TY - CONF A1 - Hosseini, Seyed M. H. A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Boehm, Rainer A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gohlke, Dirk A1 - Riemer, Stefanie A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Gegenüberstellung der Performance verschiedener Ultraschallsensorsysteme bei der Untersuchung von CFK-Platten T1 - Comparison of performance of different ultrasonic systems for inspection of CFRP plates N2 - Die Zahl der industriellen Anwendungen mit Einsatz von Faserverbundwerkstoffen wächst kontinuierlich vor allem wegen der exzellenten Materialeigenschaften und des geringen Gewichtes dieses Werkstoffes. Entsprechend steigen die Anforderungen an zerstörungsfreie Prüfsysteme zur Gewährleistung des sicheren Betriebes von Komponenten und Strukturen bestehend aus Verbundwerkstoffen. Im Rahmen des EU-Projekes VITCEA (Validated Inspection Techniques for Composites in Energy Applications) wird das Ziel verfolgt, neue Prüfverfahren für moderne Verbundwerkstoffe zu entwickeln und zu validieren. Im Vordergrund steht hierbei als Applikation im Industriesektor Energieversorgung die Prüfung von sicherheitsrelevanten Komponenten von onshore und offshore Windkraftanlagen, wie z.B. deren Rotorblätter und tragende Strukturen. Eine Teilaufgabe innerhalb des Projektes stellen der Vergleich und die Validierung verschiedener Ultraschallprüfmethoden bezüglich ihrer Fähigkeit zum Nachweis der typischen Herstellungs- und betriebsbedingten Materialschädigungen von CFK und GFK dar. Neben verschiedenen konventionellen Ultraschall-Prüftechniken, werden die Phased-Array-Prüfung, insbesondere die Prüfung mit Matrixarrays, sowie die Untersuchung mit berührüngsloser Luftultraschalltechnik bezüglich ihrer Nachweisgrenzen und der Möglichkeiten zur Fehlercharakterisierung an Faserverbundwerkstoffen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse werden mit Untersuchungen mit thermographischen Methoden und Mikrowellentechnik verglichen. N2 - Applications of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composites in modern industries are increasing due to their considerable advantages such as light weight and excellent mechanical properties. Accordingly, importance of operational safety of modern structures made of advanced composites by ensuring the material quality has led to increasing demands for development of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) systems. In the context of a European-project entitled 'Validated Inspection Techniques for Composites in Energy Applications' (VITCEA), the aim is to develop and validate traceable procedures for novel NDE techniques with contrasting damage detection capabilities in energy related applications such as wind and marine turbine blades, nacelles, oil and gas flexible risers. As a part of VITCEA, the present study focuses on application of ultrasonic tests (UTs) including conventional, matrix array, immersion and air-coupled, for quantitative defect detection and quality characterization of FRP structures. Results of UTs are subjected to be compared with other NDE approaches which are applicable for inspection of FRPs such as thermography and microwave techniques. Within the present report, the initial results obtained from conventional and immersion UTs are presented and their capabilities as well as limitations are discussed. In order to validate theoretical predictions and simulation results, further experimental tests will be performed in the framework of the project using reference defect artefacts in which the defect sizes and locations are well defined and controlled. T2 - DGZfP Seminar des Fachausschusses Ultraschallprüfung CY - Saarbrücken, Germany DA - 03.11.2015 KW - Ultraschallsensorsysteme KW - Faserverbundwerkstoffe KW - Kontakttechnik Technik KW - Tauchtechnik KW - Phased-Array-Prüfung KW - Luftultraschall PY - 2015 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-349264 UR - https://www.dgzfp.de/Portals/ultraschall2015/BB/3.pdf SP - Vortrag 3, 1 EP - 10 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP) AN - OPUS4-34926 LA - mul AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Dohse, Elmar A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc T1 - Luftultraschallprüfung von CFK mit planaren und fokussierenden Wandlern N2 - Für die Prüfung von Leichtbaustrukturen ist in den letzten Jahren ein vermehrter Einsatz der Luftultraschallprüfung zu verzeichnen. Insbesondere eignet sich Luftultraschall für die Prüfung von Faserkunststoffverbunden und hybrider Werkstoffverbunde, die ihre Anwendung in der Automobilindustrie und Luftfahrt finden. Für den Bau von marktüblichen Luftultraschall-Wandlern werden Piezokomposite mit Anpassschichten versehen. Ihre Herstellung ist