Application of neuro-wavelet algorithm in ultrasonic-phased array nondestructive testing of polyethylene pipelines (Q1953705)
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Application of neuro-wavelet algorithm in ultrasonic-phased array nondestructive testing of polyethylene pipelines (English)
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10 June 2013
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Summary: PolyEthylene (PE) pipelines with ElectroFusion (EF) joining is an essential method of transportation of gas energy. EF joints are weak points for leakage and therefore, Nondestructive testing (NDT) methods including ultrasonic array technology are necessary. This paper presents a practical NDT method of fusion joints of polyethylene piping using intelligent ultrasonic image processing techniques. In the proposed method, to detect the defects of electrofusion joints, the NDT is applied based on an ANN-Wavelet method as a digital image processing technique. The proposed approach includes four steps. First, an ultrasonic-phased array technique is used to provide real time images of high resolution. In the second step, the images are preprocessed by digital image processing techniques for noise reduction and detection of Region of Interest (ROI). Furthermore, to make more improvement on the images, mathematical morphology techniques such as dilation and erosion are applied. In the 3rd step, a wavelet transform is used to develop a feature vector containing 3-dimensional information on various types of defects. In the final step, all the feature vectors are classified through a backpropagation-based ANN algorithm. The obtained results show that the proposed algorithms are highly reliable and also precise for NDT monitoring.
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backpropagation-based artificial neural network algorithm
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intelligent ultrasonic image processing techniques
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digital image processing technique
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neuro-wavelet algorithm
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mathematical morphology techniques
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polyethylene pipelines
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electrofusion joints
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noise reduction
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nondestructive testing (NDT)
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weak points
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ANN-wavelet method
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gas energy
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