Abstract
A one and two dimensional imaging of a crack by a novel nonlinear frequency-mixing photoacoustic method is presented. Acoustic waves are initiated by a pair of laser beams intensity-modulated at two different frequencies. The first laser beam, intensity modulated at a low frequency \(f_L\), generates a thermoelastic wave which modulates the local crack rigidity up to complete closing/opening of the crack, corresponding to crack breathing. The second laser beam, intensity modulated at much higher frequency \(f_H\), generates an acoustic wave incident on the breathing crack. The detection of acoustic waves at mixed frequencies \(f_H\pm nf_L\) (\(n=1,2,\dots \)), absent in the excitation frequency spectrum, provides detection of the crack, which can be achieved all-optically. The theory attributes the generation of the frequency-mixed spectral components to the modulation of the acoustic waves reflected/transmitted by the time-varying nonlinear rigidity of the crack. The crack rigidity is modified due to stationary and oscillating components from the laser-induced thermoelastic stresses. The amplitudes of the spectral sidelobes are non-monotonous functions of the increasing thermoelastic loading. Fitting such experimental evolutions with theoretical ones leads to estimating various local parameters of the crack, including its width and rigidity.
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The beam sizes given, here and after, correspond to the 1/e level in intensity.
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The spectra in Fig. 6.5a,b were extracted from this 1D scan when the co-focused beams are localised 500 and 0 \(\upmu \text {m}\) away from the crack, respectively.
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Mezil, S., Chigarev, N., Tournat, V., Gusev, V. (2020). Nonlinear Frequency-Mixing Photoacoustic Characterisation of a Crack. In: Jhang, KY., Lissenden, C., Solodov, I., Ohara, Y., Gusev, V. (eds) Measurement of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Characteristics. Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1461-6_6
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