Non-destructive testing operations simulation in virtual reality environment

Abstract

This article considers the prerequisites for creating virtual educational simulators for non-destructive testing teaching. Currently, virtual reality technologies are most widely used in the training process of engineers and workers directly engaged in production during complex and responsible operations, including the control of products and materials. Approaches to the creation and application of virtual reality in the development and use of a digital radiography simulator for non-destructive testing of materials and products are announced. It is noted that the developed software and algorithmic solutions allow to judge their effective applicability in industry as the results of R&D and various computational experiments. Constructing and processing images technology of digital twins’ samples, which allows to obtain image close to the results of metal samples’ X-ray film is considered. Basic physical principles underlying the developing of a digital model are formalized. The results of obtaining digital X-ray images are presented. Prospects for expanding the applicability range of virtual reality software and hardware solutions in non-destructive testing educational process are touched upon.

Process virtualization for X-ray images obtaining in industrial radiography during nuclear power plant NDT specialists training

“…Modern achievements in the field of augmented (AR) and virtual reality, despite the systematic development, due to a number of factors, have not occupied the mass consumer segment of an additional professional education market. Making a training room of a virtual laboratory of the radiation type of non-destructive testing shall save time and money for organizing and performing the educational process for training centers, increase safety, and also contribute the creation of local training clusters by reducing the total cost of ownership of an educational equipment and premises [18].…”