Experimental and numerical investigations on the dispersion behaviors of wedge waves propagating along wedges with bilinear cross sections

Wedge waves (WW) are guided acoustic waves propagating along the tip of a wedge, with energy tightly confined near the apex. This study is focused on exploring the dispersion behaviors of WW propagating along a bilinear wedge (BW). A BW is wedge with a cross section of two apex angles, compared with a linear wedge (LW) having a single apex angle. In the literature, many studies regarding to the dispersion behaviors of ASF modes are reported for LW, but not for BW. In this study, a combined experimental and numerical stidy is used to investigate the dispersion behavior of WW propagating in BW’s. It is found out that WW in a BW is a result of mode coupling between the two WW’s corresponding to simple wedges with the two apex angles of the BW.