Method and system for determining material properties using ultrasonic attenuation

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method and system is disclosed for determining a property of an object by measuring ultrasonic attenuation. With the proposed method a measured ultrasonic interaction signal of the object is compared with a reference signal produced using the same generation and detection setup but using a reference part. The reference ultrasonic signal has low attenuation and exhibits equivalent diffraction properties as the object with respect to a broadband ultrasonic pulse. The difference is attributable to the attenuation of the object. The attenuation as a function of frequency the attenuation spectrum, is fitted to a model to obtain a parameter useful for identifying one of the many properties of …