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Design and Application of Partial Immersion Focused Ultrasonic Transducers for Austenitic Weld Inspection
by Yuan Zhang, Zixing Qin, Shizhou Luo, Jeong Hyunjo and Shuzeng Zhang
Sensors 2022, 22(7), 2671; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22072671 - 30 Mar 2022
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Austenitic stainless steel is a widely used material in the industry, and the welding technique enables stainless steel components to have different shapes for different applications. Any flaws in the weld will degrade the performance of the austenitic component; thus, it is essential [...] Read more.
Austenitic stainless steel is a widely used material in the industry, and the welding technique enables stainless steel components to have different shapes for different applications. Any flaws in the weld will degrade the performance of the austenitic component; thus, it is essential to ultrasonically and nondestructively test flaws in welds to ensure service safety. Recently, weld inspection has been performed using contact transducers, but missed detections or false positives for flaws in welds usually occur due to a poor coupling condition in the detection, a low signal-to-noise ratio, and instantaneous noises. In this study, a partial immersion focused (PIF) ultrasonic transducer is designed and used for austenitic weld inspection to address the above issues. The detailed design and manufacture of the PIF transducer are described, and the advantages of the transducer are shown by comparing the results detected using different kinds of transducers. In addition, in order to suppress false positives, a B-image method optimized using a time-dependent threshold is proposed. Experiments are performed to detect flaws in a welded specimen. All the artificial flaws are evaluated using the developed transducer and the proposed method, but minor flaws are mis-detected when planar transducers are used, verifying the method proposed in this paper. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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