Accurate sizing of closed crack using nonlinear ultrasound of SPACE with high voltage transformer pulser technique

Tsuyoshi Mihara, Goki Konishi, Yusuke Miura, Hitoshi Ishida

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Abstract

As the improvement of the detectability of crack tip echo in ultrasonic inspection with low S/N ratio, we developed SPACE (Subharmonic Phased Array Crack Evaluation) as a subharmonic ultrasound imaging technique. Although the pulser of conventional SPACE could incident large displacement ultrasound to a crack, availability of the SPACE measurement was limited for only closed crack. In order to use the SPACE system for wider industrial inspection fields, we have been developed the larger displacement ultrasound incidence equipment considering the crack opening supposed to be several nm to sub- μm in order. In this study, we developed new SPACE combining high voltage transformer to a low cost pulser. The availability of the developed system in ultrasonic inspection was investigated using several model cracks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation - Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen Noise and Micromagnetic Testing
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
Pages727-732
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9780735412118
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2013, Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen and Micro-Magnetics, ICBM 2013 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 2013 Jul 212013 Jul 26

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1581 33
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Other

Other40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2013, Incorporating the 10th International Conference on Barkhausen and Micro-Magnetics, ICBM 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period13/7/2113/7/26

Keywords

  • Inspection
  • Nonlinear Acoustics
  • SCC
  • SPACE
  • Transformer Coil

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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