Experimental Observation of Cumulative Second-Harmonic Generation of Lamb Waves Propagating in Long Bones

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• 作者：Zhenggang Zhang^&lowast ; ; Dan Liu^&lowast ; ; Mingxi Deng^&dagger ; ; ^{dengmx65@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail} ; Dean Ta^&lowast ; ; ^# ; ^{tda@fudan.edu.cn" class="auth_mail} ; ^{tadean.fudan@gmail.com" class="auth_mail} ; Weiqi Wang^&lowast ;
• 关键词：Lamb waves ; Dispersion ; Second-harmonic generation ; Long bones
• 刊名：Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
• 出版年：July 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：40
• 期：7
• 页码：1660-1670
• 全文大小：1752 K

文摘

The experimental observation of cumulative second-harmonic generation of fundamental Lamb waves in long bones is reported. Based on the modal expansion approach to waveguide excitation and the dispersion characteristics of Lamb waves in long bones, the mechanism underlying the generation and accumulation of second harmonics by propagation of the fundamental Lamb waves was investigated. An experimental setup was established to detect the second-harmonic signals of Lamb wave propagation in long bones in vitro. Through analysis of the group velocities of the received signals, the appropriate fundamental Lamb wave modes and the duration of the second-harmonic signals could be identified. The integrated amplitude of the time-domain second-harmonic signal was introduced and used to characterize the efficiency of second-harmonic generation by fundamental Lamb wave propagation. The results indicate that the second-harmonic signal generated by fundamental Lamb waves propagating in long bones can be observed clearly, and the effect was cumulative with propagation distance when the fundamental Lamb wave mode and the double-frequency Lamb wave mode had the same phase velocities. The present results may be important in the development of a new method to evaluate the status of long bones using the cumulative second harmonic of ultrasonic Lamb waves.