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This paper presents an approach to detect damage in composite laminates. The physical basis of the coin-tap method has been investigated in previous studies. The tap test has the ability to indicate damage such as delamination and disbond in a composite structure due to a localized change of stiffness. The changes in vibration signature may be detected by ears or more precisely by measurement instrumentation. It has been shown that the characteristics of sound radiating from a structure during a tap are changed by the presence of defects in the composite laminate. For structurally radiated sounds, the sound field is directly coupled to the structural motion. Therefore, impact response analysis should be performed. In this study, the radiated sound induced by tap was computed by solving the Rayleigh integral equation. Some damage models were also used to analyze the impact response and acoustic analysis of damaged composite laminates. The predicted impact force and sound pressure histories were compared with tap test data. The effects of in-plane load on the impact force and radiated sound were also investigated numerically.
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Sung Joon Kim received a M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Research Institute), Korea in 1992. He received Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Chungnam National University, Korea in 2010. He worked at Korea Aerospace Institute during 1994~2001. Since 2001, he has worked at KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) as researcher. He conducted stress and fatigue analysis of fixed wing aircraft. His research interests include structural health monitoring, smart structure and acoustics.
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Kim, S.J. Damage detection in composite under in-plane load using tap test. J Mech Sci Technol 29, 199–207 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-014-1103-5
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