Nondestructive Evaluation of Austenitic Stainless Steel Welds

Abstract:

The paper presents advanced ultrasonic and eddy current NDE techniques developed in the authors laboratory for nondestructive evaluation of austenitic stainless steel welds. The paper discusses the performance and comparison of 2D discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and de-noising methods applied on eddy current images obtained from stainless steel weld pad with machined longitudinal notches and a systematic approach for eddy current defect characterisation in weld pads by neural network. The simulation and experimental results on the effect of elastic anisotropy on ultrasonic phased array inspection in austenitic stainless steel weld are also discussed. A guided wave based ultrasonic method developed for detection of defects in stainless steel welds and its validation with complimentary techniques such as radiography and in-situ metallography are also presented.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 794)
• Pages: 366-374
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.794.366
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Anish Kumar, B. Sasi, Govind K. Sharma, B. Purnachandra Rao, T. Jayakumar
• Keywords: Austenitic Stainless Steel Weld, Eddy Current Testing, Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Ultrasonic Testing (UT)

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