Integrating AI in NDE: Techniques, trends, and further directions

IF 4.5 2区材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING

Ndt & E International Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI:10.1016/j.ndteint.2025.103442

Eduardo Pérez , Cemil Emre Ardıç , Ozan Çakıroğlu , Kevin Jacob , Sayako Kodera , Luca Pompa , Mohamad Rachid , Han Wang , Yiming Zhou , Cyril Zimmer , Florian Römer , Ahmad Osman

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Abstract

The digital transformation is fundamentally changing our industries, affecting planning, execution as well as monitoring of production processes in a wide range of application fields. With product line-ups becoming more and more versatile and diverse, the necessary inspection and monitoring sparks significant novel requirements on the corresponding Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) systems. The establishment of increasingly powerful approaches to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) may provide just the needed innovation to solve some of these challenges.

In this paper we provide a comprehensive survey about the usage of AI methods in NDE in light of the recent innovations towards NDE 4.0. Since we cannot discuss each NDE modality in one paper, we limit our attention to magnetic methods, ultrasound, thermography, as well as optical inspection. In addition to reviewing recent AI developments in each field, we draw common connections by pointing out NDE-related tasks that have a common underlying mathematical problem and categorizing the state of the art according to the corresponding sub-tasks. In so doing, interdisciplinary connections are drawn that provide a more complete overall picture.

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在NDE中集成AI：技术、趋势和进一步的方向

数字化转型正在从根本上改变我们的行业，影响着广泛应用领域的生产过程的规划、执行和监控。随着产品种类的日益多样化，必要的检测和监控对相应的无损检测系统提出了新的要求。建立越来越强大的方法来整合人工智能（AI）可能会为解决其中一些挑战提供所需的创新。在本文中，我们根据NDE 4.0的最新创新，对NDE中AI方法的使用进行了全面的调查。由于我们不能在一篇论文中讨论每一种NDE方式，我们将注意力限制在磁法、超声、热成像以及光学检查上。除了回顾每个领域最近的人工智能发展之外，我们还通过指出具有共同潜在数学问题的nde相关任务，并根据相应的子任务对最新技术进行分类，从而得出共同的联系。这样，跨学科的联系被绘制出来，提供了一个更完整的整体画面。

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Ndt & E International 工程技术-材料科学：表征与测试

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

9.50%

发文量

121

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： NDT&E international publishes peer-reviewed results of original research and development in all categories of the fields of nondestructive testing and evaluation including ultrasonics, electromagnetics, radiography, optical and thermal methods. In addition to traditional NDE topics, the emerging technology area of inspection of civil structures and materials is also emphasized. The journal publishes original papers on research and development of new inspection techniques and methods, as well as on novel and innovative applications of established methods. Papers on NDE sensors and their applications both for inspection and process control, as well as papers describing novel NDE systems for structural health monitoring and their performance in industrial settings are also considered. Other regular features include international news, new equipment and a calendar of forthcoming worldwide meetings. This journal is listed in Current Contents.