Journal
WAVE MOTION
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages 979-993Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2013.04.004
Keywords
Ultrasound tomography; Guided waves; Non-destructive testing; Thickness mapping
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- EPSRC [EP/F00947X/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H040072/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H040072/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Quantifying wall thickness in the presence of corrosion damage allows the residual life of plate-like structures to be determined. Guided wave tomography is a solution which allows an area to be imaged with data from an array of ultrasonic transducers around the defect, using tomographic methods to establish wall thickness. We exploit the dispersive nature of Lamb waves travelling through the wall to convert the thickness variation into wave velocity variations, providing a mechanism to determine thickness from a velocity reconstruction. HARBUT (the Hybrid Algorithm for Robust Breast Ultrasound Tomography) has been developed to give high-resolution, accurate and robust reconstructions of ultrasonic velocity through the breast; in this paper we extend the method to generate thickness maps for guided wave tomography. By iterating HARBUT we show that we can improve the accuracy of reconstructions of the small, high contrast defects expected from corrosion, allowing estimates of thicknesses within 1 mm for a 10 mm plate from both simulated and experimental data. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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