Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1758820 Ultrasonics 2013 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

The use of Rayleigh waves enables the solution of several important inspection problems. Propagation of surface waves along straight boundaries has been properly studied but investigations about their propagation on cylindrical surfaces are not sufficient, despite they can be still of interest for NDE applications. It has been proved experimentally that a surface wave pulse suffers a phase shift during its propagation along a cylindrical surface. A numerical approach has been developed to efficiently study these effects for different materials, curvatures and frequencies. This study can help the scientific community to better understand the phenomenon, quite complex and not yet fully explored.

► A surface wave pulse suffers a phase shift during its propagation along a cylindrical surface. ► We developed a numerical approach to efficiently study the phase-shift effect. ► The numerical results replicated the experimental measurements. ► This study helps the scientific community to better understand the phenomenon.

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