Zastosowanie analizy falkowej w defektoskopii wiroprądowej z impulsowym prądem wzbudzenia

W publikacji przedstawiono zastosowanie przekształcenia falkowego do analizy sygnałów uzyskanych w wyniku badań metali nieferromagnetycznych z wykorzystaniem zjawiska prądów wirowych techniką PEC. Badania przeprowadzono na próbkach metali i stopów o znanej konduktywności z wadami wzorcowymi w formie nacięć o znanych (zmierzonych) wymiarach geometrycznych. Zarejestrowane przebiegi napięć wyjściowych z przetwornika wiroprądowego poddano analizie z wykorzystaniem transformat falkowych ciągłej i dyskretnej.

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In the paper there are presented the results of an experimental research oriented towards solving defectoscopy problems applying continuous and discrete wavelet transform (CWT and DWT) for pulsed eddy current response analysis. The investigations has been performed on some sets of categories of material flaws made of different metals of, with various depth, width and regular/non regular shapes fabricated in form surface and subsurface defects. Detecting and recognizing selected types of flaws and classifying them due to derivation of distinguished features of the tested materials has been performed in an environment of MATLAB Wavelet Toolbox ver. 5.2 in the framework of Wavelet Analyzer functionality. The certain part of analysis was made out with Multiple 1D tool and Regression Estimation 1-D support taking advantage of their facilities. In fact some families of signal records exhibited correlation between lag versus reference signal and flaw properties, while in the other cases the amplitude or shape of the signal was the crucial thing. The proposed approach seems as affective tool for PEC defectoscopy and defectometry.