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      Ultrasonic defect characterization using parametric-manifold mapping

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          The aim of ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation includes the detection and characterization of defects, and an understanding of the nature of defects is essential for the assessment of structural integrity in safety critical systems. In general, the defect characterization challenge involves an estimation of defect parameters from measured data. In this paper, we explore the extent to which defects can be characterized by their ultrasonic scattering behaviour. Given a number of ultrasonic measurements, we show that characterization information can be extracted by projecting the measurement onto a parametric manifold in principal component space. We show that this manifold represents the entirety of the characterization information available from far-field harmonic ultrasound. We seek to understand the nature of this information and hence provide definitive statements on the defect characterization performance that is, in principle, extractable from typical measurement scenarios. In experiments, the characterization problem of surface-breaking cracks and the more general problem of elliptical voids are studied, and a good agreement is achieved between the actual parameter values and the characterization results. The nature of the parametric manifold enables us to explain and quantify why some defects are relatively easy to characterize, whereas others are inherently challenging.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
                Proc. Math. Phys. Eng. Sci
                RSPA
                royprsa
                Proceedings. Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
                The Royal Society Publishing
                1364-5021
                1471-2946
                June 2017
                7 June 2017
                7 June 2017
                : 473
                : 2202
                : 20170056
                Affiliations
                Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Queens Building, University Walk , Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
                Author notes

                Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3787379.

                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0482-1514
                Article
                rspa20170056
                10.1098/rspa.2017.0056
                5493948
                28690410
                4b4a1c5f-6d79-4d55-aaa7-bef1a213fbf3
                © 2017 The Authors.

                Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 26 January 2017
                : 5 May 2017
                Funding
                Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266;
                Award ID: EP/L022125/1
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                June, 2017

                Physics
                ultrasonic non-destructive testing,defect characterization,parametric manifold
                Physics
                ultrasonic non-destructive testing, defect characterization, parametric manifold

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