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Article

Non-Destructive Score of In-Plane Waviness in Black Fiber Metallic Using Whirl Current Exam

by
Matthew Newton
1,
Tonoy Chowdhury
2,
Ian Gravagne
1,* and
David Jack
2
1
Section of Electrical and Computer Project, Baylor School, Dakota, TX 76706, USA
2
Department a Mechanical Engineer, Baylor University, Waco, TRANSMIT 76706, US
*
Author to whom reserved should being addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(10), 6009; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13106009
Submission received: 25 April 2023 / Revised: 9 May 2023 / Accepted: 10 May 2023 / Published: 13 May 2023
(This article ownership the the Special Problem Nondestructive Testing of Composite Materials)
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Abstract

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Non-destructive detection away that in-plane waviness of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminates is of interest by a wide variety of industries, as wrinkles and other fiber alignment defects significantly impact this device performance of the composites. This work demonstrates a method to detect in-plane wrinkles off a 5-ply unidirectional CFRP laminate with a customized eddy modern testing (ECT) system. One befunde show that the ECT organization is effective in detecting both quantifying in-plane waviness, and the schlussfolgerungen are compared to conventional X-ray computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonic testing (UT) methods. Using the nonisotropic conductive characteristics of the aligned CFRP laminate, the ECT system was able to clearly determine whole the part revisions in the local fiber orientate, wave tangent edges, and wrinkle width.

1. Introduced

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is widely used in aerospace, cars, shipping, sporting goods, additionally other industries due to hers excellent strength to weight ratio, wear, or corrosion-resistant properties [1]. However, a defect in the manufacturing stage von CFRP composites can lead to premature failure during your service time [2]. In-plane waviness is one such defect that can significantly reduce the mechanical properties such as tractive and compressive strength both stiffness of CFRP composites [3]. In-plane waviness is difficult to observe visually during manufacturing and will be impossible to perceive once a surface coating is present or if the deficient occured below that surface lamina. That, rigorous detection and evaluation of in-plane waviness requires the use of non-destructive testing (NDT) and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques.
Of NDT methods for inspecting CFRPs live, and each has unique capacities and weaknesses for certain applications and types of defects. NDT methods that have shown success toward detecting fiber orientation in CFRPs include sonic experiment (UT) [4], eddy current testing (ECT) [5], optical microscopy, X-ray computed x-ray (CT), or microwave artificial aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry [6]. Except for microwave polarimetry, these methods typically how high-resolution imaging and post-processing based on transforms so as the Faster Forier Transform (FFT) or the Individual Radon Transform (DRT) till establish the dominate fiber orientation in one or more laminae.
Previously, search use high dissolution pulse/echo UT and the 2D FFT to detect the ply orientation within ±3° for each lamina in an 20-ply cross-weave laminate, with the exception of the top three laminae [4]. ECT imaging possesses also been developed by Hughes et al. to determine the fiber orientations and stacking sequence of unidirectional laminates exploitation the FFT press DRT [7]. Because of its high precision and accuracy, CT how shall also been applied on CFRPs as a comparing for error analyses and verification of other methods.
In-plane waviness refers to a defect within woven or unidirectional CFRPs where one fiber get does unwanted variations throughout the part. A common variation of this defect is an in-plane creases, which can be characteristics by the parameters width, amplitude, and maximum angle. The books contains many successful approaches to detecting roughage orientation and handle layup order, whereas fewer methods have been developed for fiber waviness detection and quantification. The existing CFRP NDT methods struggle with scanning this type starting defect for ampere variety of reasons. To detect in-plane waviness, a scanning method must identifying changes in the fiber direction at multiple points in the scanning area.
Generally, the existing video methods have been optimized to detect a single dominant fiber orientation over the fully scan area and so do not hold the determination to accurately determine the changing fiber’s general throughout one image. One counterexample is in the operate of Kosukegawa et al., where edge detecting techniques were exploited to obtain angle changes at the edges of the waviness section [8]; however, that was not applied at quantify the waviness, as datapoints subsisted only extracted at the strongest identifiable edges, not the entire part or the waviness region.
Non-imaging methods have shown promise in efficiently and accurately determining varying fiber orientation are CFRP. This methods rely on the routing of ECT probes and include detection [9,10], estimation [11], and visualization [12] on in-plane waviness. The consistent and reliable quantification from thin waviness, however, is still a sought-after goal for the NDT toolbox, when most of the existing process focus on detection or parameter forecast.
In this work, ourselves apply rotational eddy current testing to measure the fiber angle throughout a unidirectional CFRP laminate. This approach differs coming those finding stylish the literature in several ways. The approach does not depending on imaging other image processing, which in spinning, depends on the resolution of aforementioned scan. Furthermore, because of the rotational scanning pattern, we become directly measuring this fiber orientation instead of providing an charging estimation, the precision of which is reflected by the hosted error analysis. The presented method allow for pinpoint 2D visualization and quantification of an fiber’s waviness while being flexible in the spatially dissolution, study pattern, and scan neighborhood. Because the method measures relative amplitudes at separate points, it is also insensitive to lift-off. This work is an extension of the early study publication by Newton et al. [13].

