Development of pipe inspection equipment with guided waves is described in this study. Authors have developed a defect imaging technique, in which reflected guided waves from such reflective objects as defects and weld lines are detected with many sensors lining up in the circumferential direction and the waveforms are processed with mode extractio n technique and wave reconstruction. Pipe inspection equipment developing in this study has a function of the defect imaging as well as modal analysis of guide...
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Defect imaging technique with guided waves

Nonlinear ultrasonic imaging technique is applied for detection and sizing of tight cracks. Tight crack su rfaces are clapped and rubbed repeatedly by high-powered burst waves, thus higher and sub-harmonics are ge nerated. By using a band-pass or high-pass filter, the second and higher harmonic components are extracted from the received signals and the amplitude map is constructed. We can make the ultrasonic images of the cracked surface itself, by focusing the ultrasonic beams on peaks of rugged cracked s...
英字タイトル:
Imaging of Small Defects and Tight Cracks with Nonlinear Ultrasonics