allerdings sehr anspruchsvoll und die erreichbaren Signal-Rausch-Abstände sind für viele Prüfprobleme als noch nicht ausreichend einzustufen. Zwecks gesteigerter Effizienz beim Schallübertrag in die Luft wurden Luftultraschall-Sender und -Empfänger aus zellulärem Polypropylen entwickelt. Dieses piezoelektrische Material ist aufgrund seiner geringer Dichte und seiner sehr geringen Schallgeschwindigkeit an die niedrige akustische Impedanz der Luft deutlich besser angepasst, als die üblicherweise verwendeten Anpassschichten. Letztere können bei Polypropylen-Wandlern daher gänzlich vermieden werden. In diesem Beitrag wird Luftultraschall-Prüfung an zwei verschiedenen CFK-Testkörpern vorgestellt: an einer Platte mit T-Stringern aus dem Seitenleitwerk eines Flugzeugs und an einer Platte mit künstlich eingebrachten Fehlern. Es wurde mit unterschiedlichen planaren und fokussierenden Wandlern geprüft. Marktübliche Wandler mit Anpassschichten wurden mit den selbstentwickelten Wandlern aus zellulärem Polypropylen verglichen. Der Signal-Rausch-Abstand und die laterale Auflösung wurden sowohl im Prüfaufbau mit senkrechter Einschallung als auch mit Schrägeinschallung gemessen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Schrägeinschallung zwar den Signal-Rauschabstand erhöht, aber die laterale Auflösung verschlechtern kann. T2 - DACH Jahrestagung 2015 CY - Salzburg, Austria DA - 11.05.2015 PY - 2015 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-349751 UR - http://jt2015.dgzfp.de/Portals/jt2015/BB/mi1a3.pdf SP - Mi.1.A.3-1 EP - Mi.1.A.3-9 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-34975 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Daschewski, Maxim A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Dohse, Elmar A1 - Kreutzbruck, Marc A1 - Weise, Matthias A1 - Beck, Uwe T1 - Novel air-coupled ultrasonic transducer combining the thermoacoustic with the piezoelectric effect N2 - In recent years, there has been an increasing industrial demand for one-sided inspection of various structures by means of air-coupled ultrasonic technique. Lightweight structures based on carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers may have very complex shapes, making air-coupled transmission difficult or even impossible. The inspection of concrete structures is another example where one-sided inspection is required. To address these challenges a new type of transducer for air-coupled pulse-echo inspection was developed, which unites two principles: thermoacoustic emission and piezoelectric reception. The thermoacoustic emitter is a titanium electrode with a thickness of several tens of nanometer. This electrode was deposited onto charged cellular polypropylene, which serves as a piezoelectric receiver. The thermoacoustic transmission is based on a transformation of the thermal energy of an electrically heated electrode into the acoustic energy of an ultrasonic wave. Thermoacoustic emitters provide resonance-free behaviour and thus extremely broadband pulses. Charged cellular polypropylene is piezoelectric due to the polarization of its cells and it is well matched to air, with a Young modulus in the order of magnitude of MPa. In this contribution we present some pulse-echo measurements with the first prototypes of the combined thermoacoustic-piezoelectric transducer. T2 - World Conference of Non-Destructive Testing CY - Munich, Germany DA - 13.6.2016 KW - Thermoacoustic KW - Piezoelectric KW - Ultrasonic transducer KW - Ferroelectret PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-367151 VL - 158 SP - Mo.1.F.4, 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-36715 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bertovic, Marija A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Müller, Christina A1 - Fahlbruch, B. A1 - Schombach, D. T1 - Einfluss des Zeitdrucks auf die manuelle Ultraschallprüfung. Untersuchung zu menschlichen Faktoren auf die Ergebnisse zerstörungsfreier Prüfungen N2 - Die übergeordnete Zielsetzung unserer Untersuchung bestand darin, am Beispiel von Prüfungen mit Ultraschall eine belastbare Aussage zum Einfluss der Arbeitsbedingungen des Prüfers auf die Qualität der Ergebnisse von zerstörungsfreien Prüfungen zu ermitteln und Möglichkeiten zur Minimierung ungünstiger Einflussfaktoren aufzuzeigen. