Wall thickness is always a key index for boiler tube inspection in power plant,in order to improve the inspection efficiency and accuracy,a new method fusing the magnetic and ultrasonic technique was proposed.The magn...Wall thickness is always a key index for boiler tube inspection in power plant,in order to improve the inspection efficiency and accuracy,a new method fusing the magnetic and ultrasonic technique was proposed.The magnetic technique was used to do full inspection and locate the flaws,and the ultrasonic was employed to implement further quantitative inspection accu- rately.After comparing the precision of the polynomial,exponential and logarithmic function,the polynomial model was selected to fit the relations between the wall thickness and the peak value of magnetic signals,and the data measured by ultrasonic thickness meter was used to calibrate the model parameters online,the defect depth can be sized quickly.The experimental results demon- grate that the model used in this system has better accuracy than the statistics relation model clearly,and it is also suitable for defect evaluation real-time.Moreover,it is unnecessary to have much more experimental data for the curve fitting technology,so it has better practicability than the other methods.展开更多
基金Project(No.20045006071-27)supported by the Youth Chengguang Project of Science and Technology of Wuhan City of Chinathe Open Foundation of Hubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacture Quality Engineering(No.LMQ2005B07).
文摘Wall thickness is always a key index for boiler tube inspection in power plant,in order to improve the inspection efficiency and accuracy,a new method fusing the magnetic and ultrasonic technique was proposed.The magnetic technique was used to do full inspection and locate the flaws,and the ultrasonic was employed to implement further quantitative inspection accu- rately.After comparing the precision of the polynomial,exponential and logarithmic function,the polynomial model was selected to fit the relations between the wall thickness and the peak value of magnetic signals,and the data measured by ultrasonic thickness meter was used to calibrate the model parameters online,the defect depth can be sized quickly.The experimental results demon- grate that the model used in this system has better accuracy than the statistics relation model clearly,and it is also suitable for defect evaluation real-time.Moreover,it is unnecessary to have much more experimental data for the curve fitting technology,so it has better practicability than the other methods.
