Listening to the Plate: How Lamb Waves Quietly Reveal the Structure of Materials
Guided waves like Lamb modes are reshaping how we inspect, model, and understand solid materials — all by listening to vibrations within the structure itself.
If you’ve never heard of Lamb waves, you’re not alone. Though they’ve been known to physicists and engineers for over a century, they remain surprisingly underdiscussed outside specialized fields like non-destructive testing, ultrasonics, and solid mechanics. But behind the scenes, Lamb waves are playing a crucial role — helping us understand how materials behave, age, and break, all through the language of wave motion.