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung wurde auf die manuelle Ultraschallprüfung gelegt und der Faktor 'Zeitdruck' (in drei Stufen variiert) als die zu variierende physische Einflussgröße gewählt. Die Variation des Faktors Zeitdruck wurde gemäß dem Prozessmodell von der Erhebung psychologischer Faktoren, die das Individuum und die Organisation beschreiben, begleitet. Die Ultraschallprüfungen erfolgten mit zehn Prüfern am Großbehälter und an Vergleichskörpern mit eingebrachten Testfehlern (Nuten, Risse). Die ausgewählten Fehler waren typisch für Prüfaufgaben, die bei wiederkehrenden Ultraschallprüfungen in Kernkraftwerken von den Prüfern zu lösen sind. Die Prüfaufgabe bestand darin, die in den vorgegebenen Prüfabschnitten vorhandenen Reflektoren aufzufinden und deren Amplituden, Ortskoordinaten und Längenerstreckungen zu ermitteln. Als Bewertungsmaßstab für die Qualität der Prüfaussage und für den Einfluss des menschlichen Faktors diente die Präzision der gemessenen Werte. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einen hohen Einfluss des menschlichen Faktors auf das Prüfergebnis und eine Einwirkung des Zeitdrucks besonders auf die Präzision der Messwerte. Hierbei war die Wirkung des individuell wahrgenommenen Zeitdrucks zusammen mit der psychischen Arbeitsbeanspruchung signifikant. Es wurde unter anderem herausgearbeitet, dass durch eine gute Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung, z.B. durch die sorgfältige Einweisung und ein vorgeschaltetes Fertigkeitstraining an Vergleichskörpern, die Zuverlässigkeit der Prüfergebnisse verbessert werden kann. Insgesamt hatte der Faktor 'Organisation' neben der 'Erfahrung' einen hohen Einfluss auf das Leistungsvermögen der Prüfer. Die Projektergebnisse wurden im Abschlussbericht des Forschungsvorhabens SR2514 dargestellt, es wurden drei Empfehlungen zur Vorbereitung und Einweisung der Prüfer, zur Stärkung der Verantwortung der Prüfaufsicht und zum 4-Augen-Prinzip formuliert. Die Empfehlungen wurden in der KTA- Regel 3201.4 'Komponenten des Primärkreises von Leichtwasserreaktoren; Teil 4: Wiederkehrende Prüfungen und Betriebsüberwachung (RÄE Fassung 2010-11)', umgesetzt. T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung 2011 CY - Bremen, Germany DA - 30.05.2011 KW - Human factors KW - ZfP KW - Ultraschallprüfung KW - UT KW - Zeitdruck PY - 2011 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-251610 UR - http://jt2011.dgzfp.de/Portals/jt2011/BB/mi2c3.pdf SN - 978-3-940283-33-7 IS - DGZfP-BB 127 (Mi.2.C.3) SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung (DGZfP) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-25161 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hosseini, Seyed M.H. A1 - Ségur, D. A1 - Boehm, Rainer A1 - Gohlke, Dirk A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Riemer, S. A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Characterization and optimization of ultrasonic tests for inspection of fiber-reinforced plastic composites in energy related applications N2 - Applications of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites in modern industries are increasing due to their considerable advantages such as light weight and excellent mechanical properties. Accordingly, importance of operational safety of modern structures made of advanced composites by ensuring the material quality has led to increasing demands for development of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) systems. In the context of a European project entitled “Validated Inspection Techniques for Composites in Energy Applications” (VITCEA), the aim is to develop and validate traceable procedures for novel NDE techniques with contrasting damage detection capabilities in energy related applications such as wind and marine turbine blades, nacelles, oil and gas flexible risers. Accordingly, VITCEA focuses on optimization of ultrasonic tests (UTs) for quantitative defect detection and quality characterization of FRP structures. In this context, the present study describes the ultrasound field in heterogeneous composite materials. The theoretical predictions are compared with simulation results obtained from CIVA a software package dedicated to NDT simulations based on the asymptotic ray theory. T2 - WCNDT 2016 - - 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing CY - München DA - 13.06.2016 KW - Ultrasonic tests KW - Composite KW - Wave propagation KW - Analytical approach PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-356398 SP - We.4.D.5, 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-35639 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Dohse, E. A1 - Köppe, Enrico T1 - Focusing air-coupled ultrasonic transducers based on ferroelectrets N2 - Rising importance of composite lightweight structures in aircraft and automobile industries increases the demand on reliable non-destructive testing methods for these structures. Air-coupled ultrasonic testing emerged to suit these requirements as it does not require any liquid coupling medium. In conventional air-coupled ultrasonic transducers, matching layers are used in order to decrease the impedance mismatch between