Title Ultrasound-based density estimation of composites using water-air interface /
Authors Aleksandrovas, Arturas ; Rodríguez, Alberto ; Svilainis, Linas ; de la Casa, Miguel Angel ; Salazar, Addisson
DOI 10.5755/j01.eie.22.6.17219
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Is Part of Elektronika ir elektrotechnika.. Kaunas : KTU. 2016, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 28-32.. ISSN 1392-1215. eISSN 2029-5731
Keywords [eng] ultrasound ; composite ; material characteri-zation ; density
Abstract [eng] In this paper we present a new method to obtain the density of solid composites using ultrasound. The method exploits the relation between density and acoustic impedance and only requires the measurement of a reference signal form the interface water-air. Once made in a controlled environment, it can be used for any material, and does not require any additional measurement or set-up, so that with a simple calculus it can be used with automatic ultrasonic measurements to calculate the density and therefore elastic constants of the composite for its complete characterization. The method is applied to 3 different materials: two composites based on epoxy and polyester resins respectively with unknown final properties and a common methacrylate sample used as reference. Results show good concordance between obtained and expected results.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eie.22.6.17219.
Published Kaunas : KTU
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2016
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