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 T2 - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 38 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 -