Plastic Pipe Material

Classification using
Ultrasonic Testing
Student: Arun Kumar Gandlur
Supervisor: Dr. Sean Anderson
05, September 2014
Contents
Introduction
Experimental Setup
Feature Extraction
Classification Techniques
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
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Introduction
Background
Pipes and Plastics
Pipe-Inspection
Material Testing
Ultrasonic Testing
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Introduction
Objectives:
Review literature
Run Ultrasonic Test Experiments
Extract features of each Plastic
Develop Classifiers
Implement the Classifiers
Analyze and Compare the results.
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Experimental setup
Ultrasonic Test Rig
Transducer
Plastic Samples(Test 1)
ABS, PVC, HDPE, MDPE
Plastic Samples(Test 2)
PVC, HDPE, Acrylic
Computer with LabView
Container, Supports and
Weights

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Experimental setup
Working Principle
Attenuation



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Feature extraction
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Feature extraction
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Classification Techniques
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K-NN LDA
GP
Results- KNN
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Results
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Error in Prediction
using LDA
RatioA vs DeltaA
ABS 35%
HDPE 25%
MDPE 25%
PVC 0%
Average 21.25%
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ABS 5%
HDPE 10%
MDPE 5%
PVC 0%
Average 5%
Error in Prediction
using GP
ABS 0
HDPE 5%
MDPE 0%
PVC 0%
Average 1.25%
RatioA vs DeltaA
RatioA vs DeltaA vs DeltaT
Different Thicknesses
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PVC-4mm 0%
HDPE-4mm 0%
Acrylic-4mm 0%
PVC-6mm 0%
HDPE-6mm 0%
Acrylic-6mm 0%
Error in Prediction
using K-NN
Discussion
KNN is non-probabilistic but
computationally fast
LDA fails to provide a suitable
result
GP provides a good result but is
computationally intensive.
Different thicknesses can be
handled.
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GP (2 Features)
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Conclusion
Good Classification
results
KNN and GP can be
used depending on the
scenario
Small difference in
Thicknesses can be
handled
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Future Work
Discovering more
features
Experiment Protocol
Thickness Ranges



Application
Portable, effective and
quick in material
classification