Da. Bruttomesso et al., EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERACTION OF RAYLEIGH SURFACE-WAVES WITH CORNERS, Journal of nondestructive evaluation, 16(1), 1997, pp. 21-30
This paper presents the results of an experimental and numerical inves
tigation of the interaction of Rayleigh surface waves with corners. Th
e experimental portion uses a dual probe laser interferometer to measu
re the interaction of a normal incident Rayleigh wave with corners of
varying angles. These incident Rayleigh waves are optically generated
with a pulse laser. The numerical procedure uses the frequency domain
approach of the boundary element method (BEM) combined with an inverse
Fourier transformation to calculate surface displacements. The experi
mental and numerical results examine the scattered wave fields as a fu
nction of corner angle. In addition, the experimentally obtained value
s are compared with the numerically predicted results and good agreeme
nt is obtained.