System for determining the angle of impact of an object on a str

Details System for determining the angle of impact of an object on a str System for determining the angle of impact of an object on a str

1992-06-17

1993-03-02

Pihulic, Daniel T.

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Distance or direction finding

By combining or comparing signals

G01S 380

Patent

active

051915588

ABSTRACT:
A method for determining the angle of impact of an object on a thin-walled structure which determines the angle of impact through analysis of the acoustic waves which result when an object impacts a structure. Transducers are placed on and in the surface of the structure which sense the wave caused in the structure by impact. The waves are recorded and saved for analysis. For source motion normal to the surface, the antisymmetric mode has a large amplitude while that of the symmetric mode is very small. As the source angle 22 increases with respect to the surface normal, the symmetric mode amplitude increases while the antisymmetric mode amplitude decreases. Thus, the angle of impact is determined by measuring the relative amplitudes of these two lowest order modes.

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