IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/hin/jnlmpe/358128.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Warped Wigner-Hough Transform for Defect Reflection Enhancement in Ultrasonic Guided Wave Monitoring

Author

Listed:
  • Luca De Marchi
  • Emanuele Baravelli
  • Giampaolo Cera
  • Nicolò Speciale
  • Alessandro Marzani

Abstract

To improve the defect detectability of Lamb wave inspection systems, the application of nonlinear signal processing was investigated. The approach is based on a Warped Frequency Transform (WFT) to compensate the dispersive behavior of ultrasonic guided waves, followed by a Wigner-Ville time-frequency analysis and the Hough Transform to further improve localization accuracy. As a result, an automatic detection procedure to locate defect-induced reflections was demonstrated and successfully tested by analyzing numerically simulated Lamb waves propagating in an aluminum plate. The proposed method is suitable for defect detection and can be easily implemented for real-world structural health monitoring applications.

Suggested Citation

  • Luca De Marchi & Emanuele Baravelli & Giampaolo Cera & Nicolò Speciale & Alessandro Marzani, 2012. "Warped Wigner-Hough Transform for Defect Reflection Enhancement in Ultrasonic Guided Wave Monitoring," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2012, pages 1-15, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:358128
    DOI: 10.1155/2012/358128
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2012/358128.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2012/358128.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1155/2012/358128?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:358128. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mohamed Abdelhakeem (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.hindawi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.