A Comprehensive Guide to Lamb Waves

This book presents the fundamental concept of Lamb wave propagation and its application for damage detection in metals and composites. The editor has taken utmost care to include a range of applications of Lamb waves, in the linear and nonlinear domains, in this book. Various damage location algorithms making use of linear characteristics of Lamb waves and a few case studies making use of nonlinear characteristics Lamb waves for damage detection are presented in a simple-to-understand way. Readers will find detailed descriptions for experiments, simulation, and signal processing. The last chapter that focuses on the evaluation of fatigue-induced material nonlinearity would help readers to understand the complex applications of Lamb waves. The forthcoming books in this series would include state-of-the-art applications of guided waves for damage detection, material characterization, and estimation of the remnant useful life of engineering structures.