transducer and air. Matching layers can be omitted by using ferroelectrets, which are charged cellular polymers having ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties. Especially a low Young’s modulus, low density and low sound velocity of cellular polypropylene (cPP) are properties being required for well-matched air-coupled ultrasonic transducers. In our contribution we show recent enhancements of cPP transducers resulting in focused sound fields and thus improved lateral sensitivity. The influence of different transmitter apertures was evaluated using measurements of the emitted sound field. Further we show a transmission of a test specimen of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) containing artificial damages. Results of focused transducers were compared to planar ferroelectret transducers, as well as to conventional air-coupled transducers. T2 - 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing 2016 CY - München, Germany DA - 13.06.2016 KW - Air-coupled ultrasonic testing KW - Ferroelectrets KW - Cellular polypropylene KW - Focused sound fields KW - Focused transducers PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-355116 UR - http://www.ndt.net/search/docs.php3?showForm=off&id=19453 SP - 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-35511 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Heckel, Thomas T1 - Ultrasonic inspection and data analysis of glass- and carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics N2 - Non-destructive testing (NDT) helps to find material defects without having an influence on the material itself. It is applied as a method of quality control, for online structural health monitoring, and for inspection of safety related components. Due to the ability of automation and a simple test setup ultrasonic testing is one major NDT technique next to several existing options. Whereas contact technique allows the use of higher frequencies of some MHz and phased array focusing, air-coupled ultrasonic testing (ACUT) shows different advantages. Most significant for ACUT is the absence of any coupling fluid and an economical test procedure respective time and costs. Both contact technique and ACUT have been improved and enhanced during the past years. One important enhancement is the development of airborne transducers based on ferroelectrets, like charged cellular polypropylene (cpp), which makes the application of any matching layers being mandatory in conventional piezoelectric transducers unnecessary. In this contribution we show ultrasonic inspection results of specimens made of carbon- and glass-fibre-reinforced plastic. These specimens include defects represented by drill holes and artificial delaminations of various size and depth. We compare inspection results achieved by using contact technique to those achieved by ACUT. For ACUT, conventional piezoelectric transducers and transducers based on cpp were used, both focused as well as non-focused types. Contact inspections were performed with a multi-channel matrix array probe. Once the inspection data is recorded it can be analysed in order to detect and evaluate defects in the specimen. We present different analysing strategies and compare these regarding detection rate and sizing of defects. T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Fatigue Design and Material Defects, FDMD 2017 CY - Lecco, Italy DA - 19.09.2017 KW - Ultrasonic testing KW - Air-coupled KW - Carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic KW - Glass-fibre-reinforced KW - Material inspection KW - Defect sizing PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-434802 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2017.11.092 SN - 2452-3216 VL - 7 SP - 299 EP - 306 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-43480 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Wernicke, Pascal A1 - Hufschläger, Daniel T1 - Pulse compression for air-coupled ferroelectret and thermoacoustic transducers N2 - The main advantage of air-coupled ultrasonic testing is the absence of a liquid couplant, which can damage some materials. However, most air-coupled testing scenarios have the challenge of low signals and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) several orders of magnitude lower than with couplant-assisted tech-niques. Since this challenge of small SNR also exists in radar technology, the pulse compression used there was adapted and applied to the physical conditions of air-coupled ultrasonic testing. This paper presents ultrasonic transmission measurements on a carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer plate using two experimental setups: 1) a thermoacoustic transmitter and an optical microphone and 2) a pair of