Quantitative corrosion monitoring and detection using ultrasonic Lamb waves

Grant A. Gordon; Russ Braunling

doi:10.1117/12.600356

17 May 2005 Quantitative corrosion monitoring and detection using ultrasonic Lamb waves

Grant A. Gordon, Russ Braunling

Proceedings Volume 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.600356
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Corrosion is a major problem for airframe operators. For the aircraft industry in general, the direct costs of corrosion are estimated at $2.2 billion. As part of their strategy to control corrosion, airframe operators constantly seek to improve their ability to anticipate, manage and identify corrosion activity. Motivated by the need for an on-line real-time corrosion-monitoring tool for industry and aircraft a prototype system and analysis approach is presented. The tool employs ultrasonic Lamb waves along with a dispersion compensated synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) to detect emerging pitting damage. In order to develop an automated detection approach the noise sources of the SAFT processed defect maps were examined and modeled. The random noise was found to be neither stationary nor normally distributed. Locally varying Weibull distribution parameters are used to characterize the image noise. An algorithm is developed to quantify the uncertainty in the corrosion detection and to allow assignment of a constant false alarm probability to any region of the monitored area.

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Grant A. Gordon and Russ Braunling "Quantitative corrosion monitoring and detection using ultrasonic Lamb waves", Proc. SPIE 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.600356

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