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• Customer: NIIEFA
• Branch: Atomic energy / fusion reactor
• Inspection task: Automated inspection of objects
with arbitrary shape
L – longitudinal wave
T – Shear wave
Modern Instrumentation
for Concrete Testing
Image: Mahdi Shariati, Nor Hafizah Ramli-Sulong, Mohammad Mehdi Arabnejad K. H., Payam Shafigh and
Hamid Sinaei Department of Civil Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sound velocity V = D / t
t – measured propagation time
position 1
Inspection object
Probe
(cross section)
Position 1
A-scan
Noise
Scanning
direction
Transmitter Backwall.
Material pulse echo
flaw
Position 2
A-scan
Flaw
echo
position 2
Probe
Noise
Inspection object
21 22 23 2N
31 32 33 3N
Defect N1 N2 N3 NN
Inspection object
Information matrix
Flaw 4
Flaw 1
Flaw 3
Flaw 2
Flaw 5 Flaw 6
15x15
16x16
14x14
11x11
9x9
13x13
10x10
12x12
4x4
5x5
3x3
2x26x6
7x7
1x1
8x8
≈λ
Acoustic Control Systems – ACS Group 2020 37
Instrumentation for Ultrasonic Concrete Testing
Application of UT on concrete
structures
Concrete
inspection
object
Coupler
Elementary
wavelets
Reconstruction
model of the
inspection object
Voxel
RoI
RoI
marker
marker
Future trends
Using the matrix apertures / True-3D tomographic imaging
Open-Crack Sizing
Functionality
Modular design