ferroe-lectret transducers as transmitter and receiver. Thermoacoustic transmitters convert electrical energy to heat, which causes the air to expand thus producing acoustic waves. The optical microphone is based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer. Ferroelectrets are charged cellular polymers, having piezoelectric proper-ties and excellent acoustic matching to air. Both thermoacoustic transmitters and ferroelectrets are non-linear regarding the relationship between the excited sound pressure and the excitation voltage. Due to these physical boundary conditions, unipolar coding was used to modulate the excitation signals. Vari-ous codes were tested, and parameters of the excitation pulses were varied to find the optimal combina-tion for each experimental setup. The application of pulse compression to the combination of thermo-acoustic transmitter and optical microphone increased the signal-to-noise ratio by up to 16 dB and for the ferroelectret transducers by up to 23 dB. T2 - 30th International Congress on Sound and Vibration CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands DA - 08.07.2024 KW - Pulse compression KW - Air-coupled ultrasonic transducers KW - Ferroelectret KW - Thermoacoustics PY - 2024 SN - 978-90-90-39058-1 SP - 1 EP - 7 AN - OPUS4-60725 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Röllig, Mathias A1 - Hosseini, Seyed A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Brackrock, Daniel A1 - Gower, M. A1 - Lodeiro, M. A1 - Baker, G. T1 - Quantitative Bewertung künstlicher und natürlicher Fehler in Faserverbundwerkstoffen mit aktiver Thermografie und Ultraschall N2 - Im EMRP-Projekt VITCEA werden komplementäre ZFP-Verfahren zur Prüfung von Faserverbundwerkstoffen weiterentwickelt und validiert. In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse verschiedener Techniken der aktiven Thermografie und des Ultraschalls vorgestellt. Die Nachweisempfindlichkeiten bezüglich künstlicher und natürlicher Fehler mit unterschiedlichen lateralen Ausdehnungen und in verschiedenen Tiefen werden miteinander verglichen. T2 - DGZfP Jahrestagung 2017 CY - Koblenz, Germany DA - 22.05.2017 KW - CFK KW - GFK KW - Aktive Thermografie KW - Phased Array Ultraschall KW - Luftultraschall PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-410902 SN - 978-3-940283-85-6 VL - BB 162 SP - Di1B1, 1 EP - Di1B1, 8 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e. V. AN - OPUS4-41090 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Caldeira, Rui A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Kupnik, M. T1 - Air-coupled ultrasonic ferroelectret receiver with additional DC voltage N2 - Highly sensitive air-coupled ultrasonic sensors are essential for various applications such as testing of composite materials. One of the major challenges for the development of air-coupled ultrasonic sensors is the impedance matching to air. With a lower acoustic impedance than the usual piezoelectric materials, charged cellular polypropylene film (cPP) offers better matching to air with a similar piezoelectric coefficient. The piezoelectric behaviour demonstrated by cPP comes from polarized air cells that create a permanent internal voltage. The sensitivity of the sensor varies with the application of an additional DC bias voltage. Thus, this work presents a cPP ultrasonic sensor with an improvement of up to 15 ± 1 dB on the signal-to-noise ratio. T2 - Eurosensors 2017 CY - Paris, France DA - 3.9.2017 KW - Ultrasonic KW - Air-coupled KW - Cellular polypropylene KW - Transducer KW - Ferroelectret PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-419009 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1040362 VL - 1 IS - 4 SP - Article 362, 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-41900 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Caldeira, Rui A1 - Bartusch, Jürgen A1 - Schadow, Florian A1 - Vössing, Konrad A1 - Kupnik, M. T1 - Air-coupled ultrasonic ferroelectret receiver with additional bias voltage N2 - High sensitivity is an important requirement for air-coupled ultrasonic sensors applied to materials testing. With a lower acoustic impedance than any piezoelectric material, charged cellular polypropylene (PP) offers better matching to air with a similar piezoelectric coefficient. The piezoelectric properties of charged cellular PP originate from their polarization, creating permanent internal voltage. The sensitivity of the sensor can be increased by applying additional dc bias voltage, as it has been done already for transmitters. This work presents the first ultrasonic sensor based on charged cellular PP including a high-voltage module providing dc bias voltage up to 2 kV. This bias voltage led to