Alexandre Beausoleil, J. Walter, O. Arés, M. Brassard
{"title":"Automated misalignment correction method for ultrasonic inspection of CFRP parts","authors":"Alexandre Beausoleil, J. Walter, O. Arés, M. Brassard","doi":"10.58286/28130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28130","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Ultrasonic inspection of large CFRP components requires an accurate positioning of the part with respect to the equipment’s coordinate system to ensure normal incidence during the scan. Fulfilling this condition often implies impractical and time-consuming manual adjustments of the part. A new method is proposed for ultrasonically determining the position of a complex part installed in an inspection system, and automatically correcting the offline-programmed path instead of iteratively and manually adjusting the part’s position. Two application strategies of our method are presented and experimentally tested on a complex CFRP landing gear component. The results suggest that even the simplest strategy using a planar learning scan of a randomly positioned part can produce C-scans of equal quality as those obtained with the manual alignment, in a fraction of the time that this process usually takes.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121446198","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}
Alex Justen, T. C. Dourado, Ericles de Jesus dos Santos, M. K. M. de Assis, R. Mayworm, Renildo Lopes da Silva, G. C. Morais, S. Miqueleti, R. Costa-Felix
{"title":"Metrological characterization of the longitudinal ultrasonic velocity of cylindrical rock cores","authors":"Alex Justen, T. C. Dourado, Ericles de Jesus dos Santos, M. K. M. de Assis, R. Mayworm, Renildo Lopes da Silva, G. C. Morais, S. Miqueleti, R. Costa-Felix","doi":"10.58286/28091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28091","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The correlation of the use of ultrasonic velocity in rock cores has been a fundamental resource in the analysis of geoscientists and rock engineers. The general rule is that ultrasonic velocities in typically heterogeneous materials, such as composites, rocks, and soils, present greater dispersion than homogeneous ones. This behaviour, although expected due to the more significant internal variation in the composition of its matrix, requires the application of a more cautious measurement protocol, mainly for samples with low parallelism. This work presents a metrological measurement protocol to determine the longitudinal ultrasonic velocities of these materials and their respective measurement uncertainties. The evaluation of the proposed protocol was applied to four samples of cylindrical migmatite rocks, each 76 mm in diameter. The frequency used was centred at 500 kHz. The determination of the transit time in each sample was made from the difference between the first internal reflection of the sample and the direct signal from the receiver. Samples with approximate heights of 51 mm, 62 mm, 77 mm and 101 mm were used. Their faces were divided into four quadrants. Measurements were taken around the geometric centre of the part and in each of the four quadrants. Fivedimensional measurements were performed for each quadrant, and ten transit time measurements were for each of the five defined regions. Due to the low parallelism of the parts, a protocol was adopted where the global uncertainty of each part was increased to that of the part with greater uncertainty. From the results of this research, it was noted that the effect of low parallelism tends to increase the dimensional uncertainty measurements and, consequently, the sample measurement uncertainty values.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121463333","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}
J. Frisch, C. Blaensdorf, A. Hempfer, Marisa Pamplona-Bartsch, C. Grosse
{"title":"Active thermography to look beneath the surface of a historic German aircraft","authors":"J. Frisch, C. Blaensdorf, A. Hempfer, Marisa Pamplona-Bartsch, C. Grosse","doi":"10.58286/28137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28137","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Thermography is a well-established non-destructive testing technique in materials research and defect detection. In addition, it is used on cultural heritage in the form of buildings and paintings. This contribution explores the utilisation of active thermography on an object of technical heritage – a historic aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Me 163 b, as a part of an exhibition in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Unfortunately, the appearances of many exhibits in museums have been altered before or during their time with the museum and are not in a historically accurate condition. Furthermore, the active service history is often not documented in detail or might have been lost. Both features are equally important in the presentation of information on a displayed item and destructive techniques cannot be employed on historic objects. Hence a non-destructive, non-contact way of examination was chosen in the form of thermography. With the help of phase analysis, flash thermography is also an invaluable tool for the evaluation of layered systems and can differentiate between paint layers. During the research presented herein, traces of abrasion and chemical stripping of older paint layers were visible. This complicates the compilation of sufficient information for a historically accurate restauration with any technique. Nonetheless, flash or pulsed thermography proves to be capable of finding not only identifying markings, defects, and different paint layers, but also the inner workings and substructure of the object under investigation.