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The sensitivity of the propagation of an elastic wave to changes in the microstructural details of a material is well known.1 In particular, numerous experiments have shown that the attenuation of the wave is sensitive to the inclusions, voids, cracks, grain boundaries, twin boundaries, interphase boundaries, magnetic domain walls, dislocations, substitutional impurities of a material. For attenuation studies in metals, ceramics and polycrystals, three formulas, each for different wavelength regimes, are generally used in the quantitative interpretation of experimental results.1–3 If λ is the wavelength of the elastic wave and <D> is the average grain diameter, then in the Rayleigh regime (λ≫D), α = A1<D>3λ4, in the stochastic regime (λ≃D), α = A2<D>λ2, and in the diffusive regime (λ≪D), α = A3/<D>-1. By fitting the data to these formulas, one tries to infer <D>.
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Gubernatis, J.E., Domany, E. (1983). Effects of Microstructure on the Speed and Attenuation of Elastic Waves: Formal Theory and Simple Approximations. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, vol 2A. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3706-5_53
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