La caractérisation non destructive de l’adhérence des structures du type couche sur substrat est un enjeu industriel et académique important. Ce type d’échantillon est en effet utilisé pour de nombreuses applications et sa durée de vie dépend en grande partie de la qualité d’adhérence des films au substrat. Celle-ci modifie sensiblement le comportement dispersif des ondes acoustiques de surface se propageant dans de ce type de structure. Pour générer et détecter ces ondes, un dispositif Ultrasons-Laser a été privilégié. Dans un premier temps, nous avons cherché à contourner les difficultés d’interprétation rencontrées habituellement dans le contrôle de l’adhérence par ondes acoustiques de surface. Les variations d’épaisseur de la couche peuvent en effet avoir une influence sur la dispersion des ondes comparable à celle due à l’adhérence. Pour ce faire, des films polymères dont l’épaisseur est quasi-constante sont employés et apposés sur un substrat en aluminium. Ces films possèdent en plus la propriété d’être transparents. Cela permet de focaliser l’impulsion laser générant les ondes acoustiques à travers le film, directement à la surface du substrat et de placer ainsi la source acoustique à l’interface film-substrat. L’influence de la position de la source sur le comportement dispersif des ondes acoustiques de surface et par conséquent sur le contrôle de la qualité d’adhérence est alors étudiée expérimentalement ainsi qu’au travers de simulations par éléments finis. Finalement, une caractérisation de l’adhérence de différents échantillons est effectuée grâce aux courbes de dispersion obtenues à l’aide de la méthode Matrix-Pencil appliquée aux résultats expérimentaux. En utilisant un algorithme d’inversion, les raideurs d’interface caractéristiques de l’adhérence des échantillons analysés sont estimées. / The non-destructive characterization of the adhesion of layer-on-substrate structures is an important issue in industrial and academic domains. This type of sample is indeed used for many applications and its lifetime depends mainly on the adhesion of the film to the substrate. This one changes significantly the dispersive behavior of the surface acoustic waves. To generate and detect these waves, a Laser-Ultrasonics setup has been used. First, we are looking to bypass the interpretation difficulties usually encountered in the control of adhesion by surface acoustic waves. Indeed, the layer thickness variations influence the dispersion of the waves in a similar way to the adhesion. Consequently, the polymer films used have a quasi-constant thickness and they are deposited directly on an aluminum substrate. In addition, these films are also transparent. It allows us to generate directly the acoustic waves on the substrate surface, at the interface between the film and the substrate, by focusing the laser pulse through the film. In this way, the influence of the source location on the dispersive behavior of the surface acoustic waves and thus on the adhesion quality control may be studied experimentally and by using finite element simulations. Finally, a characterization of the adhesion of several samples is performed using the dispersion curves obtained applying the Matrix-Pencil method to the experimental results. An inversion algorithm allows us to estimate the interfacial stiffnesses corresponding to the adhesion of the samples.

The doctoral thesis focuses on signal representation in the time-frequency domain with constant resolution. In theoretical introduction the possibilities of displaying a signal in time and frequency are summarized. Attention is concentrated on comparison of short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD). The latter achieves a significantly better resolution, especially for a linearly modulated signal. The disadvantage of WVD, which is the presence of interferences resulting from the calculation of the instantaneous autocorrelation function, is described in detail. These interferences are due to the presence of multiple components in the signal or its non-linear modulation. Subsequently, several methods are discussed, which can suppress these interferences, but at the cost of resolution loss. One of the interference suppression methods is smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution. It is further used in this thesis for the analysis of interference suppression when various filtrations in the time-frequency plane are applied. Several signals with multiple components or various non-linear modulations are used. Based on the analysis, a method using a set of variously smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distributions is designed to estimate the time-frequency representation with high resolution and minimal interferences. To compare the results to other methods, the quantitative metrics used in the literature are compared. To select the appropriate one a new metric is suggested. It is applicable to simulated signals and uses mean square error. Based on the comparison, the Stankovi\' measure is selected as the most appropriate for comparing results. The selected metric is used to determine the appropriate minimal number of differently smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distributions. Using the selected metric, the proposed method is compared with other methods. These are STFT with optimized window length, S-method with optimized parameter and optimization method using radial Gaussian kernel (RGK). These methods are compared based on the set of signals previously used for interference suppression analysis. In addition, noises are added to the signals. Finally, the methods are also compared based on the real bat echo signal. In conclusion, the proposed method outperforms the compared methods in suppressing interference and resolution.