{"title":"Research on Improving Detection of Longitudinal Multiple Defects by Dual-layer Virtual Source Imaging","authors":"Yu Zhang, Xiaorong Gao, Menglin Zhao, Jianping Peng","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681949","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the difficulty of detecting the depth of the internal defects in the longitudinal region of the heavy haul and high speed rail welds, this paper studies a technique of ultrasonic virtual source imaging for detecting internal defects in dual-layer media. The numerical simulation model of phased-array sub-aperture virtual source ultrasonic transmission and receiving in dual-layer medium was established by Snell's rule. The experimental verification was carried out to realize the accurate detection of internal defects of a series longitudinal distribution in the standard test block. The results show that the algorithm can effectively improve the detection rate of multiple defects in the longitudinal distribution of standard test block and significantly increase the signal-to-noise ratio.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"184 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":"134355332","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}
Chaoyong Peng, Ai Wang, Jianping Peng, Xiaorong Gao
{"title":"Wayside Acoustic Diagnosis of Axle Box Bearing Based on Fault Feature Extraction Algorithm","authors":"Chaoyong Peng, Ai Wang, Jianping Peng, Xiaorong Gao","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681964","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the key components of railway vehicles, the operation condition of the axle box bearing has a significant effect on traffic safety. The wayside monitoring sound of train axle box bearing is an amplitude modulation and frequency modulation signal with complex train running noise. Although empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and some improved time-frequency algorithms have been proved to be useful in bearing vibration signal processing, it is hard to extract the bearing fault signal from serious trackside acoustic background noises by using those algorithms. Therefore, a kurtosis-optimization-based wavelet packet (KWP) feature extraction algorithm is proposed, as the kurtosis is the key indicator of bearing fault signal in time domain. After beamforming of microphone array, the assessment of KWP is conducted by comparing with exiting algorithms. The test results of 50 fault bearing data indicate that the KWP is more efficient than high frequency resonance technique (HFR) and EMD in an environment where authentic railway noise were present.","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":"121829321","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}
Yingchun Wu, B. Gao, Jian Zhao, Zewei Liu, Qin Luo, Yongsheng Shi, Longhui Xiong, G. Tian
{"title":"Induction Thermography for Rail Nondestructive Testing under Speed Effect","authors":"Yingchun Wu, B. Gao, Jian Zhao, Zewei Liu, Qin Luo, Yongsheng Shi, Longhui Xiong, G. Tian","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681985","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of high-speed and heavy haul of railway, flat and spalling are becoming serious in wheel tread and rail surface, it is a huge threat to the safety of passengers. A major concern in railway quality is the occurrence of micro-crack in the near surface on the railhead because of the rolling contact fatigue (RCF). It is of great significance to detect the RCF crack with high accuracy. This paper investigates micro-crack and Uolling contact fatigues (RCF) detection on the railhead using induction thermography under speed effect. A thermal imaging detection mechanism of a moving mode is studied. Both simulation of rail cracks and experiment of a rotating disk are conducted. The blurred image formation is explained and the deblurring method is proposed. Different inductive sensing architecture are compared and discussed.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"129 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":"127693707","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}
Yi-xin Hu, Juan Hao, Wanxin Yang, Canzhi Guo, Peng Jiang
{"title":"Motion point calculation method for robortic Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing","authors":"Yi-xin Hu, Juan Hao, Wanxin Yang, Canzhi Guo, Peng Jiang","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681988","url":null,"abstract":"The application of industrial robot technology to ultrasonic non-destructive testing technology can meet the requirements of high efficiency and high precision in the nondestructive testing process. The trajectory planning method and the calculation method of the motion point in robotic manipulator motion control technology are of great significance in automatic NDT. In this paper, the Staubli manipulator product is taken as the object. For the two cases in which the manipulator grips the workpiece and the manipulator grips the ultrasonic transducer in the ultrasonic detection process, the calculation methods of the corresponding motion points are respectively proposed and the correctness of the method was verified by ultrasonic nondestructive testing.","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":"132483039","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":"Effect of Temperature on Solid Ultrasonic Propagation Using Finite Element Method and Experiments","authors":"B. Hu, Yuhong Zhu, Chao Shi","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681981","url":null,"abstract":"Time of flight (TOF) is considered to be a sign of solid ultrasonic propagation. The more precise measurement of TOF is the better propagation of ultrasonic in solid we can get. Uncertainties associated with coupling fluids or positional offsets can be eliminated by permanently installed ultrasonic probes. However, the variations caused by temperature need to be considered during measurement of TOF, which makes it potentially possible to monitor the onset of material degradation such as stress modification. In this paper, firstly, the finite element models of ultrasonic propagation in aluminum and steel were respectively established under temperatures from 25°C to 200°C. An error of ultrasonic flight-time due to the change of the ultrasonic path caused by solid thermal expansion was corrected, which was implemented and its performance was compared with simulated and experimental measurements. The results show that the modified velocity equation can effectively reflect the effluence of temperature on ultrasonic flight-time and ultrasonic velocity up to 200°C. The TOF measurements maximum relative errors in aluminum and steel were respectively decreased to 0.4395% and 0.5204%.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"2016 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":"134176959","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}
