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Application of Rayleigh wave-based nonlinearity parameter to estimate the remnant useful life of fatigued thick aluminum plates

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In the present study, Rayleigh waves are propagated through a thick Aluminum (Al) plate to evaluate its material nonlinearity based on the second harmonic produced in the response. The experiments and numerical simulations are carried out on the pristine and fatigued thick Al specimens, and an amplitude-based Rayleigh wave nonlinear parameter is used to characterize the material nonlinearity. In addition, a physics-based nonlinear parameter that depends on the sub-structural evolution parameters, and higher-order plastic and elastic constants are also used to characterize the nonlinearity of the pristine and fatigued Al material. They found to be in good agreement for the predefined conditions of tone burst cycles in the actuation signal and propagation distance. The knowledge of material nonlinearity parameters evaluated for the pristine and fatigued thick plate specimens using Rayleigh waves is shown in the present study to be crucial to evaluate the remnant useful life (RUL) of the fatigued specimen with fair accuracy.

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The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. [T32-101/15-R]) and a grant from City University of Hong Kong (Project No. 7005120).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 076, India

    Nitesh P. Yelve

  2. Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems (AIMS) Center, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA

    Faeez Masurkar

  3. SEAM and CNDT Laboratories, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, China

    Peter Tse

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Yelve, N.P., Masurkar, F. & Tse, P. Application of Rayleigh wave-based nonlinearity parameter to estimate the remnant useful life of fatigued thick aluminum plates. ISSS J Micro Smart Syst 10, 161–178 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41683-021-00074-5

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