This thesis investigates the use of a combined finite element and perfectly matched layer approach in modeling guided elastic wave motion in infinite plates and cylinders and its potential applications to non-destructive evaluation. Underlying principles of the per-fectly-matched, absorbing layer are demonstrated on one-dimensional wave propagation in a semi-infinite elastic rod. Feasibility of using the perfectly matched layer as absorbing boundary condition in the finite-element modeling of guided elastic wave propagation and scattering is studied for the canonical problem of shear horizontal wave motion in isotropic plates. Numerical re-sults in this study are validated against exact analytical solutions. Excellent agreement has motivated the endeavour to take the technique to the next level of pressure, shear-vertical wave motion in isotropic and transversely isotropic plates. Time-domain, finite-element formulation of the perfectly matched layer for pressure, shear-vertical wave motion was validated through comparisons with semi-analytical lit-erature data and reciprocity checks. Numerical implementation of the model was em-ployed in studying the effect of crack presence on the time of arrival in a pitch-catch, non-destructive inspection arrangement. Predictions made confirmed previously-reported experimental findings. Extensions into three-dimensional, Cartesian and cylindrical spaces were validated against reported data. Practical examples of wave scattering in damaged concrete beams, oil and gas pipelines, and composite shells demonstrated the potential use of the proposed model in simulating elastic-wave based non-destructive inspection. Up to 80 % of the computational time needed to run an extended-mesh, finite-element model can be saved by introducing the perfectly-matched, absorbing layer to the finite-element model as the current thesis proposes. This significant saving in computational time by the proposed FE-PML model can accelerate the production of artificial neural network training data or help tackle complicated non-destructive testing applications.

This thesis investigates the use of a combined finite element and perfectly matched layer approach in modeling guided elastic wave motion in infinite plates and cylinders and its potential applications to non-destructive evaluation. Underlying principles of the per-fectly-matched, absorbing layer are demonstrated on one-dimensional wave propagation in a semi-infinite elastic rod. Feasibility of using the perfectly matched layer as absorbing boundary condition in the finite-element modeling of guided elastic wave propagation and scattering is studied for the canonical problem of shear horizontal wave motion in isotropic plates. Numerical re-sults in this study are validated against exact analytical solutions. Excellent agreement has motivated the endeavour to take the technique to the next level of pressure, shear-vertical wave motion in isotropic and transversely isotropic plates. Time-domain, finite-element formulation of the perfectly matched layer for pressure, shear-vertical wave motion was validated through comparisons with semi-analytical lit-erature data and reciprocity checks. Numerical implementation of the model was em-ployed in studying the effect of crack presence on the time of arrival in a pitch-catch, non-destructive inspection arrangement. Predictions made confirmed previously-reported experimental findings. Extensions into three-dimensional, Cartesian and cylindrical spaces were validated against reported data. Practical examples of wave scattering in damaged concrete beams, oil and gas pipelines, and composite shells demonstrated the potential use of the proposed model in simulating elastic-wave based non-destructive inspection. Up to 80 % of the computational time needed to run an extended-mesh, finite-element model can be saved by introducing the perfectly-matched, absorbing layer to the finite-element model as the current thesis proposes. This significant saving in computational time by the proposed FE-PML model can accelerate the production of artificial neural network training data or help tackle complicated non-destructive testing applications.

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Metal dusting is a kind of catastrophic corrosion phenomenon that can be observed in several of petrochemical processes. It occurs on iron-, nickel- and cobalt-base metals in carbonaceous atmospheres at high temperature when gaseous carbon activity is higher than one. The process is particularly rapid for ferritic alloys The aim of this project was to compare the dusting kinetics of pure iron and a 2.25Cr-1Mo alloy steel under CO-H2-H2O atmosphere at 650??C. Polished (3??m) samples of iron and the steel were exposed to flowing CO-H2-H2O gas atmospheres at 650??C, when the gases were supersaturated with respect to graphite. The partial pressure of CO was varied between 0.25 and 0.9 atm, and the carbon activity was varied from 2.35 to 16, in order to obtain a series of experimental conditions. In most experiments, pO2 was less than 7.37E-24 atm, and no iron oxide could form. However, Cr2O3 would always have been stable. When exposed to these gases, both iron and steel developed a surface scale of Fe3C which was buried beneath a deposit of carbon, containing iron-rich nanoparticles (the dust). Examination by Scanning Electron Microscopy allowed the observation of fine and coarse carbon nanotubes, and also spiral filaments. However, the morphology of the graphitic carbon was not sensitive to pCO and aC. Moreover, the carbon deposit was gas permeable, allowing continuing gas access to the underlying metal. At a fixed=4.5, the carburizing rate clearly increased with CO content from 0.25 to 0.68 atm. However, increasing the CO content to higher value led to decreased rates, indicating that carburizing rate reaches a maximum value at pCO=0.68 atm. When pCO was fixed at 0.25 atm and 0.68 atm, and carbon activity was varied. The induction period was extended by the formation of protective oxide layers at low values of carbon activity (aC= 2.35 and 2.55) where pO2 exceed the iron oxide formation value. For other reaction conditions, the carbon uptake rate for iron and steel did not increase with aC. The present work showed that the carbon deposition rates were not proportional to pCO or pCOpH2. Instead, the rate was affected by the partial pressure of all three reaction gases, and the carbon uptake rate for both materials could be expressed at r=k1pCOpH2+k2pCO2+k3pH22 and the rate constant k3 has a negative value, corresponding to coke gasification. From XRD analyses, it was found that cementite was the only iron-containing phase in the dusting product. The cementite particles acted as catalysts for carbon deposition from the gas. The same deposition process at the surface of the cementite layer led to its disintegration, thereby producing the particles. This disintegration process was faster on the steel than on pure iron. Consequently, the rates of both metal wastage and coke accumulation were faster for the steel. It is concluded that chromium and molybdenum do not stabilize the carbide but accelerate its disintegration process. It is suggested that Cr2O3 fine particles in the cementite layers provide more nucleation sites in the cementite layer on steel, explaining its more rapid dusting kinetics. However, appropriate methods of proving this assumption, such as TEM and FIB, are required.

Bibliography: leaves 189-195. / xii, 197 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This study investigates feedforward active control of harmonic vibratory power transmission in simple structures, theoretically and experimentally. The structures investigated are a beam, a plate and a cylinder. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997?

Errata pasted onto front end-paper. / Includes bibliographical references. / xv, 593 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the peeling mechanism in plated beams and develops analytical procedures to quantify the shear peeling strength of steel plated beams.. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-139).

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references.