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The acoustoelastic stress analysis is based on the fact that an initially isotropic material becomes anisotropic under stress. The birefringent effect for polarized ultrasonic shear waves in the stressed material will then be similar to the photoelastic effect in which a light wave and a transparent model specimen are used. In this paper, the velocity differences of acoustical, perpendicularly polarized waves are measured directly by a ‘sing-around’ method using a 5-MHz shear-type transducer. The residual-stress distribution in a mild-steel circular plate with a concentrically patch-welded joint is measured by this method. The acoustoelastic coefficient is obtained separately by uniaxial testing of the base material. The results show that the acoustical stress measurement, carried out nondestructively, agrees well with those obtained by conventional destructive methods as well as with theoretical predictions.
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Fukuoka, H., Toda, H. & Yamane, T. Acoustoelastic stress analysis of residual stress in a patch-welded disk. Experimental Mechanics 18, 277–280 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02324169
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02324169