Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface

Metal materials will produce fatigue cracks under long-term cyclic loading. It is difficult to fully image the topography of defects with the current mainstream ultrasound imaging technology. The Reverse time migration (RTM), which has extensive application in geophysical exploration, can image comp...

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Main Authors: Junjie Chang, Congcong Wang, Yuan Tang, Wenchao Li
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description Metal materials will produce fatigue cracks under long-term cyclic loading. It is difficult to fully image the topography of defects with the current mainstream ultrasound imaging technology. The Reverse time migration (RTM), which has extensive application in geophysical exploration, can image complex geological structures. This research introduces the RTM into the field of ultrasonic non-destructive testing. Through numerical simulation, it is concluded that the RTM based on no absorbing boundary can make the defect contour clearer, but the RTM based on the absorbing boundary can make the image contrast metric higher. In order to obtain the RTM results with high contrast metric and clear defect contours, the solution given in this study is to increase the migration aperture. Then this research discusses the influence of different cross-correlation imaging condition on the imaging quality. And compared with the prevailing total focusing methods (TFM), it shows the superiority of the RTM to the bottom opening crack (BOC) imaging. Finally, the RTM was used to complete the imaging of the curved and bifurcated cracks with complex structures. And after reducing the number of ultrasonic transducers, there are still good imaging results, which can reduce the waste of resources and energy.
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spelling doaj-art-d86de188b6fe4e7f92314efbf7b4202c2025-08-20T02:33:52ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-01105559556710.1109/ACCESS.2021.31401199667541Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the SurfaceJunjie Chang0Congcong Wang1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-5367Yuan Tang2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-781XWenchao Li3College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Nondestructive Testing, Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, ChinaCollege of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Precision Opto-Mechatronics Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, ChinaMetal materials will produce fatigue cracks under long-term cyclic loading. It is difficult to fully image the topography of defects with the current mainstream ultrasound imaging technology. The Reverse time migration (RTM), which has extensive application in geophysical exploration, can image complex geological structures. This research introduces the RTM into the field of ultrasonic non-destructive testing. Through numerical simulation, it is concluded that the RTM based on no absorbing boundary can make the defect contour clearer, but the RTM based on the absorbing boundary can make the image contrast metric higher. In order to obtain the RTM results with high contrast metric and clear defect contours, the solution given in this study is to increase the migration aperture. Then this research discusses the influence of different cross-correlation imaging condition on the imaging quality. And compared with the prevailing total focusing methods (TFM), it shows the superiority of the RTM to the bottom opening crack (BOC) imaging. Finally, the RTM was used to complete the imaging of the curved and bifurcated cracks with complex structures. And after reducing the number of ultrasonic transducers, there are still good imaging results, which can reduce the waste of resources and energy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9667541/Absorbing boundary conditionsmigration aperturecross-correlation imagingcomplex cracks
spellingShingle Junjie Chang
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Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
IEEE Access
Absorbing boundary conditions
migration aperture
cross-correlation imaging
complex cracks
title Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
title_full Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
title_fullStr Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
title_full_unstemmed Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
title_short Numerical Investigations of Ultrasonic Reverse Time Migration for Complex Cracks Near the Surface
title_sort numerical investigations of ultrasonic reverse time migration for complex cracks near the surface
topic Absorbing boundary conditions
migration aperture
cross-correlation imaging
complex cracks
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9667541/
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