Tag: Mechanics

Sparse Wavenumber Recovery in Anisotropic Composites Repository

Guided wave imaging is a cornerstone technique in structural health monitoring (SHM), especially for composite materials. But composites are anisotropic—meaning wave speeds and behaviors vary with direction—which makes interpreting wave propagation challenging.

This CodeOcean capsule presents the algorithm and tools for Sparse Wavenumber Recovery (SWR) developed by Soroosh Sabeti, which leverage compressed sensing and sparse signal processing to efficiently extract anisotropic wavenumber content from limited measurements.


July 15, 2025 0

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.


May 16, 2025 0