Friday, February 14, 2014

Flaw characterization in ultrasonic non-destructive testing method using exponential modeling

CATEGORY: NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 6-9 May 2013, Page(s): 1676 – 1679, Minneapolis, MN
Flaw characterization in ultrasonic non-destructive testing method using exponential modeling
Ravanbod, H. ; Karimi, F. ; Amindavar, H.
Electron. Res. Inst., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Determining the shape, area, volume, and direction of flaws using ultrasonic imaging of metallic pieces, is a method estimating the severity of their defects. Researchers employ a variety of methods to process ultrasound images. Methods include spectral analyses, statistical, mathematical and intelligent methods. Each method has advantages and disadvantages.
Prony algorithm, which has been used as a parametric method for extracting exponential components of a signal, has several applications in signal modeling, system identification and classification. After simulating pieces of oil pipeline, researchers employed digital Wavelet transform to reduce the noise of simulated images. Then the two dimensional Prony algorithm is applied to the images. After estimating the poles and residue of the signal using the Prony method, some features are extracted from these components in order to detect and classify defects. The method not only locates a flaw position in the image, but also simultaneously estimates the depth and area of the defect.
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