A guided ultrasonic imaging approach in isotropic plate structures using edge reflections

Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou; Brennan Dubuc; Salvatore Salamone

doi:10.1117/12.2219314

20 April 2016 A guided ultrasonic imaging approach in isotropic plate structures using edge reflections

Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, Brennan Dubuc, Salvatore Salamone

Proceedings Volume 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016; 98033I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219314
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

This paper presents an imaging technique to locate damage in plate-like structures by permanently attached piezoelectric transducers (PZT) capable to generate and receive guided ultrasonic waves. The technique is based on a model capable of predicting envelope of scattered waves. Correlations between the estimated scattered waves and experimental data are used for image reconstruction. The approach is validated on an aluminum plate and results are compared with two common imaging algorithms, that is, Delay and Sum (DS) and Minimum Variance (MV). Damage is simulated by placing two magnets on sides of the plate. It is shown that the inclusion of Lamb wave reflections improves the localization accuracy while making use of fewer number of sensors possible.

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Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou, Brennan Dubuc, and Salvatore Salamone "A guided ultrasonic imaging approach in isotropic plate structures using edge reflections", Proc. SPIE 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016, 98033I (20 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219314

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