an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio of up to 15 ± 1 dB. The measurement of the received signal depending on the applied bias voltage is proposed as a new method of determining the internal voltage of ferroelectrets. The sensor combined with a cellular PP transmitter was applied to nondestructive testing of a rotor blade segment and glued-laminated timber, enabling imaging of the internal structure of these specimens with a thickness around 4 cm. KW - Acoustic sensors KW - Ferroelectret KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Ultrasonic imaging KW - Ultrasonic transducers PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2925666 SN - 0885-3010 SN - 1525-8955 VL - 66 IS - 10 SP - 1600 EP - 1605 PB - IEEE AN - OPUS4-49131 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Air-coupled ultrasonic sensors N2 - We present an overview of air-coupled ultrasonic transducers. T2 - Workshop BAM-IWF CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 25.11.2019 KW - Air-coupled transducers KW - Ferroelectret KW - Thermoacoustics KW - Plasma PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49806 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Hufschläger, Daniel A1 - Bente, Klaas T1 - Advances in air-coupled ultrasonic transducers for non-destructive testing N2 - Commercially available air-coupled transducers applied in non-destructive testing consist of a piezocomposite material and matching layers to reduce the impedance mismatch between the transducer and air. This contribution is an overview of innovative approaches using new piezoelectric materials and other physical principles to transmit and receive an ultrasonic pulse in air. Capacitive and piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs and PMUTs) produce high pressure levels, but they exhibit a very narrow bandwidth. Optical laser-based methods for transmitting and receiving ultrasound promise a higher bandwidth, but do not achieve the same sensitivity as conventional air-coupled transducers. Ferroelectrets are charged cellular polymers exhibiting piezoelectric properties, having a very small acoustic impedance well matched to air. Ferroelectret transducers achieve about the same bandwidth as the most broadband conventional air-coupled transducers, having a higher sensitivity. Thermoacoustic transducers use heat to initiate an acoustic wave, acting as transmitters in ultrasonic range. Thermoacoustic transducers enable excitation of extremely broadband pulses while producing high pressure levels, which opens new possibilities for advanced signal processing. The newest member of the family of air-coupled ultrasonic transmitters is the plasma-based transducer, using both the thermoacoustic effect and the movements of the ions (so called ionic wind) to create acoustic waves. T2 - International Congress on Ultrasonics CY - Bruges, Belgium DA - 03.09.2019 KW - Air-coupled transducers KW - Ferroelectret KW - Thermoacoustics KW - Plasma acoustics KW - Non-destructive testing PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001072 SN - 1939-800X N1 - Geburtsname von Hufschläger, Daniel: Kotschate, D. - Birth name of Hufschläger, Daniel: Kotschate, D. VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 030003-1 EP - 030003-7 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Lancaster, Pa. AN - OPUS4-50103 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Dominguez-Macaya, A. A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Gómez Álvarez-Arenas, T. E A1 - Aurrekoetxea, J. A1 - Iturrospe, A. T1 - Air-coupled ultrasonic testing with Lamb waves for straight and curved GFRP plates N2 - The use of composite materials has been steadily growing during the last decades, as well as the requirements on quality, mechanical properties and geometries of the parts. Some processes, like the 3D UV pultrusion process, manufacture parts that are long and thin, whilst having a varying curvature radius along the same part or even no curvature at all. Studying their mechanical properties along the main fiber direction, which is of foremost interest, is not an easy task nor efficient with most nondestructive methods. The use of air-coupled ultrasonics to evaluate the properties of composite materials has been widely proved by several authors, mainly using guided waves that provide information on the orthotropic properties of this kind of materials. Most of this work has focused on analyzing straight plate-like geometries, due to the simplicity to generate desired Lamb modes in the plate and analyze the behavior of guided waves inside the plate. In our contribution, the differences in the propagation of Lamb waves for straight and curved geometry glass fiber reinforced polymers (GFRP) have been analyzed. A