Investigation on the elimination of striations in NDE of glass fiber composites

Glass fiber composites are widely used due to their unique performance advantages. However, defects in glass fiber composites can significantly affect their performance, making nondestructive evaluation necessary. During the X-ray spectral imaging of glass fiber composites, the 0/90° cross-stacking mode of glass fiber cloth results in irregular horizontal and vertical stripe noise, which seriously reduces the clarity of defect detection. Therefore, an appropriate algorithm is required to remove the noise. In this study, by analyzing the Fourier spectrum of X-ray spectral images of glass fiber composites, it was found that the stripe information is concealed in the vertical and horizontal bright lines in the middle of the Fourier spectrum image. A novel cross-sector filter was designed, and a stripe noise removal algorithm based on the cross-sector filter was proposed. The degree of the filter’s central angle can be adjusted according to the distribution of the stripe noise in the frequency domain, which removes the noise without losing much useful image information.