High-resolution defect imaging of composites using delay-sum-and-square beamforming algorithm

Author:

Zhao JunhuiORCID,Zhang Haiyan,Zhang HuiORCID,Chen Yiting,Zhu Wenfa,Zhu QiORCID

Abstract

Abstract High-resolution ultrasonic imaging for defects in anisotropic multilayer carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) is challenging because of the severe ultrasonic attenuation and the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of echoes. The existing delay-multiply-and-sum (DMAS) beamforming outperforms delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming in resolution, but with high computational complexity and energy loss. This paper presents a novel delay-sum-and-square (DSAS) beamforming algorithm. It takes full advantage of spatial coherence of captured data in the receiving and transmitting apertures. The incoherent components caused by background noise are suppressed during the imaging. The back-wall reflection method (BRM) is used to correct the direction-dependent velocity. Full-matrix data is experimentally captured and processed on four different CFRP samples. Compared with DAS and DMAS, DSAS has a significant improvement in resolution, SNR and contrast. It demonstrates excellent defect characterization and noise suppression capability with only 17.4% computation time of DMAS.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments

Publisher

IOP Publishing

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