抄録
This study concerns the detection method of contact-type failure based on frequency down-conversion of elastic vibrations. Frequency down-conversion is the phenomenon caused by contact acoustic nonlinearity (CAN) caused by large amplitude ultrasonic vibrations. The contact condition is fluctuated by large amplitude ultrasonic vibration. In this condition, the scatter characteristic of another ultrasonic vibration, of which frequency is close to the large amplitude ultrasonic vibration, fluctuates. As this result, the low-frequency vibration, of which frequency is the difference frequency between two ultrasonic vibrations, generates. The detection method of the contact-type failure based on frequency down-conversion of elastic vibrations is useful to detect small failure. In this study, the novel detection and localization method by measurement of structural intensity of low-frequency vibration is proposed. Frequency down-conversion generates, only when the object has a contact-type failure. Therefore, the contact-type failure can be regarded as an exciting source of low-frequency vibration. The localization of contact-type failure realizes by the measurement of structural intensity of low-frequency vibration caused by frequency down-conversion as a detection method of exciting point. In this paper, the basic investigation of the proposed method is done by experiment using simple cantilever. Firstly, the vibration mode of low-frequency vibration caused by frequency down-conversion is measured. It is shown that the estimation of a failure location from vibration mode shape is difficult. Secondly, the concept of the proposed method is introduced. The structural intensity of the low-frequency vibration is calculated using the measured vibration mode. It is shown that the detection and localization of the contact-type failure can be realized by the measurement of the structural intensity. Finally, the basic investigation of the proposed method is done by experiment. It is confirmed that the sign of the structural intensity of low-frequency vibration caused by frequency down-conversion changed at the failure location.
