Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol.40, No.7, 1628-1634, 2000
Nondestructive testing of polyaramide cables by longitudinal wave propagation: Study of the dynamic modulus
It has been observed that cables at different states of fatigue had their own speed of longitudinal propagation of acoustic waves (1). This speed can be measured with piezoelectric captors and is proportional to the square root of the sonic modulus. Our experiments, which have been carried out on Technora cables of diameter 2 mm, show that the modulus obtained from the wave speed has the same behavior in fatigue as the modulus obtained from tensile tests. Furthermore, our experiments also show that the residual strength in the cable is proportional to the modulus. A nondestructive control of cables can hence be made from these sonic modulus measurements.