Yi Jiang, Haitao Wang, G. Tian, Shuai Chen, Jiyuan Zhao, Qiang Liu, P. Hu
{"title":"Non-contact ultrasonic detection of rail surface defects in different depths","authors":"Yi Jiang, Haitao Wang, G. Tian, Shuai Chen, Jiyuan Zhao, Qiang Liu, P. Hu","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681948","url":null,"abstract":"Rail inspection using laser ultrasonic surface waves could provide a more reliable and efficient detection of surface cracks. This paper explored the interaction and propagation of Rayleigh waves with cracks which had a wide range of depths relative to the rail surface by finite element 2D model. A non-contact laser generation and detection system was established to detect depth defects. The time and frequency analysis of different depth defect signals are analyzed by simulation and experiment, and the quantitative evaluation of the surface defects in different depths are realized by fitting the relationship between damage factors - damage depths curve. It is found that surface waves are sensitive to shallow cracks and the larger the damage depth is, the larger the damage factor.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"43 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":"114830250","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 of Modified Absolute Arrival Time Technique for Measuring Surface Breaking Cracks","authors":"Xueping Jiang, J. Jia, X. Mao, Q. Han","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681956","url":null,"abstract":"Surface breaking cracks pose great risk to the security of steel structure equipment. It is very important to estimate the height and the orientation of surface breaking cracks accurately for the residual life evaluation of equipment. In this paper, a modified phased array ultrasonic absolute arrival time technique (AATT) for this purpose was proposed. It utilizes the absolute position of the tip diffraction echo and the corner reflection echo in a ultrasonic phased array S-scan image to estimate the crack height and the crack inclination angle. The height and the orientation of the surface breaking cracks was deduced with ray acoustic approximation. Both pencil approximation and Kirchhoff approximation were used to simulate the phased array ultrasonic S-scan image of the surface breaking cracks. The echo arrival time extracted from the S-scan image was used to calculate the height and the orientation of surface breaking cracks with AATT technique. The calculated result agree with the size of pre-set cracks in simulation. Proved that the AATT technique can be applied to measure the size of surface breaking cracks, especially in the testing from single side.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"4 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":"114225403","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 of PAUT on butt weld of EBW of SS for CFETR vacuum vessel","authors":"Yunpeng Fu, Jiefeng Wu, Zhihong Liu, Rui Wang, Beiyan Jiang","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681950","url":null,"abstract":"China fusion engineering experimental reactor (CFETR) port stub is made by electron beam welding (EBW) and the ultrasonic scan test and X-ray radiography were designed to conducting the stainless steel (SS) weld quality inspection. In order to overcome the disadvantages of traditional ultrasonic testing, Phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) technology has been introduced. Electron beam welding’s structure features has been introduced in this paper which based on the block of the theoretical calculation and the validation of practical method to verify the effectiveness of the selected probe and its signal-to-noise ratio satisfies the requirement of related standards. This experiment may provide a theoretical basis for subsequent processing design.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"19 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":"127898975","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":"Initial Architecture Design of Ultrasound Synthetic Aperture Imaging Based on FPGA","authors":"Haicheng Li, Lin Luo, Xiaorong Gao, Jin-long Li","doi":"10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FENDT.2018.8681979","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasound synthetic aperture imaging, in the A-SCAN data processing, consumes a lot of resources and takes a long time. It is difficult to achieve real-time imaging requirements. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) show advantages such as fast processing speed and strong parallelism for the ultrasonic synthetic aperture imaging platform. It provides a viable solution for real-time imaging. In this article, a new ultrasound synthetic aperture imaging structure is introduced, which reduces the resource consumption and improves the imaging efficiency. In this structure, the ultrasound imaging initialization structure is configured, and the index value is configured in the RAM using a memory initialization file, which reduces the square, extraction of a root and other operations in the hardware structure, and reduces the delay operation in the hardware structure. The symmetric relation exists between the index values of symmetric elements, the index values are reused to reduce the memory requirement. Perform functional descriptions using hardware description languages and perform performance tests on Altera Stratix IV FPGAs. According to 32-channel synthetic aperture imaging experiment, the use of index values for beamformer design improves the imaging efficiency and reduces the consumption of hardware resources under the premise of ensuring the ultrasound image and contrast.","PeriodicalId":113185,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Far East NDT New Technology & Application Forum (FENDT)","volume":"5 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":"133167265","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}