-fatigue evaluation in Q235A steel using nonlinear Rayleigh surface waves

This paper presents a non-destrcutive evaluation method for the evolution of corrosion fatigue of Q235A steel. Specimen surface degradation due to corrosion fatigue from the combined interaction of corrosion and cyclic loading leads to harmonic generation during Rayleigh wave propagation along the specimen surface,which allows for an early prediction of material fatigue life. The relative nonlinearity parameter β as an evaluation parameter,which is denoted as a ratio of fundamental and second-order harmonic amplitudes,is measured by using an experimental platform based on a pair of wedge transducers to launch and receive Rayleigh wave signal. Subjected to an immersion corrosion method with 10% NaCl solution and a 20 Hz cyclic loading,a corrosion-fatigue specimen was made,and its relative nonlinearity parameter was measured every 10 5 cycles until to 7 ×10^5 cycles. A measured curve of relative nonlinearity parameter versus fatigue load cycles,which is produced by surface degradation of specimen corrosion fatigue,showed an initial steady trend followed by a rapid increase. Experimental results demonstrate that corrosion fatigue results in the sudden destruction of a Q235A steel specimen and nonlinear Rayleigh surface waves measurement technique can be used to quantitatively characterize fatigue life of Q235A steel.