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Reconstructing Flaw Image Using Dataset of Full Matrix Capture Technique

Full Matrix Capture 데이터를 이용한 균열 영상화

  • 이태훈 (한국수력원자력(주) 중앙연구원) ;
  • 김용식 (한국수력원자력(주) 중앙연구원) ;
  • 이정석 (한국수력원자력(주) 중앙연구원)
  • Received : 2017.01.10
  • Accepted : 2017.02.03
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

A conventional phased array ultrasonic system offers the ability to steer an ultrasonic beam by applying independent time delays of individual elements in the array and produce an ultrasonic image. In contrast, full matrix capture (FMC) is a data acquisition process that collects a complete matrix of A-scans from every possible independent transmit-receive combination in a phased array transducer and makes it possible to reconstruct various images that cannot be produced by conventional phased array with the post processing as well as images equivalent to a conventional phased array image. In this paper, a basic algorithm based on the LLL mode total focusing method (TFM) that can image crack type flaws is described. And this technique was applied to reconstruct flaw images from the FMC dataset obtained from the experiments and ultrasonic simulation.

일반 위상배열초음파 시스템은 배열된 개별의 소자에 시간지연을 적용함으로써 초음파 빔을 조향하고 초음파 이미지를 구성한다. 반면, full matrix capture(FMC)은 위상배열탐촉자에서 가능한 모든 송수신 조합의 A-scan 데이터 전체를 수집하는 신호 수집 방법이며, FMC 데이터의 후처리를 통해 기존 위상배열초음파와 동등한 이미지뿐만 아니라 기존 위상배열초음파에서 구현하지 못하는 다양한 이미지를 합성할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는, 균열 형태의 결함을 영상화할 수 있는 LLL mode total focusing method(TFM)에 대한 기본 알고리즘을 기술하고, 실험 및 초음파 시뮬레이션을 통해 수집된 FMC 데이터에 대해 이 기법을 적용하여 결함의 이미지를 합성하였다.

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