Research Article

Interdigital Piezopolymer Transducers for Time of Flight Measurements with Ultrasonic Lamb Waves on Carbon-Epoxy Composites under Pure Bending Stress

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Zoom on sensors applied to sample of CFRP. 1: longitudinal gage, 2: transversal gage, 3: gage used to compensate the thermal drift of the other two, 4: portion of the same CFRP sample used for compensation gage without mechanical stress, 5: IDT for signal transmission (Tx-IDT), 6: IDT for signal detection (Rx-IDT), and 7: CFRP sample.