THE INFLUENCE OF A CRITICAL ANGLE ON AN ORIENTATION OF RADIATION OF A SHEAR WAVE THE ANGLE BEAM PROBE

In a far field it is received asymptotic expression of displacement of the shear waves transmitted in the elastic environment by the angle beam probe in view of features of radiation of such waves under a angle of probe, coming nearer to the third critical. At sufficient remoteness from a critical corner this expression passes in received earlier in geometroacustical approximation. The estimations carried out for steel have shown, that for converters with nominal angles of probe 37 – 40 influence of this critical angle causes increase of an angle of registration of a maximum of the signal, observed earlier experimentally. This feature is influenced as distance up to points of registration of a shear wave, and with working frequency of the angle beam probe and its size piezoplate (width of the directivity characteristic).