基于小波分析的声发射源定位技术

声发射全波形采集技术为基于波形分析的声源定位方法提供了可能。在板状构件中声波的传播模式较为复杂,且不同模式的波到达时间和波速均不相同,从而带来了声源定位误差。将时频幅度分析方法引入声发射源定位技术：从接收到的信号中提取出某一频率的柔性波随时间变化的规律,在理论分析的基础上证明,这个分离信号的最大幅值点所对应的时间就是该频率柔性波群速度的到达时间。根据这个到达时间,以及实际测量出的群速度就可以实现声发射源更精确的定位,试验结果也证明了这种方法的可靠性。     

Source location of acoustic emission in diesel engines

This paper is the third in a series developing methods of mapping acoustic emission (AE) signals and wave propagation in engines and focuses on source location techniques for the multi-source signals on relatively complex structures typical of machinery applications. Two source location techniques, a traditional wave velocity-based and an AE energy-based technique, using triangular sensor arrays, are used to locate source positions on the cylinder head of a 74 kW diesel engine using simulated sources (pencil lead break) and real sources (e.g. injectors (INJs) and exhaust valves during engine running).Source location using both techniques is demonstrated on the cylinder head of a 74 kW four-stroke diesel engine. The velocity-based technique uses AE wave speeds and time-of-flight (wave arrival time) to locate source position and is found to be most effective for single source signals with a sharp rising edge and good signal to noise ratios. The energy-based technique is based on a simple absorption attenuation model and was found to be useful for multiple source signals such as INJ signals, although structure-specific attenuation coefficients need to be measured for accurate source location.     

基于模态分析和小波变换的声发射源定位新算法研究

针对传统声发射源定位中，声发射信号到达传感器的时间受设定门槛电压影响很大，导致声发射源定位效果较差，提出了一种声发射源定位新方法。根据模态声发射理论，携带声发射源信息的声发射信号在结构中传播过程中，具有频散现象和多模态特性。因此，声发射源定位应基于同一频率下、同一模态导波到达各个传感器的时间和传播速度。通过对声发射信号进行Gabor小波变换的方法，在时频空间内确定某一频率下某一模态导波到达传感器的时间；并通过数值计算得到该频率处模态导波的群速度，从而实现声发射源的准确定位。通过薄板中声发射线源定位试验，证明了该定位算法的有效性。     

A new acoustic emission source location technique based on wavelet transform and mode analysis

For wave propagation in dispersive media, the arrival time of the acoustic emission signal to the sensor is dependent on the setting of the threshold voltage, which results in the inaccuracy of the acoustic emission location. Based on the wavelet transform and the theory of modal acoustic emission, a new method is proposed to improve the accuracy of acoustic emission source location. It is believed that the acoustic emission signal propagation in the structure has the characteristics of multi-mode and dispersion, and the acoustic emission source location should use the arrival time to sensors obtained from the output signals not only at the same mode but also at the same frequency. The wavelet transform is used to resolve the problem. By utilizing the time-frequency data of the wavelet, the frequency-dependent arrival time traveling is easily obtained; by numerical computation of the wave’s propagation in structure, the group velocity of the guided mode is also obtained, therefore the accuracy source location is realized. The acoustic emission source location experiments were conducted in a thin steel plate and results show that the technique is an effective tool for acoustic emission source location. __________ Translated from Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, 2005, 26(3) (in Chinese)     

钢板声发射时间反转聚焦增强定位方法

声发射检测方法具有实时动态监测优点,应用越来越广泛,但是对声源的定位始终没有更大的突破。在钢板声发射检测中,提出一种基于时间反转理论的声发射源准确定位的方法。由于声发射检测是一种被动检测技术,结合时间反转聚焦理论,推导出对声源信号实现时间反转聚焦增强处理方法,可增强检测信号中声源幅值,提高信噪比;然后根据声源信号到达时间推算出声源聚焦时刻,利用弹性波传播理论对传感器监测区域重建信号传播波动图,显示出声源位置和区域;最后通过实验测试对该方法进行验证,结果表明该方法能有效提高损伤声源信号的能量,对检测区域的信号重建和定位显示准确地给出损伤声源位置。     

压力容器上声发射源的新型定位方法

压力容器裂纹扩展时产生的弹性波在传播时声压遵从指数衰减规律,本文提出一种利用声衰减对声发射源进行源定位的新方法。用AE21C型声发射仪对自制的小型高分子合成纤维材料容器以铅笔芯折断产生信号为模拟源进行了实验测量,证明这种新的源定位方法可行,并具有无须测量传播介质衰减特性、无须测量声速等优点。     

火车轮裂纹声发射源定位技术研究

针对火车轮运行过程中受变载荷作用产生的裂纹具有的特征,对现有的裂纹声发射定位技术进行了优化.在硬件上采用更适用于车轮运行环境的安装方式,并确定了前向通道的各项参数.根据模态声发射理论,即AE信号在传播过程中具有的频散现象和多模态特性,通过对同一模式波到达各传感器的时差信号的精确分析,采用时差法和面域定位相结合的方法进行源位置的计算.由于采用多种技术进行分析,结果将更为精确.     