GFRP test sample cured with UV light with one straight and one curved area has been evaluated. The responses of the generated Lamb wave modes for the straight and curved geometries have been compared, accounting for variations in the transducer characteristics, e.g. resonance behavior and focusing. T2 - International Congress on Ultrasonics CY - Bruges, Begium DA - 03.09.2019 KW - Air-coupled KW - Guided waves KW - Composites PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001072 VL - 38 SP - 045005 AN - OPUS4-50104 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Ferroelektret-Wandler für Luftultraschall N2 - Es wird ein Überblick über die Forschung an Ferroelektret-Wandlern für luftgekoppelte Ultraschallprüfung gegeben. T2 - Innovative ZFP mit bildgebender Ultraschallprüftechnik CY - Braunschweig, Germany DA - 29.11.2019 KW - Luftultraschall KW - Ferroelektret KW - Wandler PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-50107 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Linear and matrix phased array inspection of complex thin wall components N2 - The application of phased arrays in either linear or matrix arrangement in combination with signal processing opens the door for the mechanized inspection of different thin wall materials itself as well as their joining methods. Modern lightweight components are typically manufactured by a composition of different types of e.g. steels, metals, fiber reinforced plastics and glass. Dependent on the material combinations e.g. welding, brazing, bonding, cladding or coating may be applied during the manufacturing process to join different semi-finished products to form the component. The resulting complex material composition and different damage mechanisms pose new challenges to non-destructive testing with ultrasound due to the different material properties and the overall arrangement of the materials employed. The sound field variation capabilities of array probes may be helpful to overcome some of these challenges if adapted to the specific inspection task. Examples for the non-destructive mechanized phased array inspection of different types of materials and joining methods will be presented. T2 - KINT Symposium CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands DA - 30.10.2019 KW - Matrix array KW - Phased array KW - Joints PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49538 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Advances in air-coupled ultrasonic transducers for non-destructive testing N2 - Conventional ultrasonic testing involves the application of a fluid couplant for impedance matching. Increasing use of lightweight structures, composite materials and adhesive joints mostly in aerospace and automotive industry created an increasing interest in air-coupled ultrasonic testing methods, to protect sensitive surfaces and simplify maintenance. Commercially available air-coupled transducers consist of a piezocomposite material and matching layers to reduce the impedance mismatch between the transducer and air. This contribution is an overview of innovative approaches using new piezoelectric materials and other physical principles to transmit and receive an ultrasonic pulse in air. Capacitive and piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs and PMUTs) produce high pressure levels, but they exhibit a very narrow bandwidth. Optical laser-based methods for transmitting and receiving ultrasound promise a higher bandwidth, but do not achieve the same sensitivity as conventional air-coupled transducers. Ferroelectrets are charged cellular polymers exhibiting piezoelectric properties, having a very small acoustic impedance well matched to air. Ferroelectret transducers achieve about the same bandwidth as the most broadband conventional air-coupled transducers, having a higher sensitivity. Thermoacoustic transducers use heat to initiate an acoustic wave, acting as transmitters in ultrasonic range. Thermoacoustic transducers enable excitation of extremely broadband pulses while producing high pressure levels, which opens new possibilities for advanced signal processing. The newest member of the family of air-coupled ultrasonic transmitters is the plasma-based transducer, using both the thermoacoustic effect and the movements of the ions (so called ionic wind) to create acoustic waves. T2 - International Congress on Ultrasonics CY - Bruges, Belgium DA - 03.09.2019 KW - Air-coupled transducers KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Ferroelectret KW - Thermoacoustics KW - Plasma acoustics PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48963 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Vössing, Konrad A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst