SM7_10873
XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Electromagnetic - Resonance - Ultrasound Microscopy with Isolated Langasite Oscillator for Measuring Local Elastic Constants of Multi - Phase Solids

Jiayong Tian, Hirotsugu Ogi, Toyokazu Tada, Masahiko Hirao
Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan


We developed a new acoustic-resonance microscopy, electromagnetic-resonance- ultrasound microscopy (ERUM), to map a material?fs elastic constant in a local surface region. It is based on the resonance-frequency shift of a langasite (La3Ga5SiO14) crystal excited by an electric field from a surrounding solenoid coil: no electrodes were used. The acoustic coupling is made only at the tip of the crystal touching the specimen surface.?@Analysis on the dynamic contact stiffness with the Rayleigh-Ritz method deduced the local elastic constant from the resonance frequency. As an illustrating example, Young?fs modulus distribution of a duplex stainless steel is presented, which shows good agreement with the existing study.



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