An Approach to Reconstruction of a Natural Crack using Signals of Eddy Current Testing, 1; Reconstruction of an Idealized Crack

JNC TN9400 99-009, 39 Pages, 1998/12

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In this paper, an approach to the reconstruction of an idealized natural crack of non-vanishing conductivity is proposed with use of signals of eddy current testing. Two numerical models are introduced at first for modeling a Stress Corrosion Crack (SCC) in order it possibly to be represented by a set of crack parameters. A method for rapid prediction of the eddy current testing signals arisen from these idealized cracks is given then by extending a knowledge based fast forward solver developed by authors to the case of a non-vanishing conductivity. On the other hand, the inverse algorithm of conjugate gradient method is improved to reconstruct the crack parameters and is implemented with the pick-up signals and gradients calculated by using the rapid forward solver. Several examples are presented finally for validating the proposed strategy. The results verified that both of the models can give reasonable reconstruction results in case of a low noise level. The model concerning the touch of crack surfaces with a conducting band region surrounded by the crack edge, however, is proved more efficient than the model using a conductivity distribution from the point of view of both reconstruction speed and accuracy.