TY - CONF A1 - Lozano, Daniel A1 - Bulling, Jannis A1 - Prager, Jens T1 - Modeling guided waves interacting with arbitrarily shaped inhomogeneities using SBFEM in combination with an extruded quadtree decomposition for 3D plates N2 - For structural health monitoring systems or non-destructive testing, it is crucial to study the interactions of ultrasonic-guided waves with inhomogeneities or damage in structural components. Simulation of these interactions poses a challenge. After the wave-damage interaction, the numerical model must reproduce features like mode conversion or wave scattering. Mathematically, damages are discontinuities in a computational domain, and each wave interacts differently because of the geometrical features. We propose a quadtree-based meshing in the current contribution to capture these geometrical characteristics. This kind of discretisation approach requires special techniques to couple cells of different sizes since, after a quadtree decomposition, the problem of so-called hanging nodes may arise. Transition elements based on high-order transfinite shape functions are used to solve this issue. The advantage is that these elements allow the correct coupling of the cells while retaining a high-order interpolation. Moreover, the reuse of the dynamic stiffness matrices can be exploited based on the similarity of the cells. This procedure makes the approach very efficient. Examples show the scattering characteristics of different guided wave modes after interacting with inhomogeneities and discontinuities in a plate. T2 - DAGA 2023 CY - Hamburg, Germany DA - 06.03.2023 KW - SBFEM KW - Quadtree KW - Ultrasound PY - 2023 SP - 1035 EP - 1038 CY - Hamburg AN - OPUS4-59776 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -