Improving Industrial Inspections Combining High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Arrays and Coded Excitation

Elmergue  Germano; Morteza Tabatabaeipour; Ehsan Mohseni; Anthony  Gachagan; Lam Kwok Ho; David  Hughes

Improving Industrial Inspections Combining High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Arrays and Coded Excitation

Elmergue Germano, Morteza Tabatabaeipour, Ehsan Mohseni, Anthony Gachagan, Lam Kwok Ho, David Hughes

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Abstract

In this study, a commercial 20-MHz 64-element 1 mm-pitch flexible linear array, developed by Novosound Ltd, was evaluated using two different coded excitation techniques to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio and operability on flat and complex-geometry components. Chirp and Golay coded excitation techniques were employed with an arbitrary waveform generation tool to excite the array. A pulse compression technique consisting of a matched filter was implemented, weighted by a Chebyshev window for Chirp excitation.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 5 May 2023
Event	60TH ANNUAL BRITISH CONFERENCE ON NDT (NDT 2023) - Northampton, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Sept 2023 → 14 Sept 2023 Conference number: 60 https://www.bindt.org/events-and-awards/ndt-2023/

Conference

Conference	60TH ANNUAL BRITISH CONFERENCE ON NDT (NDT 2023)
Abbreviated title	BINDT2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Northampton
Period	12/09/23 → 14/09/23
Internet address	https://www.bindt.org/events-and-awards/ndt-2023/

Keywords

ultrasonic
Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing
Flexible transducer
Pulse compression
NDE
NDT
Coded Excitation
complex geometry components

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Improving Industrial Inspections Combining High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Arrays and Coded Excitation

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