On-Line Corrosion Monitoring of Plate Structures Based on Guided Wave Tomography Using Piezoelectric Sensors

Rao, Jing; Ratassepp, Madis; Lisevych, Danylo; Caffoor, Mahadhir Hamzah; Fan, Zheng

doi:10.3390/s17122882

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“…The method can achieve more accurate and robust damage imaging results. Fan et al [24] used a self-designed tomographic imaging system based on a piezoelectric sensor array to achieve an accurate reconstruction of corrosion damage in the plate structures. Shen et al [25] used tomographic imaging technology to monitor the cracks in the holes of structures and compared the tomographic imaging performance under different sensor array configurations.…”

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Sector Piezoelectric Sensor Array Transmitter Beamforming MUSIC Algorithm Based Structure Damage Imaging Method

Wang

Qiu

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Elastic-wave-based structural health monitoring technology has a broad application potential for its sensitivity and ability to achieve regional monitoring. For structures with large damping and specific shapes, the traditional damage monitoring method is limited by the sensor arrangement area and affected by low signal-to-noise ratios, so it is difficult to accurately locate the damage in a structure. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a damage monitoring method based on a sector piezoelectric sensor array for multiple signal classification algorithm. By arranging two sector piezoelectric sensor arrays that are suitable for a specific structure, the damage scattering array signal under the multi-excitation source was obtained and synthesized, the signal-to-noise ratios were improved, and the damage location accuracy was thus improved. The effectiveness of the method was verified by monitoring the damage in a circular bonded structure with a metal ring. Compared with the damage localization methods based on the traditional single excitation source multiple signal classification algorithm, path imaging and delay-sum imaging, this method can achieve better damage location and has a higher localization accuracy.

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Sector Piezoelectric Sensor Array Transmitter Beamforming MUSIC Algorithm Based Structure Damage Imaging Method

Wang

Qiu

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Sensors

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“…Employing ultrasonic-guided waves is one of the most commonly used techniques for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of the oil, gas, chemical and petrochemical industries, due to its key advantages such as rapid screening with 100% cross-section coverage, long-distance and large-range diagnostic capability and high detection efficiency [1][2][3][4][5]. A Appl.…”

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Numerical Investigation of Locating and Identifying Pipeline Reflectors Based on Guided-Wave Circumferential Scanning and Phase Characteristics

Liu

Tang

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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The methodology based on reflected guided-wave by a reflector associated with an increase or a decrease in the cross-sectional area has the challenge of determining their location and identity. This paper presents a numerical investigation of a method for locating and identifying the reflector based on guided-wave circumferential scanning and phase characteristics. To determine the axial and circumferential positions of the reflector within the pipeline, the procedures of the guided wave-based circumferential scanning were presented, including data preprocessing, median filter, image smoothing and binary processing. Through theoretical analysis, we obtained the phase relationship between the guided-wave excitation signal and reflection signals generated by a reflector, such as corrosion, crack, weld and support, which caused the change in the cross-sectional area. Consequently, an algorithm based on the phase characteristics was proposed to determine the change and type of reflector. The spatial distances were calculated between the guided wave excitation signals with different phases and the concerned reflection signals, subsequently identifying the change and type of the reflector by comparing the distance values. An identification index named the reliable index for the character of the reflector (RICR) was defined to evaluate the reliability of the predicted results. Numerical and finite element simulation validations of the proposed method were performed. It has been found that if RICR was larger than 1.05, the results predicting the reflector type were reliable. The proposed method was found to be superior relative to the conventional correlation coefficient method according to the numerical results. Finally, the simulation results demonstrated that the proposed method could be potentially applied for locating and identifying reflectors in pipelines.

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“…Compared with diffraction tomography, FWI allows higher order diffraction and scattering and has the same theoretical resolution limit [24]. Literature [14,25,26] also report that more accurate inversion results are achieved when this method is applied to monitor the plate-like materials. The major limitation of this method is its computational complexity and cost, and it can be acceptable as an offline imaging method.…”

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A Sparse Model of Guided Wave Tomography for Corrosion Mapping in Structure Health Monitoring Applications

Zhang

2019

Applied Sciences

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To improve the reconstruction image spatial resolutions of ultrasonic guided wave ray tomography, a sparse model, based on the differences between the inspected and original slowness of the ultrasonic guided waves propagating in the plate-like or pipe-like materials, is first proposed in this paper. Unlike the conventional ultrasonic guided wave tomography whose reconstruction image resolutions are limited by an underdetermined linear model, analyses show that our new model, although it is also underdetermined, can give the optimal solution of the reconstruction image when the constraints on the sparsity of the slowness difference distribution are valid. The reason for the validation of the sparse constraints on the corrosions of the materials is explained. Based on our new model, a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) approach to do the thickness change mapping of a structure health monitoring (SHM) application is then formulated. Analyses also show that the visible artifacts can be avoided using our method, and the spatial resolutions of reconstruction image by our approach can further be improved by increasing the number of grids in the calculation. The approach is validated by experimental work on an aluminum plate. It is also shown that compared to the conventional ray tomography, the presented method can achieve a relatively high spatial resolution, with good suppression of artifacts.

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On-Line Corrosion Monitoring of Plate Structures Based on Guided Wave Tomography Using Piezoelectric Sensors

Cited by 51 publications

References 44 publications

Sector Piezoelectric Sensor Array Transmitter Beamforming MUSIC Algorithm Based Structure Damage Imaging Method

Sector Piezoelectric Sensor Array Transmitter Beamforming MUSIC Algorithm Based Structure Damage Imaging Method

Numerical Investigation of Locating and Identifying Pipeline Reflectors Based on Guided-Wave Circumferential Scanning and Phase Characteristics

A Sparse Model of Guided Wave Tomography for Corrosion Mapping in Structure Health Monitoring Applications

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