Matching pursuit-based signal processing method to improve ultrasonic flaw detection in NDT applications

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 413-414

  Ruiz, N ^a   Vera, P ^a   Curpian J ^a   Martinez D ^a   Mata, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FLAW DETECTION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0037456325     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030262     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. NEWHOUSE, V.L., BILGUTAY, N.M., SANIIE, J., and FURGASON, E.S.: 'Flaw-to-grain echo enhancement by split spectrum processing', Ultrasonics, 1982, 20, pp. 59-68
2. ABBATE, A., KOAY, J., FRANKEL, J., SCHROEDER, S.C., and DAS, P.: 'Signal detection and noise suppression using a wavelet transform signal processor: application to ultrasonic flaw detection', IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, 1997, 44, pp. 14-25
3. LAZARO, J.C., SAN EMETERIO, J.L., RAMOS, A., and FERNANDEZ-MARRON, J.L.: 'Influence of thresholding procedures in ultrasonic grain noise reduction using wavelets', Ultrasonics, 2002, 40, pp. 263-267
4. CHEN, S., and DONOHO, D.: 'Basis pursuit'. Proc. 28th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 41-44
5. ZHANG, G., ZHANG, S., and WANG, Y.: 'Application of adaptive time-frequency decomposition in ultrasonic NDE of highly scattering materials', Ultrasonics, 2000, 38, pp. 961-964
6. MALLAT, S., and ZHANG, Z.: 'Matching pursuits with time-frequency dictionaries', IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1993, 41, pp. 3397-3415