scholarly journals Mutation effect of acoustic and electromagnetic emissions of hard rock impact failure

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 155014771882447
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Cai-Ping Lu ◽  
Heng Zhang

To reveal acoustic emission and electromagnetic emission effects during hard rock impact failure is a crucial issue for monitoring and warning rockburst risk induced by hard roof fracture and fall. The presented research focuses on acoustic emission and electromagnetic emission and microseismic effects detected during laboratory tests and by in situ multi-parameter observations, and the field observations agreed satisfactorily with the experimental evidences. The following main conclusions were drawn: (1) the stress level, frequency of micro-cracks, and impact failure regularity of hard rocks can be revealed with electromagnetic emission and acoustic emission/microseismic parameters, respectively; (2) acoustic emission/microseismic event counts can directly reveal the cracks change in rocks, and the initiation, propagation, and coalescence of micro-cracks can be presented as first increase, followed by decrease in acoustic emission/microseismic event counts; (3) in most cases, only when stress suddenly decreases or the rock final collapses, acoustic emissions show obviously abnormal; and (4) acoustic emission/microseismic can be more effectively applied to warn rockburst danger. The above conclusions may shed light on the effective monitoring and warning methods of rockburst triggered by hard roof fall, and events contribute to some interpretations to originally transient precursors of hard rock fracturing.

Author(s):  
A. Albers ◽  
M. Dickerhof

The application of Acoustic Emission technology for monitoring rolling element or hydrodynamic plain bearings has been addressed by several authors in former times. Most of these investigations took place under idealized conditions, to allow the concentration on one single source of emission, typically recorded by means of a piezoelectric sensor. This can be achieved by either eliminating other sources in advance or taking measures to shield them out (e. g. by placing the acoustic emission sensor very close to the source of interest), so that in consequence only one source of structure-born sound is present in the signal. With a practical orientation this is often not possible. In point of fact, a multitude of potential sources of emission can be worth considering, unfortunately superimposing one another. The investigations reported in this paper are therefore focused on the simultaneous monitoring of both bearing types mentioned above. Only one piezoelectric acoustic emission sensor is utilized, which is placed rather far away from the monitored bearings. By derivation of characteristic values from the sensor signal, different simulated defects can be detected reliably: seeded defects in the inner and outer race of rolling element bearings as well as the occurrence of mixed friction in the sliding surface bearing due to interrupted lubricant inflow.


Author(s):  
J. Saliba ◽  
A. Loukili ◽  
J.P. Regoin ◽  
D. Grégoire ◽  
L. Verdon ◽  
...  

The fracture process zone (FPZ) was investigated on unnotched and notched beams with different notch depths. Three point bending tests were realized on plain concrete under crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) control. Crack growth was monitored by applying the acoustic emission (AE) technique. In order to improve our understanding of the FPZ, the width and length of the FPZ were followed based on the AE source locations maps and several AE parameters were studied during the entire loading process. The bvalue analysis, defined as the log-linear slope of the frequency-magnitude distribution of acoustic emissions, was also carried out to describe quantitatively the influence of the relative notch depth on the fracture process. The results show that the number of AE hits increased with the decrease of the relative notch depth and an important AE energy dissipation was observed at the crack initiation in unnotched beams. In addition, the relative notch depth influenced the AE characteristics, the process of crack propagation, and the brittleness of concrete.


1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (64) ◽  
pp. 144-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. St. Lawrence ◽  
T. E. Lang ◽  
R.L. Brown ◽  
C. C. Bradley

AbstractAcoustic emissions in the audio spectrum are reported from observations of laboratory experiments conducted on snow samples in uniaxial compression. A number of tests show the pattern of acoustic emissions to be a function of the rate of deformation. Over the frequency range 20 to 7 000 Hz acoustic emissions are associated with rates of deformation corresponding to brittle fracture of the snow sample. Though probably present, no acoustic emissions were detected from samples deforming plastically.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1085 ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
Petr Khorsov ◽  
Nikolay Khorsov ◽  
Vladimir Surzhikov

The paper assessed the possibility of using acoustic emission from the dielectric sample during stepwise loading. The electromagnetic signal from the sample was detected by using an apparatus of mechanical repeatedly pulsed excitation of the sample at each stage of loading. It was found that the response consists of a deterministic component (due to the excitation pulse) and random components noise and acoustic emission. It were allocated random components, calculated their standard deviations. The influence of the electromagnetic emission on standard deviation of the random component of response under step load on the specimen was evaluated. It has been shown that the component of the electromagnetic emission can be an informative parameter to evaluate defectiveness of the object of a dielectric material under load.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1192-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris Elasha ◽  
Matthew Greaves ◽  
David Mba

Helicopter gearboxes significantly differ from other transmission types and exhibit unique behaviours that reduce the effectiveness of traditional fault diagnostics methods. In addition, due to lack of redundancy, helicopter transmission failure can lead to catastrophic accidents. Bearing faults in helicopter gearboxes are difficult to discriminate due to the low signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of gear vibration. In addition, the vibration response from the planet gear bearings must be transmitted via a time-varying path through the ring gear to externally mounted accelerometers, which cause yet further bearing vibration signal suppression. This research programme has resulted in the successful proof of concept of a broadband wireless transmission sensor that incorporates power scavenging while operating within a helicopter gearbox. In addition, this article investigates the application of signal separation techniques in detection of bearing faults within the epicyclic module of a large helicopter (CS-29) main gearbox using vibration and acoustic emissions. It compares their effectiveness for various operating conditions. Three signal processing techniques, including an adaptive filter, spectral kurtosis and envelope analysis, were combined for this investigation. In addition, this research discusses the feasibility of using acoustic emission for helicopter gearbox monitoring.


2006 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 1267-1270
Author(s):  
Min Rae Lee ◽  
Joon Hyun Lee

This paper is focused on the capability of the Acousto-Ultrasonic (AU) technique and the non-contact technique to provide diagnostic information useful to detect defect in composite. An acousto-ultrasonics (AU) is to simulate stress wave that resemble acoustic emission waves but without disrupting the material. One launched inside the material sample, the wave are modified by stochastic processes like those that affect spontaneous acoustic emissions from internal sources during stressing, deformation, etc. Moreover, acousto-uloasonic waves are launched periodically at predetermined times and with predetermined reparation rates. A fiber reinforced composite materials should be inspected in fabrication process in order to enhance quality by prevent defects such as delamination and void. In conventional ultrasonic technique for the evaluation of FRP, the transducer should be contacted on FRP. Therefore, in this study, advanced conventional contacting method (AU) and non-contact technique using air-coupled transducer can make contact and noncontacting ultrasonic technique available in evaluation of FRP. This paper demonstrates first results using an acousto-ultrasonic technique.


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