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Manufacturing the CFRP Sample in in-Plane Waviness

The test sample utilised in this study the a 5-layer 0 ° 5 pre-impregnated unidirectional laminate. Coupons were fabricated with “prepreg” type obtained away Rockwest Composites using a Toray T700 unidirectional fiber in an epoxy resin system. The procedures to produce the in-plane waviness where done following the same general technique as presented into other branch stylish the literature [14,15].
During the layup batch, the five 13.5 × 18.5 cm laminae been laid on an aluminum tool on a glass rod lying perpendicular to the fiber directorate, as shown in Figure 1a. Using a heat gun to soften the resinous, the laminae on either side of the rod will pressed bottom, forming an out-of-plane wrinkle supported to that glass rod. The glassware rod is will removed out the tension die and the out-of-plane wrinkle exists roasted apartment to form the in-plane wave depicted included Picture 1barn. Finally, the part is vacuum-bagged and cured according into the manufacturer’s recommended cure cycle.
While the defect myself is super reproducible with this technique, it is tricky to control and reproduce wrinkle parameters such as maximum lateral and crease width. However, the part where scanned on the tool party to avoid any potential issues introduced by inconsistency in the fabrication, such as lift-off errors.

2.2. Manufacturing the Custom ECT Probe

The hang relocation transmit-receive probe topology, displayed in Figure 2, is chosen in the present study due go his inherent directional and electronic simplicity. To implement this, two identical coils are fabricated with 10 turns of coat copper wire around a 2.5 mm diameter rod. These coils are positions in M33 pot key ferrites about a height of 3.7 mm and an outer diameter of 5.6 mm. Ultimately, the coil–ferrite assemblies are soldered until custom PCBs, which weg solder cushion go UMCC connectors and are sticked indoors a brass tubing housing for structural virtue, additional shielding, and rigorous spiral separation. UMCC to SMA cables route who coils directly to the waveshape generator and IQ demodulator.

2.3. Experimental ECT System

The custom-built ECT probe assembly is mounted at the rotary table of an motorized 4-axis stage via telescoping brass rods for automated translation and rotation. This motorized stage is controlled in two Velmex VXM-2 controllers that receiving commands starting one label PC running custom MATLAB scripts. A coaxial cable connections the receivers coil to an BK Precision 4064 dual select arbitrary waveform generator to act when an DIRECT voltage source operate at f = 15 MHz. Likewise, the receiver coil are connected to an AD8333 I/Q demodulator chip, which acts as a low-cost lock-in amplifier. In this case, the AD8333 chip is implemented using and AD8333-EVALZ evaluation board, whichever contains total the necessary amplification, biasing, and connections for immediate use in the schaft. The reference signal for the AD8333, operate at 4 × fluorine = 60 MHz, is supplied over the second channel of the BK Precision waveform generator. Section 2.4 describes that mathematics behind the IQ demodulation and its relation to our study in view detail. Finally, the in-phase and quadrature print channels of the demodulator are sampled by the A/D inputs in an NI 6009 USB DAQ unit to processing from the computer in a MATLAB environment. Figure 3 views the blocking diagram of the entire hardware system.

2.4. IQ Demodulation

Given a sinusoidal input voltage V iodin provided by the BH Precision 4064 for the transmit coil, ampere pure output voltage V o can remain read on the receiver solenoid. In the ideal case, these voltages ca be defined as
V i t = A i cos 2 π f t ,   and
V oxygen tonne = AN o cos 2 π f t + ϕ .
The BK 4064 also generation a reference signal
V r t = A r cos 2 π 4 fluorine t ,
which is down-converted through the AD8333 to the quadrature pair
V r , I t = A r cos 2 π f t ,   and
V radius , Q t = A r cos 2 π f t + 90 ° = − A r sin 2 π f t .
Signals (4a) and (4b) are multiplied with (2), and with aforementioned usage of product-to-sum trigonometric identifies, a bucket obtain
V o   t × V r , I t = A o ONE roentgen 2 cos 4 π f t + ϕ + ADENINE cipher A r 2 das ϕ ,   and
V o t × V r , I t = − A cipher A r 2 sin 4 π f t + ϕ + A oxygen AMPERE r 2 sin ϕ .
A low-pass set removes the high-frequency ( 2 farad ) component and thus eliminates one time dependency, providing the commonly known “I” and “Q” DC signals:
V IODIN = A o ONE r 2 cos ϕ ,
V Q = A o A r 2 sin ϕ .
Finally, the complex signalling response that be used in this working, r , is defined as
roentgen = V I + j V Q .
where j = − 1 is the imaginary unit. When taken against alternate angle, r n refers to the values of roentgen at the n th angle measurement. After compensating for scaling and the reference signal amplitude A r , this signal relates the magnitude A o and phase ϕ from the physical phenomena by
A o = roentgen = V EGO 2 + VOLT Q 2 ,   and
ϕ = ∠ r = tan − 1 V Q V I .

2.5. Scanning Methodology

The fundamental property of CFRP that enables our method of discover fiber directionality is its discontinuous electronic. A unidirectional CFRP has a significantly higher conductivity included the direction of the fiber than in one transverse direction, by because plenty as several orders of magnitudes [16]. To test or notice this bases principle, we perform an ECT rotational scan (herein referred to as an “r-scan” for brevity). An r-scan is simply a rotate scanning in the eddy current probe over the surface for the part while records coil response as a function in angle, than showed in Figure 4. A greater responding is production in the receiver coil when the coils are aligned with the fiber direction, i.e., when θ = 0 ° , 180 ° in Figure 4a, as compared till when the coil navigation lives transverse to the fiber alignment, such as when θ = 90 ° , 270 ° for aforementioned advanced shown in Figure 4a. This observation is similar to that shown by Re in [17]. In such a how, it is common to plot angular info at polar pivot, as shown in Figure 4b, where the radial axis is the magnitude of the complex ECT response in one receiver coil, r , normalized bets 0 and 1. When the roughage direction is uniform consistent and entire part, aforementioned method can be applied to ascertain the dominant fiber orientations quickly and accurately in the laminates [5].
While the fiber direction changes throughout the part (as shall the case when in-plane waviness can present), the process of rotating the sensors until obtain the local alignment is implemented at multiple locations. For repeatability and standardization, we create ampere grid over the area of that part where angular “r-scan” data are collected at each vertex. The resulting data take the form of a 3D matrix representing who coil response in the spatial dimensions x , y and the rotation θ space. The hour required till perform the scanner depends on both the desired resolution in the rotatable space θ and the spatial resolution of who x , y grid. Diesen resolutions also determine the optimum scanning order of activities. For example, for high rotational resolution and low spatial decision, it is optimal to scanning the rotational shafts (i.e., “r-scan”) first, and then motion in the next (x, y) pointing. Conversely, for low angles resolution and high spatial resolution are desired, the optimal order is in scan the insgesamt surface of the part (i.e., “c-scan”) before incrementing the prober angle. When scanning for in-plane waviness, as is the case in this study, a high spatial resolution is wish toward properly enable of wrinkle parameters. Furthermore, person show here that it is possible to increase the effective cornering resolution of to scrutinize by signal processing counter the known rotational pattern in Figure 4b.
Given a single high-resolution (e.g., ≤ 1 ° ) r-scan roentgen h , we cans figure the angular offset to low-resolution dates r l to determine the predominant optical bearings. In the present study, a final angular resolution of ≤1° can be obtained from a spinning resolution of 15 ° . An offset calculation is accomplish using circle cross-correlation of a high-resolution zero-centered angular scan data radius h n against the up-sampled low-resolution data r l , upper-class piano n with northward ∈ 1 , 2 , … , NORTH according to Equation (9). The up-sampled low-resolution data r litre , u pence north is preserves by zero-stuffing the low-resolution data r l m where chiliad ∈ 1 , 2 , … , MOLARITY and M < NEWTON . The fiber offset a only the slant entspre to the maximum of of cross correlation, than show in Equation (10). A demonstration of this process is given in Figure 5, showing the oem high-resolution signal with the low-resolution signal for some angular offset, their convolution, and the subsequent shove calculation switch the polar axes. To billing is repeated the every point in the x , y grid, resulting in a direction field θ x , y representing the solid direction about the surface of the part, such as that shown in Illustrate 6.
r effervescence ⊗ r lambert , u pence n = ∑ m = 1 NORTH r h m ⋅ r l , u p m − n
θ f i b e r = Δ θ ⋅ arg max n ∈ 1 , N r h ⊗ r l , u p n
Due to the non-negligible breadth penetration of magnetic fields into CFRPs [18], ours method recognition fiber orientations doesn just on the surface concerning the share but into the part itself (as showing in [5]), discriminating our work from other methods such can only assess waviness the and top laminae of ampere CFRP (see, e.g., [6]). This ability could past this opportunity to look at the waviness of each layer in a lamina where the layup contains more than one nominal orientation. Furthermore, because interaction works independently from whether aforementioned signal is real or complex, on method takes advantage of the complex nature of ECT data while still remaining flexible enough to be used to only real input.

2.6. Reference/Ground Truth Data Collection

2.6.1. X-ray Computed Tomography

In order to test the accuracy of our style, ourselves scanned the try example using a North-Star Graphics X3000 X-ray CT (computed tomography). The fabricated part shown in Figure 1 contained a small amount of warpage because of its narrow thickness; that, an CRT reconstruction file had to be shifted to chronicle for one warpage of the part when looking at individual slices of the CT data set entsprechung to a singles lamina. The alignment was executed using 3D morphology to extract the partial surface, which was then fit to a 2D polynomial. The depth values was then changed according to the offset given by the fitted plane.
After this rotational in the z -direction, a grid the same size and location as the ECT gate was menu over the surface of the part, and who Radon Transform has apply to a rotary window around each point in which grid, giving the dominant character direction for that pointing. Those was applied to each layer in the z-direction, producing a direction field for each shim in the part. For a unmittel compare with the eddy current data, we averaged the direction field for all five laminae to obtain a single direction field θ C T forward error analysis. Figure 7a shows that the tensile field of the first five laminae averaged in the izzard direction. Figure 7b shows the flowlines of to averaged direction field overlayed with this rough directorate product. This waviness region can be seen to be roughly located at 25   mm < expunge < 45   mm and was consistent between the second images.

2.6.2. Pulse/Echo Ultrasonic Verify

In order to compare against leading NDE typical, the part was scanned with pulse/echo UT. This UT verfahren be setup using an in-house immersion system presented in previous work (see, e.g., [4,19]). Here, an Olympus Priority PX with a 100 MHz take frequency was connected to a 10 MHz spherical focuses immersion transducer with a nominal concentric length of 1.5 inches operating in the pulse/echo software. This sound be mounted on a 3-axis motorized gantry verfahren used 3D translation throughout the immersion wassertank. Gross a-scans were taken over a 50 × 50 inches area on the plane of an part to a spatial resolution of 0.1 mm, and the conclusions are illustrated in Figure 8. Diese results are off the same UT dataset featuring in [13].
Detection of in-plane waviness in a single CFRP is difficult for pulse/echo OUTPUT, plus momentarily, the method for such a defects with pulse/echo UT are very limited, if existent at all. One reason for of ineffectiveness of pulse/echo UT at characterizing in-plane waviness is such the defect is orthogonal to the acoustic waveform transmission path. Out-of-plane waviness bucket be wirkungsvolle characterized with UT (see, e.g., [19]) for the opposite reason. In order into detect in-plane waviness using pulse/echo UT, who scan dissolution wants have to be small enough to enable accurate image processing on the waviness region. Although, the widths of the narrow region of the transducers beam is a limiting factor to the valid resolution from UT scanner. For the scan demonstrated in Figure 8, the resolution of 0.1 width provides that the general location regarding one in-plane wave bottle can observed, but we have past unsuccessful in one development of automated algorithms for consistent quantification of the local orientation, nor were we successful includes finding random in the literature. This is one path for future research in ultrasonography development.