ED - Ross, R. ED - Sauter, U. T1 - Contactless testing of wood-based materials with novel air-coupled ultrasonic transducers N2 - The detection of delamination, rot and cracks causing a decrease of strength in wooden construction elements is a key task for nondestructive testing (NDT). Air-coupled ultrasound (ACU) is used to detect flaws without having to provide contact to the surface or otherwise affect the object. Novel ferroelectric transducers with a high signal-to-noise ratio enable an accurate flaw detection. Transducers made of cellular polypropylene (PP) are suitable for characterizing wood-based materials (WBM) because their extremely low Young’s modulus and low density mean a favorable acoustic impedance for the transmission of ultrasonic waves between the transducer and air. The transducers can be applied during the production of WBM and during its service life. The device enables a fast in-situ recognition of defects with frequencies between 90 kHz and 250 kHz. Measurements can be performed in through transmission for a high resolution or in pulse-echo technique in case of one-sided access at the expense of reduced signal strength. Ultrasonic quality assurance for wood is an important attempt to increase the acceptance of wooden structures and towards sustainability in civil engineering in general. T2 - 21. International Nondestructive Testing and evaluation of Wood Symposium CY - Freiburg, Germany DA - 24.09.2019 KW - Air-coupled ultrasound KW - Defect detection KW - Nondestructive Testing KW - Timber PY - 2019 SP - 100 PB - FVA CY - Freiburg AN - OPUS4-49169 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kotschate, Daniel A1 - Gaal, Mate T1 - Plasma-akustische Wechselwirkungen von Mikrohohlkathodenentladungen N2 - Während des Entladungsprozesses interagieren Mikrohohlkathodenentladungen (engl. micro hollow cathode discharges) durch verschiedenste physikalische Phänomene mit ihrer Umgebung. Analog zu Funken- und Koronaentladung treten neben den optischen Erscheinungen auch akustische Wechselwirkungen bis in den Ultraschallbereich auf. Diese Wechselwirkungen sind bisher jedoch nur selten Gegenstand der Forschung gewesen. Durch elektro-chemischen Prozesse und die Stromdichteverteilung während des Zündvorgangs erfährt das angrenzende Fluid eine, durch den thermoakustischen Effekt hervorgerufene, rapide Dichteänderung und erzeugt somit eine akustische Emission. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den letzten Stand der akustischen Beschreibung der Mikrohohlkathode. Weiterhin wird anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen, wie der Charakterisierung von akustischen Sensoren, sowie der Nutzung innerhalb der zerstörungsfreien Werkstoffprüfung, die Nutzung dieser Entladungsart präsentiert. Darüber hinaus erlaubt die Kenntnis hinsichtlich der akustischen Eigenschaften der Entladung wichtige Rückschlüsse im Rahmen der Plasmadiagnostik. T2 - 45. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA 2019) CY - Rostock, Germany DA - 18.03.2019 KW - Micro hollow cathode discharge KW - Atmospheric pressure plasma PY - 2019 SP - 1049 EP - 1051 AN - OPUS4-47790 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Shapovalov, Oleg A1 - Gaal, Mate A1 - Hönig, Gerald A1 - Gradt, Thomas A1 - Weiss, S. T1 - Temperature dependence of the propagation speed of a longitudinal wave in different solids for use as a wedge material in an extreme-temperature-resistant ultrasonic transducer N2 - In special cases of angle beam ultrasonic measurement – e.g. defect detection in hot solids as well as flow measurement of liquid gases or energy storage mediums – the applied transducer has to withstand extreme temperatures. Since the irradiation angle into the specific material is determined not only by wedge design, but also by the speed of sound in both the wedge material and the tested object, the developer must take into account the speed of the wave propagation in a wedge material over the whole temperature range of transducers application. In this study we investigate the temperature dependence of the speed of longitudinal wave propagation in 10 different materials in the range from -200 °C to 400 °C. The investigated materials belong to different material classes (ceramics, glass, as well as ferrous and non-ferrous metals) and are all temperature-resistant up to at least 600 °C, and therefore applicable as wedge materials in an ultrasonic transducer for use at extreme temperatures. T2 - 23rd International Congress on Acoustics CY - Aachen, Germany DA - 09.09.2019 KW - Ultrasonic Transducer KW - Speed of sound KW - Longitudinal Wave KW - Temperature PY - 2019 SP - 4776 EP - 4782 AN - OPUS4-48980 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -