Ultrasonic Data Compression and Analysis During Material Inspection

Part 3: Data Representation and Analysis; International audience; Ultrasonic inspection is nowadays widely used in material inspection to detect and locate internal defects. However, in case of large structures inspection, such as pipelines, vessel reactors etc., the amount of signals to acquire and interpret may be very important, especially in modern techniques that use image representations.In this article, a proposed algorithm to ultrasonic data selection and processing is described. Images will be replaced by 2 arrays that contain only the data regarding a detected defect. This allows avoiding the storage of useless received ultrasonic data, and simple pattern recognition techniques may be exploited to defect characterization. Document type: Part of book or chapter of boo

Ultrasonic Image Enhancement to Internal Defect Detection during Material Inspection

Ultrasonic waves are efficiently exploited to detect internal defects such as cracks and occlusions in non-destructive testing (NDT) of materials. In some automated procedures, emitter and receiver probes are displaced step by step and signals are displayed to form images that make diagnosis easier to interpret. However, too much images are unnecessarily stored when they correspond to safe zones (without presented defects). In this paper, we propose a method that enhances ultrasonic images quality in order to improve the discrimination between images containing or not a shape regarding a detected defect. The method is based on the adapted histogram equalization technique followed by morphological operations that erase all useless shapes on processed images

Ultrasonic Data Compression and Analysis During Material Inspection

Part 3: Data Representation and AnalysisInternational audienceUltrasonic inspection is nowadays widely used in material inspection to detect and locate internal defects. However, in case of large structures inspection, such as pipelines, vessel reactors etc., the amount of signals to acquire and interpret may be very important, especially in modern techniques that use image representations.In this article, a proposed algorithm to ultrasonic data selection and processing is described. Images will be replaced by 2 arrays that contain only the data regarding a detected defect. This allows avoiding the storage of useless received ultrasonic data, and simple pattern recognition techniques may be exploited to defect characterization