Diffraction on the cylindrical cavity of ultrasonic waves excited by pulse laser radiation

The goal of the research is to create techniques and tools for detecting the discontinuities in metal with the help of the shadow and shadow-mirror methods of monitoring the ultrasonic flaw detection using the non-contact methods of ultrasonic wave generation and registration. To achieve this goal, studies on the diffraction of bulk elastic waves in a cylindrical cavity have been carried out on a special stand. A pulsed laser and a broadband EMA receiver are used to excite ultrasound and receive the diffracted waves. It is established that along with a decrease in the amplitude of the ultrasound pulses of longitudinal and shear waves transmitted through a discontinuity, a change in the pulse duration and frequency, which accounts for the maximum of their spectrum, can be used as the quantitative estimate of the defects.