Lamb wave based approach to the determination of elastic and viscoelastic material parameters

Abstract

In this paper a measurement procedure is presented to identify both elastic and viscoelastic material parameters of plate-like samples using broadband ultrasonic waves. These Lamb waves are excited via the thermoelastic effect using laser radiation and detected by a piezoelectric transducer. The resulting measurement data is transformed to yield information about multiple propagating Lamb waves as well as their attenuation. These results are compared to simulation results in an inverse procedure to identify the parameters of an elastic and a viscoelastic material model.