Non-Destructive

Evaluation
Ultrasound
Team:
David DrozdTesting
Sean
Broderick
Rick Eckert
Joseph
Consultant:
Oagaro
Michael Ciocco
Project Manager:
Shreekanth

Introduction

Ultrasound Applications

NDE of metals and composites

Customers Needs

Internal Customer: Shreekanth Mandayam

Effective Composite Scanning to find defect geometry,

depth, and location

External Customer

Airplanes, Tanks, Sewer & Gas Pipelines

Future Marketing to airplane and pipeline manufacturers

Previous Work Done

Ultrasound Testing of Concrete

Objectives

Learn fundamentals in ultrasound testing

and ultrasound equipment
Image metal plates with known defects
and build ultrasound C-scan database
Scan Kevlar composites to find evidence
of disbonding and delaminations
Use Matlab for image processing to
estimate defect geometry

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Project Outline

Ultrasound Basic
Metal C-Scans
Kevlar Composites
Image Processing

Project Timescale

Immersion Ultrasound Test

Scanner controller & stepper motors
Station
Linear
actuators for
scanning

Immersion
tank

PC for
data acquisition
& processing

Ultrasound transducers

Test
specimen

Ultrasound Scanning Basics

Thru Transmission
vs. Pulse Echo
A-Scan and CScan
TOF and
Amplitude

A-Scan and Gate Settings

Settings

Detection Threshold: 40%, Gate Width: 14.46

us, Gate Start: 52.40us, Gain: 39db

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Project Outline

Ultrasound Basic
Metal C-Scans
Kevlar Composites
Image Processing

Project Timescale

Ultrasound Imaging of Coins

C-Scans of Metal Plates

5/16 thick metal
plate with 3mm
defect

5/16 thick metal

plate with 7.5 mm
defect

C-Scans of Metal Plates

thick
metal plate
with 3 mm
defect

thick
metal plate
with 6 mm
defect

thick
metal plate
with 7.5 mm
defect

C-Scans of triangle and circle

defects
3/8 thick plate
with 3/16 circle
defect

3/8 thick plate with

3/16 triangle defect

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Project Outline

Ultrasound Basic
Metal C-Scans
Kevlar Composites
Image Processing

Project Timescale

Kevlar

Kevlar Composites
Company located in Canada
There are 2 types of Kevlar:

Pretreated Kevlar
Non-Pretreated Kevlar

Delamination

Kevlar
First Scans of
Kevlar

Each scan 1x1

Starting from
The right corner

Non-Pretreated
Kevlar

Kevlar
Non-Pretreated
Kevlar

Kevlar
Pretreated Kevlar

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Project Outline

Ultrasound Basic
Metal C-Scans
Kevlar Composites
Image Processing

Project Timescale

Image Processing

Objective

Determine Geometry of Defects From

Experimental C-Scan Images
Use Fourier Descriptors to apply to
arbitrary defect geometries

Approach:

Use basic image processing techniques

to estimate image shape and size

Image Processing
Approach
Metal Specimen

C-Scan

Adjusted Image

Experimental Data
Metal Specimen
Original C-Scan

Histogram Balancing

Image Defect Geometry:

Actual

Image Smoothing

Length = 1 in.
0.85 in.
Width = 0.5 in.

Experimental
Length =
Width = 0.43

Image Processing Techniques

Random Defect Geometries

Determine Fourier Descriptors of perimeter of

any arbitrary shape
Insensitive to:

Translation
Rotation
Scale Changes

How to model?

Develop basic shape images and process

Circle, Rectangle, Triangle, Ellipse, etc.

Project Timescale

Future Planning

Continue Scanning

Build Database

Metal, Kevlar, Coins, etc.

Model Random Defect Geometries

Continue Processing Research
Research Paper / Competition

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Questions/Comments ?