基于云理论与LS-SVM的刀具磨损识别方法

针对刀具磨损过程中产生声发射信号的不确定性以及神经网络学习算法收敛速度慢、易陷入局部极小值、对特征要求较高等问题,提出了基于云理论和最小二乘支持向量机的刀具磨损状态识别方法。首先,对声发射信号进行小波包分解与重构,滤除干扰频段对求取特征参数的影响;其次,对重构后的信号利用逆向云算法提取云特征参数:期望、熵、超熵,分析刀具磨损声发射信号的云特性及磨损状态与云特征参数之间的关系;最后,将云特征参数组成特征向量送入最小二乘支持向量机进行识别。研究结果表明:所提取的特征可以很好地反映刀具的磨损状态,云-支持向量机方法可以有效地实现刀具磨损状态的识别,与传统神经网络识别方法相比具有更高的识别率,识别率达到96.67%。     

基于多输出支持向量回归的声发射源平面定位

为了解决直升机动部件疲劳损伤定位问题,提出了基于多输出支持向量回归算法的声发射源平面定位方法.以声发射信号的多个时域参数作为输入,破损点的平面坐标(x,y)作为输出,用支持向量回归机逼近输入输出之间的非线性映射关系,然后利用支持向量回归机的泛化推广能力,实现声发射源的平面定位.通过碳纤维材料试件断铅定位试验结果表明:该方法有效的实现了声发射源的平面定位,并且在收敛速度和定位精度上优于RBF神经网络.     

An impact source localization technique for a nuclear power plant by using sensors of different types

In a nuclear power plant, a loose part monitoring system (LPMS) provides information on the location and the mass of a loosened or detached metal impacted onto the inner surface of the primary pressure boundary. Typically, accelerometers are mounted on the surface of a reactor vessel to localize the impact location caused by the impact of metallic substances on the reactor system. However, in some cases, the number of accelerometers is not sufficient to estimate the impact location precisely. In such a case, one of useful methods is to utilize other types of sensor that can measure the vibration of the reactor structure. For example, acoustic emission (AE) sensors are installed on the reactor structure to detect leakage or cracks on the primary pressure boundary. However, accelerometers and AE sensors have a different frequency range. The frequency of interest of AE sensors is higher than that of accelerometers. In this paper, we propose a method of impact source localization by using both accelerometer signals and AE signals, simultaneously. The main concept of impact location estimation is based on the arrival time difference of the impact stress wave between different sensor locations. However, it is difficult to find the arrival time difference between sensors, because the primary frequency ranges of accelerometers and AE sensors are different. To overcome the problem, we used phase delays of an envelope of impact signals. This is because the impact signals from the accelerometer and the AE sensor are similar in the whole shape (envelope). To verify the proposed method, we have performed experiments for a reactor mock-up model and a real nuclear power plant. The experimental results demonstrate that we can enhance the reliability and precision of the impact source localization. Therefore, if the proposed method is applied to a nuclear power plant, we can obtain the effect of additional installed sensors.     

气体管道泄漏模态声发射时频定位方法

针对声发射信号频散特性导致基于时延估计的气体管道泄漏定位误差大的问题,提出一种基于模态声发射时频分析的泄漏定位方法。该方法采用平滑伪Wigner-Ville时频分布对两泄漏信号的互相关函数进行时频分析,利用互相关函数的时频谱可同时提取泄漏信号的时间延迟和与之对应的频率;然后根据泄漏声发射信号的主导模态的频散曲线即可确定该频率对应的声速,利用实时确定的声速和时间延迟并根据两传感器之间的距离即可确定泄漏点的位置。实验结果表明,采用时频分析的气体管道泄漏定位误差与互相关相比减少了6倍。所提出的模态声发射时频定位方法能有效抑制泄漏信号的频散,提高泄漏信号的相关性,从而更适合用于声发射管道泄漏定位。     

LS-SVM回归算法在刀具磨损量预测中的应用

提出了基于最小二乘支持向量机回归算法的刀具磨损量预测方法。该方法首先利用经验模态分解算法对非线性、非平稳的声发射信号进行平稳化处理,得到了若干个固有模态函数;然后建立了每个固有模态函数的自回归模型,并提取模型系数构造特征向量;最后采用最小二乘支持向量机回归算法实现了刀具磨损量的预测。该方法与神经网络预测算法相比,具有更高的预测准确率,可有效预测当前切削状态下10s后的刀具磨损量。     

