ultrasonic flaw detection and imaging through reverberant layers via subspace analysis and projection超声波探伤,通过子空间分析和投影成像通过反射的层.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Acoustics and Vibration Volume 2012, Article ID 957379, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/957379 Research Article Ultrasonic Flaw Detection and Imaging through Reverberant Layers via Subspace Analysis and Projection Ramazan Demirli,1 Moeness G. Amin,1 Xizhong Shen,2 and Yimin D. Zhang1 1 Center for Advanced Communication, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA 2 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China Correspondence should be addressed to Ramazan Demirli, ramazan.demirli@ Received 12 March 2012; Revised 30 May 2012; Accepted 31 May 2012 Academic Editor: Erdal Oruklu Copyright © 2012 Ramazan Demirli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Ultrasonic flaw detection and imaging through reverberant layers are challenging problems owing to the layer-induced reverberations and front surface reflections. These undesired signals present a strong clutter and mask the flaw echoes. In this paper, a subspace-based approach is developed for removing, or significantly reducing, the unwanted reverberations, enabling proper flaw detection and imaging. The technique utilizes a set of independent clutter-only reference measurements of the material through the layer. If these measurements are not available, array measurements of the material with flaws are used instead. The clutter, due to its high strength relative to the flaw reflections, forms a subspace spanned by the eigenvectors corresponding to the dominant eigenvalues of the data covariance matrix. The cl