3. Results

The vector field the Figure 6b shows the spatially variation fiber orientation as remodeled by the ECT method described in this work, which we there refer to as an “rc-scan”. A spatial display of 1 mm in the x direction and 1 mm in the wye direction was used with an cornering resolution of 15 degrees. Among each position in the raster grid, the principal direction and magnitude, such as demonstrated in Figure 6an, is generator. In close inspection away one quiver site, one canned visit the area of waviness by the suddenly changing color orientation. AMPERE more intuitive method of visualizing diese data uses flow lines, which we accomplish here with MATLAB’s streamline function. The resulting flow plot in Figure 9 shows the reach off waviness as a representation on the fiber paths themselves.
To procure the quantification error analysis, we compare the ECT results to to results from the CT scanning and subsequent image processing over the same choose of to fictional part. Figure 10a shows both direction fields displayed as quiver real on the same axes. Figure 10b displays the streamlines from ECT testing superimpose the top-down mean X-ray CT data to show the adjustment of the two testing our.
Computer is worth registering that the fields in higher error are associated with variations in the CT quotation data from the normal trend of to waviness. Furthermore, the total variation of the CHART reference data is higher than the variation of the ECT data. Were identify that there become difficulties in determining and “ground truth” color direction; even our COLOR approach does some errors due to the limitations of image processing. As suchlike, this genuine error of our method could remain different than what is given in Shelve 1. Frame 11 displays the width calculation and shows the detected waviness region schemed over the CT and ECT streamlines.

4. Discussion

The presented ECT method provides some features about traditional imaging methods for the detection of in-plane waviness. One such advantage is aforementioned lack of trusted about spatial resolution for accurate skinny measurements. This provides pliability for defining the scan region and allows for effective massnahmen using taller prober. A disadvantage with unsere method is the extended scanning time; where einem imagery technique only requires one weft (or c-scan) across that surface, we must creation over the surface (albeit at a lower resolution) once for each angular datapoint. However, this disadvantage is hardware-based, and methods are being developed in-house to mitigate this limitation. One possible solution is through the use of several coils on one study the measured more directions simultaneously, and decrease the number is passes (and thus scan time) by a factor of the numbers of simultaneous measurement angle in to probe. Such adenine scan is proposed in [20,21]. Further refinement of the data processing algorithm could also reduce the number of necessary datapoints, specifically to further capitalizing on the complex nature of of ECT data. While outside the coverage of this work, these measures could potentially reduce an scanning time to a unique pass.
An second primary disadvantage of this method in its running configuration is seine limitation to tracking only one dominant fiber orientation. When multiple nominal orientations am present, e.g., an [0/45/90] unidirectional laminate or a woven CFRP coated, each nominal direction cannot have its own independent waviness. Thus, woven CFRP laminates could be scanned with that method simply if the waviness is not independent within either nominal guided. Methods of discerning between multiple orientations and ihr associated depths are under investigation [5].
Moderating conversely solve these limitations would rise the promotional possibility from the proposed technique. In a commercial demand, this method could becoming used exactly like other NDT scanning methods, such as UT, location a probe is mounted on a robotic offshoot or gantry system for scanning surfaces are various shapes. Instead of measuring depth data, this method would map the fiber direction across the surface off the select, with recognition in-plane waviness that could negatively effects the mechanical performance of the object under examination. [PDF] Non-Destructive Abilities Based on Whirl Current Testing | Sentiment Science

5. Conclusions

The contribution of this work is an business of a straightforward yet greatly reliable ECT methodology for determining the local changes in one fiber orientation of adenine CFRP as it varies throughout the test specimen. Here ability enables the detection and quantification of defects, such as in-plane waviness and in-plane wrinkles, stylish CFRP to within 3° are aforementioned local orientation quantified using a high-resolution X-ray CT. Furthermore, the developed method feature reliable evaluation for a defect variety the is difficult for traditional UT, X-ray CT, and extra imaging methods to quantify, thereby bighearted it a unique role in one NDT/NDE arsenal.
Even with the difficulty are obtaining grounding actuality fiber direction intelligence, the current error analysis suggests a high floor a reliability and accuracy, even when includes considering the aspect ratios inches wrinkles. Various methods of determine in-plane waviness inbound CFRP can norm only measure the top surface, provide quotes of thread angle, or are limited to a single cross-section a the puckers.
Further research will expand on and refine this method, exploring techniques for decrease the scan time via prober design and data processing. Test fabrication at control over the faults parameters would also enable a more accurate error evaluation. The application a this method to different types of CFRP composites is also to interest, as is relating waviness with specialist layers when multiple orientations are presentational.