基于光纤光栅和支持向量机的声发射定位系统

利用光纤光栅传感器和边缘滤波原理构建传感系统,结合小波分解与重构和支持向量机算法,对铝合金板声发射定位进行了研究。根据划分区域进行声发射实验,探索声发射源所在区域与信号特征之间的关系。在对声发射信号进行小波分解的基础上,使用近似系数和细节系数进行重构,并对重构后的各信号计算其振荡能量作为信号特征,进行声发射区域识别。以重构信号的振荡能量作为输入、声发射区域位置类别作为输出构建支持向量机多分类模型,实现了声发射区域定位识别。实验结果表明,在400mm×400mm×2mm的铝合金板上对36个测试样本进行了多次声发射区域定位识别,在180次模拟实验中实现了176次声发射区域准确定位,正确率达到97.78%,声发射区域识别精度为30mm×30mm。该研究结果为机械结构的声发射区域定位检测提供了有效方法。     

Deformation stage for quantitative acoustic emission measurements

A deformation stage capable of fully reversed fatigue loading for use in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is described. This stage incorporates a novel surface displacement transducer for the detection of acoustic emission (AE) signals, which has a flat response over a wide band and can be used as a receiver up to 12 MHz. Also described is a method for analysis of these signals to obtain the size, speed, and location of the source event. A special grip geometry is introduced such that the dynamic Greens function describing the surface displacement at the transducer contains an initial p-wave delta function which is utilized to determine the source properties.     

Incipient damage detection and its propagation monitoring of rolling contact fatigue by acoustic emission

The acoustic emission (AE) technique was applied to rolling contact fatigue tests using a test-rig running under constant load and speed for detecting the incipient damage and damage location. This incipiently-damaged roller was investigated in detail and monitored by further running to determine the damage severity and to understand the surface damage propagation process by applying the AE techniques. The conventional AE parameters and AE signal features were studied, and their relation with the AE source locator hit count rate were correlated. The results demonstrated the successful use of the AE measurement unit, which is principally, consists of the AE data analyzer and the AE source locator as a new system for detecting incipient damage produced by fatigue. Moreover, the system is able to forecast the position of the damage in the roller, capable of providing an indication of the severity of damage i.e. damage size, and thus it could allow the user to monitor the rate of further degradation of the rolling elements.     

Feature extraction of AE characteristics in offshore structure model using Hilbert-Huang transform

This paper addresses an application of recently developed signal processing tool based on the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) to characterize the acoustic emission (AE) signals released from the offshore structure model. The AE signals from the cracks in the welded steel nodes of the offshore structure model are collected during the tensile testing in water and the simulated AE signals are also collected in the offshore structure model. Instantaneous frequency and energy features based on local properties of the AE signals are then extracted using the Hilbert-Huang transform method. In order to demonstrate the advantage of the AE feature extraction techniques based on Hilbert-Huang transform, the conventional AE analysis is also provided side-by-side for comparison. The results verify that the method based on HHT better characterizes the AE signals than the classical AE techniques. It can be concluded that the AE signal analysis based on HHT is an effective tool to extract the features and this opens perspectives for crack recognition in offshore structures.     

Locating acoustic emission sources in complex structures using Gaussian processes

A standard technique in the field of non-destructive evaluation is to use acoustic emissions to characterise and locate the damage events that generate them. The location problem is typically posed in terms of the times of flight of the waves and results in an optimisation problem, which can at times be ill-posed. A method is proposed here for learning the relationship between time of flight differences and damage location using data generated by artificially stimulated acoustic emission (AE)—a classic problem of regression. A structure designed to represent a complicated aerospace component was interrogated using a laser to thermoelastically generate AE at multiple points across the structure's surface. Piezoelectric transducers were mounted on the surface of the structure, and the resulting waveforms were recorded. A Gaussian process (GP) with RBF kernels was chosen for regression. Since during AE monitoring not all events can be guaranteed to be detected by all sensors, a GP was trained on data for all possible combinations (subsets) of sensors. The inputs to the GPs were the differences in time of flight between sensors in the set, and the targets were the locations of the source of ultrasonic stimulation. Subsequent (test) data points were located by every possible GP, given the active sensors. It is shown that maps learned on a given structure can generalise effectively to nominally identical structures.     

基于导波理论的管道泄漏声发射定位新技术研究

由于泄漏声发射信号的多模态特性和在管道内传播过程中的频散特性,使得通过相关分析进行管道泄漏定位的效果很差。根据模态声发射理论,将圆管中导波传播理论应用于管道泄漏的声发射检测,建立了管道中泄漏声发射信号的多模态传播模型。利用管道中导波传播的频散特性,在提取单一模态导波基础上,提出了一种实用的声发射泄漏定位方法。 泄漏定位试验证明了该方法的有效性。     

Using a probabilistic model to estimate the reliability of locating acoustic emission sources

A probabilistic model for estimating the error in determining the coordinates of acoustic emission (AE) sources based on experimental data is considered. A spherical indentor was pressed in a test object to obtain a large number of AE signals. Processing of signal parameters has made it possible to reveal the dependence of the likelihood of determining the coordinate with a prescribed accuracy on the maximum amplitude and AE-signal rise time. The possibility for choosing the method of detection of the AE-signal time of arrival at receivers depending on the signal parameters has also been examined.