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Ultrasonic theories generally predict a scattering amplitude which relates a spherically spreading, far-field scattered wave to an incident plane wave. In ultrasonic immersion measurements, the frequency and angular dependences of the scattering amplitude are convolved with those of the transmitting and receiving transducers and the propagation through the liquid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces. This paper presents a set of approximate corrections for these effects for the cases of angle beam inspection through planar, spherically curved or cylindrically curved surfaces. The primary parameters in the correction are the function D, which corrects for the diffraction effects occurring during a transducer calibration experiment, and the function C, which describes the on-axis pressure variation of the beam. Values of C and D are available in the literature for the case of a piston transducer radiating into an infinite fluid medium. The major portion of this paper is concerned with the extension of those results to the aforementioned two media problems in which mode conversion, refraction, diffraction, and focussing all play interrelated roles. Results of preliminary experiments to test the corrections are also included.
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Thompson, R.B., Gray, T.A. (1983). Analytic Diffraction Corrections to Ultrasonic Scattering Measurements. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, vol 2A. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3706-5_35
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