TY - CONF A1 - Kolkoori, Sanjeevareddy A1 - Rahman, Mehbub-Ur A1 - Chinta, P.K. A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Prager, Jens A2 - Thompson, D. O. A2 - Chimenti, D. E. T1 - Quantitative evaluation of ultrasonic sound fields in anisotropic austenitic welds using 2D ray tracing model T2 - Review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation, volume 31 N2 - Ultrasonic investigation of inhomogeneous anisotropic materials such as austenitic welds is complicated because its columnar grain structure leads to curved energy paths, beam splitting and asymmetrical beam profiles. A ray tracing model has potential advantage in analyzing the ultrasonic sound field propagation and there with optimizing the inspection parameters. In this contribution we present a 2D ray tracing model to predict energy ray paths, ray amplitudes and travel times for the three wave modes quasi longitudinal, quasi shear vertical, and shear horizontal waves in austenitic weld materials. Inhomogenity in the austenitic weld material is represented by discretizing the inhomogeneous region into several homogeneous layers. At each interface between the layers the reflection and transmission problem is computed and yields energy direction, amplitude and energy coefficients. The ray amplitudes are computed accurately by taking into account directivity, divergence and density of rays, phase relations as well as transmission coefficients. Ultrasonic sound fields obtained from the ray tracing model are compared quantitatively with the 2D Elastodynamic Finite Integration Technique (EFIT). The excellent agreement between both models confirms the validity of the presented ray tracing results. Experiments are conducted on austenitic weld samples with longitudinal beam transducer as transmitting probe and amplitudes at the rear surface are scanned by means of electrodynamical probes. Finally, the ray tracing model results are also validated through the experiments. PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY T2 - 38th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation CY - Burlington, VT, USA DA - 2011-07-17 KW - Ultrasonic sound field KW - Ray tracing KW - Ray directivity KW - Austenitic weld PY - 2012 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26205 AN - OPUS4-26205 SN - 978-0-7354-1013-8 SN - 0743-0760 SN - 0094-243X N1 - Serientitel: AIP conference proceedings – Series title: AIP conference proceedings IS - 1430 SP - 1227 EP - 1234 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany