{"title":"Analysis and Optimization Design of Rectangular Coil as Uniform Current Source","authors":"Peng Gao, Xuan Wang, Weifei Niu, Yang Yang","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681954","url":null,"abstract":"The axis of the rectangular coil is parallel to the surface of the conductor under test, and a uniform eddy current field can be generated on the surface of the conductor. This structure is widely used in eddy current testing. In this paper, a finite element simulation model of a uniform eddy current rectangular coil was built using finite element method (FEM) to obtain the sensitivity of a uniform eddy current rectangular coil with different heights, lengths, widths, and thicknesses. The relationship between the geometric dimensions and sensitivity was obtained by function fitting. Through simulation analysis, it was found that increasing coil height and length can increase coil sensitivity. Keeping the coil turns per unit area constant, increasing the thickness of the coil increases the coil’s sensitivity. Increasing the width of the coil, the sensitivity of the sensor increases first and then decreases, so there is a maximum range. The methods and conclusions presented in this paper provide a reference for the optimal design of uniform eddy current rectangular coils.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method for seeking the optimum probing frequency in vibro-acoustic modulation testing","authors":"B. Liu, Jun Yang, T. Gang","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681963","url":null,"abstract":"Vibro-acoustic modulation is a non-destructive testing technique used in nonlinear acoustic methods for defects detection. However, the optimum probing frequency is still a problem in many cases. In this study, a swept-signal was used as probing excitation, the modulation intensity distribution in a wide probing frequency range was measured with metal beam structures. The results indicate that when the probing frequency was higher than a critical value, the modulation intensity cannot be easily predicted with existing modulation model. Finite element analysis indicated that it may be caused by the high modal density and strong coupling between closely spaced modes in high probing frequency range. A new method was proposed to predict the modulation intensity distribution, which is also based on the previous model, while it only needs the high frequency structure response curves. The results demonstrated that this method was effective in the applied probing frequency range, and the efficiency of Vibro-acoustic modulation can be further improved.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129273877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Forward Compensation Algorithm of Water-immersed Total Focusing Ultrasound Imaging","authors":"Yong-Jun. Li, Zefeng Wang, Chaoyong Peng, Jian-qiang Guo","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681961","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome the problem of long imaging time caused by the calculation of the refraction point in the double-layer medium ultrasonic imaging, the algorithm in this paper based on the radial calculation of the ultrasonic array element and the radiation arc spline compensation is adopted. And the water-immersed ultrasound total focusing phased-array imaging is discussed. First, according to the half-power beam angle corresponding to the ultrasonic transducer array element, the dividing line of the refraction point is divided, and then Bresenham’s line scanning technology is used to determine all the pixels on the refraction line, and further the delay rule is adopted to determine the pixel point in the transmission process, and finally the reconstructed image is generated. This method not only avoids the large amount of time it takes to iteratively solve the refraction point, but also applies it to the full capture technique and the total focusing imaging, which can save the calculating time of the refraction point to the utmost, thus effectively improving the detection efficiency and imaging quality. Through experimental verification, the efficiency of this method is improved by two orders of magnitude compared to the reverse iteration method in 64-element immersed ultrasound total focusing imaging, and the imaging quality is improved slightly.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125497277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Research on Stress Gradient for HIP in Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing Technology","authors":"Quan-wen Li, Chunguang Xu, Zhi-xiang Li","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681987","url":null,"abstract":"It is found in the inspection that bonding beryllium and copper together with two kinds of metals can lead to bad bonding, which seriously affects the safe operation of the equipment. In this paper, the residual stress distribution of the bonding block (beryllium side) at different depths is detected by using a probe of 15MHz, 10MHz, 7.5MHz, 5MHz, 4MHz. According to the propagation law of the critical refraction longitudinal wave and the ultrasonic detection system of the critical refraction longitudinal wave, the residual stress distribution of the bonding block (beryllium side) at different depths is detected. This shows that the critical refraction longitudinal wave with different frequencies can reflect the residual stress at different depths. By using this rule, the ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of the stress gradient distribution along the depth of the surface of the bonding block can be made. The effect of stress gradient distribution on the bonding block is further investigated.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126786007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiang Wan, Xuhui Zhang, Hongwei Fan, M. Dong, H. Ma
{"title":"Numerical Perspective on Static Component Generation from Primary Lamb waves Propagating in a Plate with Quadratic Nonlinearity","authors":"Xiang Wan, Xuhui Zhang, Hongwei Fan, M. Dong, H. Ma","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681960","url":null,"abstract":"Under the discipline of nonlinear ultrasonics, in addition to second harmonic generation, static component generation is another frequently used nonlinear ultrasonic behavior in non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) communities. However, most previous studies on static component generation are mainly based on using longitudinal waves. It is desirable to extend static component generation from primary longitudinal waves to primary Lamb waves. The static component generated from longitudinal waves is cumulative. When extending the static component generated from the longitudinal waves to Lamb waves, a major concern is that whether the dispersive nature of Lamb will affect the cumulative of the static component or not. In this paper, cumulative effect of static displacement component from different primary Lamb wave modes is investigated. Our study results show that the static components generated from the primary S0, A0 and S1 modes are cumulative regardless of whether the phase velocity of the primary and secondary waves is matched or not. This observation indicates that the static component overcomes the limitations of the traditional nonlinear Lamb waves satisfying phase velocity matching condition to achieve cumulative second harmonic generation. This nature also enables the primary Lamb waves excited at a low center frequency to generate static component used for inspecting large-scale structures with micro-scale damages.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122584950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation on qualitative detection of defects with multi-mode total focusing method","authors":"S. Jin, Chu Wang, Shuailin Liu, Li Lin","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681953","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-mode total focusing method (TFM) is applied to overcome the limitation that defect type is difficult to be accurately determined with conventional ultrasonic testing. The phased array transducer connected with wedge is employed to implement electronic scan and receive the multiple reflected waves generated from defect surface. The signals are post-processed with delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming algorithm to reconstruct images for the TTT case and obtain defect morphology for qualitative detection. The carbon steel models with 5.0 mm vertical crack and ĭ0.5 mm side-drilled holes (SDHs) having center-to-center spacing of 5.0 mm were detected with multi-mode TFM by simulation in this paper. The defect types were distinguished effectively from imaging results compared with conventional TFM, and the positioning and quantitative errors were no more than 8.4%. The multi-mode TFM is appropriate for the qualitative recognition of defects, especially for the cracks with gap.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134541889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New System for Defects Inspection of Boiler Water Wall Tubes Using a Combination of EMAT and MFL","authors":"Shu-juan Wang, Pu Zhao, Zhengyang Qu, K. Wang","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681967","url":null,"abstract":"As the main part of the boiler, the water wall tube which runs on hazardous environment may lead to serious boiler accidents, causing of the tubes’ failure. For this reason, inspecting the defects on the water wall tube comprehensively is extremely required. However, single traditional NDT inspection method is limited in terms of the ability of identifying different kinds of defects. In order to meet the requirement of full-scale inspection, in this paper, a new system is designed using a combination of the electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) and the magnetic flux leakage (MFL) technology. In this new system, EMAT takes advantage of the horizontal magnetic field that is used for MFL detection to excite the ultrasound. Under this circumstance, the excitation mechanism of the EMAT is different from the general mechanism that is mainly based on the Lorentz-force. After experiment, the new system can effectively measure the remaining wall thickness and identify different kinds of defects including pinholes and circumferential cracks with the sensor being moved outside the tubes.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115016470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chengguang Fan, Lei Yang, Yongliang Chen, Yong Zhao
{"title":"Fast time reversal with multiple signal classfication for ultrasonic array imaging","authors":"Chengguang Fan, Lei Yang, Yongliang Chen, Yong Zhao","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681959","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the fast ultrasonic array imaging based on time reversal with multiple signal classification (TR-MUSIC) is presented and introduced into the area of ultrasonic Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) for imaging defects in solids. TR-MUSIC is based on the full matrix capture data, obtained by firing each element of an ultrasonic array independently, and collecting the data with all elements. Due to the limited calculation speed of current computers, a large matrix of data can result in long post-processing time, which is not suit for the scenarios when real-time imaging is needed. The fast TR-MUSIC imaging proposed in this paper is achieved via selecting a number of array elements instead of using all of them for emitting and receiving ultrasonic signals. Its performance is experimentally demonstrated in terms of post-processing time and quality of ultrasonic image. The experimental results in solids with different noise levels show that the proposed method can reduce the post-processing time when the quality of ultrasonic image holds.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126147103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Ultrasonic Imaging for Arbitrarily Shaped Interface Based on Virtual Source","authors":"Yong Gan, Guo Chen, Chao Lu, Yao Chen","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681980","url":null,"abstract":"When the components with arbitrarily shaped are detected by the ultrasonic imaging test, the coupling medium such as immersion or wedge is unavoidable used for ensuring the coupling condition. In this state ultrasonic wave will propagate in the arbitrarily shaped two-media interface between coupling medium and component. For the traditional ultrasonic imaging method which the sound velocity is considered constant, the above condition would cause the wrong position of defects in the image. To overcome the problem, a method combining virtual source (VS) and synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) was applied. Firstly, the sound propagation time of the first interface echo of each elements were measured. Then a series of virtual sources at the two-media interface were created by the time of flight (TOF) of two consecutive elements. Secondly, in virtue of the virtual sources, the two-segment sound propagation path from emitting elements to virtual sources and from here to focus points were respectively calculated. Last each point of the imaging region was focused by the delay and sum process of SAFT. The result showed the defect location of component were displayed accurately in the VS-SAFT image.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129422234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peng Tian, Fanxing Li, Gui-gang Yin, Da-kui Wang, Song Hu, Wei Yan
{"title":"Stress-deflection angle measurement of the aircraft wings using a biaxial inclination angle sensor","authors":"Peng Tian, Fanxing Li, Gui-gang Yin, Da-kui Wang, Song Hu, Wei Yan","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681983","url":null,"abstract":"The flight pose of an aircraft is affected seriously by the stress-deflection angles of aileron and tail fin. Traditional manual measurement suffers from various error sources. Here, we propose a novel high precision measuring method. A biaxial inclination angle sensor is used to calculate the unit-normal-vector of the measuring plane. Levelling is the first and necessary step to make zero for X and Y axes. Those values of the two axes are eliminated by the space coordinate transformation between rotation shaft and rotary surface, meanwhile, the changing value of Z axis is utilized to figure out the space stress-deflection angle. The proof-of-concept experiments verify that the improved automation and precision can be achieved by the proposed technique. Furthermore, the measurement is not constrained by the shape of the curved surface of the object. Those advantages make the method suitable in space deflection angle measurement of giant space rotation structure, especially in aerospace field.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126808185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}