Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 3744: Wavenumber Imaging of Near-Surface Defects in Rails using Green ’s Function Reconstruction of Ultrasonic Diffuse Fields

Sensors, Vol. 19, Pages 3744: Wavenumber Imaging of Near-Surface Defects in Rails using Green’s Function Reconstruction of Ultrasonic Diffuse Fields Sensors doi: 10.3390/s19173744 Authors: Hui Zhang Haiyan Zhang Jiayan Zhang Jianquan Liu Wenfa Zhu Guopeng Fan Qi Zhu Wavenumber imaging with Green’s function reconstruction of ultrasonic diffuse fields is used to realize fast imaging of near-surface defects in rails. Ultrasonic phased array has been widely used in industries because of its high sensitivity and strong flexibility. However, the directly measured signal is always complicated by noise caused by physical limitations of the acquisition system. To overcome this problem, the cross-correlations of the diffuse field signals captured by the probe are performed to reconstruct the Green’s function. These reconstructed signals can restore the early time information from the noise. Experiments were conducted on rails with near-surface defects. The results confirm the effectiveness of the cross-correlation method to reconstruct the Green’s function for the detection of near-surface defects. Different kinds of ultrasonic phased array probes were applied to collect experimental data on the surface of the rails. The Green’s function recovery is related to the number of phased array elements and the excitation frequency. In addition, the duration and starting time of the time-windowed diffuse signals were...
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