Evaluation of friction-welded aluminum-steel bonds using dispersive guided modes of a layered substrate

Abstract

In nondestructive evaluation the inspection of bond quality is a very important problem. In this paper we suggest an experimental method based on dispersion curve measurements for evaluating the quality of the bond between a layer and a substrate bonded by the inertia-friction welding process. The experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical calculations which show that the behavior of the lowest velocity modes is very sensitive to the interface conditions and to the quality of the bond.