Flaw Inspection of Aluminum Pipes by Non-Contact Visualization of Circumferential Guided Waves using Laser Ultrasound Generation and an Air-Coupled Sensor

Our group had previously proposed a generation laser scanning system for visualizing ultrasound propagation on an object as an animate image, which provided visible and quick flaw inspection. Recently, we improved this system to make it completely non-contact by employing an air-coupled ultrasound t...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2014-01, Vol.520 (1), p.12009-4
Main Authors: Urabe, K, Takatsubo, J, Toyama, N, Yamamoto, T, Tsuda, H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum
Carbon fiber reinforced plastics
Circumferences
Flaw detection
Inspection
Lamb waves
Laser applications
Physics
Pipe
Pipes
Plastic plates
Scanning
Transducers
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasound
Visualization
Wave propagation
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Summary:Our group had previously proposed a generation laser scanning system for visualizing ultrasound propagation on an object as an animate image, which provided visible and quick flaw inspection. Recently, we improved this system to make it completely non-contact by employing an air-coupled ultrasound transducer as a receiver instead of a contact transducer, and demonstrated the successful visualization of Lamb waves propagating on aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced plastic plates, as well as the detection of flaws. In this research, we applied this system to the non-contact visualization of circumferential guided waves on aluminum pipes. It was shown that circumferential guided waves propagating in opposite directions could be visualized separately, and that a flaw such as a slit or thinning on the inside surface of the pipe could be successfully detected even when it existed outside the scanning area.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/520/1/012009