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131111684","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":"Comparison of grain structure models for wave propagation analysis in centrifugally cast stainless steel","authors":"M. Nagai, Y. Natsume, Shan Lin","doi":"10.58286/28101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28101","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Centrifugally cast stainless steel (CASS) is widely used in primary coolant piping of pressurized water reactor plants because of its high corrosion resistance and high strength. An in-service inspection based on ultrasonic testing (UT) has to be conducted for weld joints of primary coolant piping on the basis of JSME Rules on Fitness-forService for Nuclear Power Plants. However, it is difficult to detect and size flaws in CASS components with high accuracy because of the following reasons: Ultrasonic waves are scattered and attenuated due to coarse grains, and anisotropic and heterogeneous properties in CASS lead to ultrasonic beam skewing. Numerical simulations are useful and reasonable ways for better understanding the ultrasonic wave propagation behavior in CASS. To effectively achieve this, the simulation model should include a three-dimensional (3D) grain structure. In this study, we modeled three kinds of the solidification grain structures of centrifugally CASS. One is obtained by using a cellular automaton method, another consists of many hexagonal columns with the same dimensions, and the other is transversely isotropic material. Then these structures were fed into an explicit finite element model for simulating wave propagation and the simulated results were compared with those measured by a laser Doppler vibrometer. Through the comparison, we investigated the applicability of these three kinds of solidification grain structure models to simulation for wave propagation.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131377960","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}
M. Machado, Wagner Sabor, Ruben Tasnicenco, Daniel Damásio, Telmo G. Santos, C. Vidal
{"title":"Characterization of Microchannels Produced by Friction Stir Channeling: An Experimental Study","authors":"M. Machado, Wagner Sabor, Ruben Tasnicenco, Daniel Damásio, Telmo G. Santos, C. Vidal","doi":"10.58286/28176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28176","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Friction Stir Channeling (FSC) is a recent and innovative solid state manufacturing technology that allows, in a single pass, the opening of continuous internal channels in monolithic components and can be used in the mold and heat exchanger industries. However, the development of reliable Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) for the characterization of the channels is a major challenge. The focus of this work is the non-destructive characterization of micro channels, and the main goal was to experimentally validate which NDT techniques can be used to identify the presence of microchannels, their regularity along the section, and also their location, size, and path. Five NDT techniques were studied: digital radiology; eddy currents; ultrasounds; thermography; and dye penetrants. These techniques were applied to specimens with linear and curvilinear channels. The specimens were produced using tool pins with 0.5 mm diameter which obtained channels with 0.4 mm width and depths of 0.53 mm. Digital radiology and ultrasounds were effective in detecting channels regardless of its dimensions. Eddy currents did not allow to confirm the exclusive presence of the channels due to microstructural changes caused by the FSC process. Thermography using cold fluid injection was not successful in the channel’s characterization due to the extremely low flow. The dye penetrants confirmed the presence of the channels of all dimensions due to the liquid having traveled along the entire path of the curvilinear channel without reaching the surface.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134019558","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}
Julian Ehrler, M. Kornely, Julian Kattinger, M. Kreutzbruck, C. Bonten
{"title":"CT-Analysis of the Melting Area in\u0000the Fused Filament Fabrication Process","authors":"Julian Ehrler, M. Kornely, Julian Kattinger, M. Kreutzbruck, C. Bonten","doi":"10.58286/28063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58286/28063","url":null,"abstract":"\u00003D printing has established itself in the 21st century as the process for producing prototypes and very small series. In the plastics sector, the fused filament fabrication (FFF) process is used in particular. A plastic filament is melted in a nozzle and a component is built up layer by layer. As with all manufacturing processes, there is an interest in continuously optimizing and improving the FFF process. One possibility is based on process simulations, which enable a better understanding of the entire process. Afterwards a validation of the simulation with the real process is always necessary. In the case of FFF, this validation was so far only possible to a limited extent. In this work, a method is presented that enables a non-destructive investigation of the melting behavior during the printing process. For this purpose, a 3D printer nozzle with an extruder was integrated into an X-ray computed tomography system. Thus, a computed tomography scan (CT scan) can be performed during the extrusion process. By using filaments with high absorbent tungsten, a sufficient contrast can be created between the metal nozzle and the plastic filament, which allows an analysis of the melting behavior. This setup allows to distinguish between the solid filament area and the melt area, as well as to determine contact between the filament and the nozzle wall. In this way, the simulations can be validated and nozzle geometries to be improved in the future by means of improved simulation tools.\u0000","PeriodicalId":383798,"journal":{"name":"Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122103648","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}