A New Ray Tracing Method Based on Linear Travel-Time Interpolation

Abstract:

In the application of industrial flaw detection, the materials to be detected are often a collection of a background area and a small amount of defect areas. In traditional linear travel-time interpolation (LTI) method, the assumption of travel-time linearity will lead to error accumulation when the rays go through multiple cells. In order to reduce the cumulative error in this application, a new ray tracing method is proposed based on linear travel-time interpolation. In our method, calculation points are located on the boundaries between different areas to determine the angle of refraction. Moreover, the minimum travel-time of each point is computed by multidirectional loop strategy, which will make the traced ray path conforms to the condition of minimum travel-time when ray transports from the reverse direction. The simulation results show that using the proposed method to calculate travel-times and paths of tracing rays, it is more rapid and accurate than traditional LTI method and cross-scanning LTI method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 743)
• Pages: 845-851
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.743.845
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: L.J. Liu, Z.H. Xie*, C. Yang
• Keywords: Linear Travel-Time Interpolation (LTI), Minimum Travel-Time, Ray Tracing, Ultrasonic Computed Tomography (UCT)

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