Cut-off properties of leaky surface waves for the evaluation of adhesive-adherend interlayers by acoustic microscope

P. Zinin*, O. Lefeuvre, I. Goldfarb, G. A.D. Briggs, B. D. Zeller, A. J. Kinloch, P. Cawley, L. Robert, G. E. Thompson

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Abstract

The standard surface pre-treatment used on aluminium adherends in aerospace applications produces a porous oxide structure on the adherend surface. The adhesive penetrates some distance into the pores to form a microcomposite. The thickness of these interlayers in a typical aluminium-epoxy joint is in the order of 1 μm only. Surface acoustic wave measurements have been carried out with an acoustic microscope at frequencies between 220 and 980 MHz for different thicknesses of oxide layer. A good agreement has been found between the predictions and the acoustic microscope measurements. Attention has been focused on the anomalous behaviour of the attenuation around the cutoff.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)803-806
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
Volume2
StatePublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1996 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Part 2 (of 2) - San Antonio, TX, USA
Duration: 3 Nov 19966 Nov 1996

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