Ultrasonic Phased Array Inspection for Gas Pressure Welds Joint of High Speed Railway

• Autorzy: Lu C. , Deng D. , Li L.

Warianty tytułu

PL

Ultradźwiękowa matryca fazowa do nieniszczącego badania jakości połączeń spawanych dla kolei dużych prędkości

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Ultrasonic phased arrays offer many advantages for industrial inspection due to increased flexibility over methods involving single-element probes. This paper will compare and contrast two previously-developed methods for the inspection of gas pressure rail welds involving phased arrays: the swept sector scan and the total focusing method, with particular emphasis on the latter. The total focusing method requires the acquisition of the full data set of time-domain signals from every possible send-receive combination in an ultrasonic array and the computation of time delay laws that will allow focusing at the post-processing stage. While applying conventional single probe ultrasound tests methods to detect the gas pressure rail welds, it is needed to use various beam angles for different detecting regions, resulting in long time and low efficiency of testing process. In comparison, ultrasonic phased array technique has the advantage of flexibly adjusting scan angle so as to improve testing efficiency. By using the CTS-602 type phased array instrument and trails on the gas pressure welding rail joint sample with artificial defects, the reasonable inspection parameters and testing programs could be determined, Experiments results show that the ultrasonic phased array inspection provides excellent test quality and good test efficiency. Based on combination of S-scan and B-scan plotted into 2-D isometric part, the defects features could be reconstructed and measured into a soft package. Comparison between A-scan plotted data and S-scan image data of defect sizes and position are also presented.

PL

Przedstawiono fazowa matrycę ultradźwiękową do przemysłowego badania nieniszczącego. Porównano różne systemy do badania połączeń spawanych w systemach kolejowych. System wymaga zebrania całego zestawu danych z matrycy ultradźwiękowej a następnie przetwarzania numerycznego danych. W proponowanym systemie nie jest konieczne badanie spawu pod wieloma kątami co zwykle jest czasochłonne.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

terms-rail; gas pressure welds; ultrasonic phased array; non-destructive testing

PL

badania nieniszczące; badania ultradźwiękowe; jakość spawu

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT
• Czasopismo: Przegląd Elektrotechniczny
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: R. 88, nr 1b
• Strony: 173--176
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 16 poz., il., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Lu C.

autor

Deng D.

autor

Li L.

• Key Lab of Nondestructive Testing (Ministry of Education), Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China,

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