Ultrasonic inspection of multi-wire steel strands with the aid of the wavelet transform

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 685-695

  Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a   Di Scalea, Francesco Lanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUSPENSION BRIDGES; TENSILE TESTING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVE TRANSFORMS (DWT); MAGNETOSTRICTIVE SENSORS; MULTI-WIRE STEEL STRANDS; SIGNAL AVERAGING;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 23444450885     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/14/4/027     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Kwun H, Bartels K A and Hanley J J 1998 Effect of tensile loading on the properties of elastic-wave propagation in a strand J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103 3370-5
2. Chen H-L and Wissawapaisal K 2002 Application of Wigner-Ville transform to evaluate tensile forces in seven-wire prestressing strands ASCE J. Eng. Mech. 128 1206-14
3. Washer G A, Green R E and Pond R B 2002 Velocity constants for ultrasonic stress measurements in prestressing tendons Res. Nondestruct. Eval. 14 81-94
4. Lanza di Scalea F, Rizzo P and Seible F 2003 Stress measurement and defect detection in steel strands by guided stress waves ASCE J. Mater. Civil. Eng. 15 219-27
5. Kwun H and Teller C M 1994 Detection of fractured wires in steel cables using magnetostrictive sensors Mater. Eval. 52 503-7
6. Kwun H and Teller C M 1995 Nondestructive evaluation of steel cables and ropes using magnetostrictively induced ultrasonic waves and magnetostrictively detected acoustic emissions US Patent Specification 5,456,113
7. Kwun H and Burkhardt G L 1991 Relationship between reflected signal amplitude and defect size in rope inspection using a transverse-impulse vibrational wave NDT Int. 24 317-9
8. Pavlakovic B N, Lowe M J S and Cawley P 1999 The inspection of tendons in post-tensioned concrete using guided ultrasonic waves Insight 41 446-52
9. Pavlakovic B N, Lowe M J S and Cawley P 2001 High-frequency low-loss ultrasonic modes in imbedded bars ASME J. Appl. Mech. 68 67-75
10. Beard M D, Lowe M J S and Cawley P 2003 Ultrasonic guided waves for inspection of grouted tendons and bolts ASCE J. Mater. Civil Eng. 15 212-8
11. Na W-B and Kundu T 2003 Inspection of interfaces between corroded steel bars and concrete using the combination of a piezoelectric zirconate-titanate transducer and an electromagnetic acoustic transducer Exp. Mech. 43 24-31
12. Na W-B and Kundu T 2002 A combination of PZT and EMAT transducers for interface inspection J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111 2128-39
13. Laura P A A, Vanderveldt H and Gaffney P G 1969 Acoustic detection of structural failure of mechanical cables J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 45 791-3
14. Laura P A A 1985 Acoustic emissions from wire and synthetic ropes Shock Vib. Dig. 17 3-5
15. Casey N F and Laura P A A 1997 A review of the acoustic-emission monitoring of wire ropes Ocean Eng. 24 935-47
16. Rizzo P and Lanza di Scalea F 2001 Acoustic emission monitoring of carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymer bridge stay cables in large-scale testing Exp. Mech. 41 282-90
17. Abbate A, Koay J, Frankel J, Schroeder S C and Das P 1997 Signal detection and noise suppression using a wavelet transform signal processor: application to ultrasonic flaw detection IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 44 14-26
18. Murthy R, Bilgutay N M and Kaya O K 1997 Detection of ultrasonic anomaly signals using wavelet decomposition Mater. Eval. 55 1274-9
19. Legendre S, Massicotte D, Goyette J and Bose T K 2000 Wavelet-transform-based method of analysis for Lamb-wave ultrasonic NDE signals IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 49 524-30
20. Kercel S W, Klein M B and Pouet B 2000 Wavelet and wavelet-packet analysis of Lamb wave signatures in laser ultrasonics SPIE Proc. Wavelet Applications VII 4056 308-17
21. Mallat S G 1989 A theory for multiresolution signal decompostion: the wavelet representation IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 11 674-93
22. Mallat S G 1999 A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing (New York: Academic)
23. Strang G and Nguyen T 1996 Wavelets and Filter Banks (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley-Cambridge Press)
24. Petropulu A 1992 Detection of transients using discrete wavelet transform ICASSP-92: IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust. Speech, Signal Proc. vol 2 pp 477-80
25. Abbate A, Koay J, Frankel J, Schroeder S C and Das P 1994 Application of wavelet transform signal processor to ultrasound Proc. 1994 Ultrasonic Symp. vol 94CH3468-6 pp 1147-52
26. Rizzo P and Lanza di Scalea F 2004 Dispersive wave propagation in multi-wire strands by laser ultrasound and wavelet transform Exp. Mech. 44 407-15
27. Rizzo P and Lanza di Scalea F 2005 Discrete wavelet transform for enhancing defect detection in strands by guided ultrasonic waves Int. J. Struct. Health Monit. submitted
28. Rizzo P and Lanza di Scalea F 2005 Wavelet coefficient analysis for the quantitative determination of damage in tendons and cables SPIE Proc. Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems vol 5765 (Bellingham, WA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press) pp 863-72