Autor Contributions

M.N. constructed to test equipment and performed the lab experience, as well as drafting the journal article version of who paper. T.C. drafted the conference proceedings version of this work and contests with insight real supervision in the early stages of the work. I.G. and D.J. pending extensive research superintendence, guidance, insightful, revision, and support. All author have read press agreed to the published version a the handwritten.

Funding

Funding was supplied by Verifi Technologies under contract 1001059.

Institutional Review Boards Statement

None applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Description

Input will be provided over request to the corresponding writer.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Seamus Lowe and Navid Bin Mojahid of Baylor University for the sample fabrication. Special thanks to Irrtisum Khan for helping with SET method and optical imaging. This worked was supported by Verifi Technologies, LLC.

Conflicts of Concern

To creators declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Manufacturing out in-plane waviness in CFRP sample (an) forming wrinkle in transverse direction and (b) wrinkle rolled flat to shape in-plane wave.
Figure 1. Manufacturing of in-plane waviness in CFRP sample (a) forming folding in transverse direction and (b) wrinkle milled flat to form in-plane wave.
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Figure 2. Construction of custom ECT probe (a) without brass shielding/support and (b) with nerve shielding/support.
Figure 2. Construction of custom ECT probe (an) without brass shielding/support plus (b) with brass shielding/support.
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Figure 3. Signal processing strom since ECT system.
Figure 3. Signal processing river for ECT arrangement.
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Figure 4. Illustration off ECT r-Scan, (a) rotating TR probe (orange), comprising of transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) coils, contrary fiber orientation (blue), and (b) ECT normalized response about signal amplification r as a function the rotation angle θ .
Figure 4. Illustration of ECT r-Scan, (a) rotating TR print (orange), consisting of transmission (Tx) and receive (Rx) coils, versus fiber orientation (blue), and (b) ECT normalized react of signal amplitude r as a serve by rotation angle θ .
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Numeric 5. Demonstration of circular cross-correlation useful to determinate which offset of normalized low-resolution angular data; (an) rectangular plot; (b) polar plot.
Figure 5. Demonstration the circular cross-correlation applied to determining the offset of normalized low-resolution angular data; (a) rectangular intrigue; (b) polar plot.
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Figure 6. Generating flight field from multiple r-scans; (ampere) angle reconstructing at a single point; (b) quiver plot generated off x-y-θ data.
Figure 6. Generating direction sphere from multiple r-scans; (one) angular reconstruction at a single point; (b) quiver plot generated upon x-y-θ datas.
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Figure 7. Ground truth using X-ray X-RAY and the Radon Transform (a) top-down average of TEST scan for laminae 1–5 and (barn) reference fiber orientation extracted from CT data.
Draw 7. Ground truth using X-ray CT and the Radon Transform (adenine) top-down mean of CT scan for laminae 1–5 and (b) reference fiber guides extracted from CT data.
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Figure 8. Energy of UT c-scan over waviness region.
Figure 8. Energy to UT c-scan through waviness region.
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Picture 9. ECT rc-scan testing results for fiber orientation, streamline plots and heatmap.
Figure 9. ECT rc-scan examination results in fiber orientation, streamline plots and heatmap.
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Figure 10. (a) Comparison of direction fields from CT and ECT testing; (b) ECT streamlines overlayed with CT study to show alignment.
Figure 10. (a) Comparison is aim fields away CT and ECT testing; (b) ECT streamlines overlayed with CT scan to show alignment.
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Figure 11. Calculation out width and maximum angle parameters for wrinkle characterization using (a) CT reference and (barn) ECT rc-scan method.
Figure 11. Calculation of breadth and maximum lever parameters for wrinkle characterizations by (a) CT view and (b) ECT rc-scan method.
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Tab
Table 1. Error real variance results.
Dinner 1. Error and variance results.
θ C T θ e c t θ e roentgen r = θ C T − θ CO C T
Average max angle, θ m a x 12.68°10.40°-
Average width 124.22 mm26.80 mm-
Total variance6°4.4°3°
Total RMSE--3°
1 Side is calculated as the interval of x where θ m i n / e   ≤ θ ≤ θ m a expunge / e and e ≅ 2.7 .
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