Huthwaite P
Imperial College London , Mechanical Engineering, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Proc Math Phys Eng Sci. 2016 Nov;472(2195):20160643. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2016.0643.
Producing accurate thickness maps of corrosion damage is of great importance for assessing life in the petrochemical industry. Guided wave tomography provides a solution for this, by sending guided waves through the region of interest, then using tomographic imaging techniques to reconstruct the thickness map, importantly eliminating the need to take measurements at all points across the surface. However, to achieve accurate maps, the imaging algorithm must account for the way in which the guided waves interact with corrosion defects, and the complex scattering which occurs. Traditional approaches have exploited the dispersive nature of guided waves: a velocity map is produced from a dataset, then converted to thickness using the dispersion relationship. However, these relationships are derived for plates of constant thickness, which is not the case in the majority of defects, causing significant inaccuracies to exist in the images. This paper develops a more sophisticated inversion solution which accounts for the full-guided wave scattering, enabling more accurate images with resolution better than a wavelength, compared with two wavelengths previously. This is demonstrated with simulated and experimental data. The speed and stability of the algorithm in the presence of random noise and systematic errors is also demonstrated.
生成精确的腐蚀损伤厚度图对于评估石化行业中的使用寿命至关重要。导波层析成像通过将导波发送穿过感兴趣区域,然后使用层析成像技术重建厚度图,为解决此问题提供了一种方法,重要的是无需在整个表面的所有点进行测量。然而,为了获得精确的地图,成像算法必须考虑导波与腐蚀缺陷相互作用的方式以及发生的复杂散射。传统方法利用了导波的色散特性:从数据集中生成速度图,然后使用色散关系将其转换为厚度。然而,这些关系是针对厚度恒定的板推导出来的,而大多数缺陷并非如此,这导致图像中存在显著的不准确性。本文开发了一种更复杂的反演解决方案,该方案考虑了全导波散射,与之前的两个波长相比,能够实现分辨率优于一个波长的更精确图像。这通过模拟和实验数据得到了证明。还展示了算法在存在随机噪声和系统误差时的速度和稳定性。