SAFTINSPECT
Ultrasonic Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique for Inspection of Railway Crossings (Frogs)
| Coordinatore | TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.saftinspect.eu |
| Totale costo | 1˙397˙294 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙092˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2012 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-11-01 - 2014-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 93˙012.50 |
| 2 |
"AIRTREN, S.L."
Organization address
address: CALLE JOSE LOMBANA IGLESIAS 14 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 282˙973.00 |
| 3 |
PRECISION ACOUSTICS LIMITED
Organization address
address: SOUTH TERRACE - SOUTH STREET 4 contact info |
UK (DORCHESTER) | participant | 229˙675.00 |
| 4 |
MICROTEST SA
Organization address
address: CALLE VALLE DE TOBALINA NAVE 10 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 216˙850.00 |
| 5 |
PERFORMANCE IN COLD AB
Organization address
address: ORNVIKSVAGEN 61 contact info |
SE (LULEA) | participant | 213˙613.50 |
| 6 |
LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: University Campus, Porsoen contact info |
SE (LULEA) | participant | 33˙900.00 |
| 7 |
TRAFIKVERKET - TRV
Organization address
address: RODA VAGEN 1 contact info |
SE (BORLANGE) | participant | 21˙976.00 |
| 8 |
ALBA ULTRASOUND LIMITED
Organization address
address: "WEST OF SCOTLAND SCIENCE PARK, TODD CAMPUS UNIT 1, BLOCK 3" contact info |
UK (GLASGOW) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The European rail infrastructure employs high manganese, high strength steel components at safety critical locations such as crossings. Restricted access to these assets limits the range of NDT techniques available for in-service inspection to those capable of inspection from the top surface. Conventional ultrasonic inspection of high manganese steel is ineffective due to the inherent coarse grain structure and the highly anisotropic and non-homogeneous material properties; low material penetration, high scattering and beam divergence contribute to low signal-to-noise ratio of reflected signals. Conventional dual phased array techniques (with transmitter/receiver pair) have been applied in conjunction with processing features such as spatial averaging and dynamic depth focussing. However, this approach is highly inefficient and therefore inappropriate for practical deployment.
The SAFTInspector proposal will enable efficient in-service inspection of manganese rail assets by applying Phased Array UT full matrix capture in combination with a novel post processing technique called Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT). This technique increases the available angular range of inspection by synthesising a large aperture transducer; therefore spatially averaging noise contributions from grain structure, allowing an increase in Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) and increasing the potential signal response from a defect.
The aim is to design a novel array transducer working in a full matrix capture (FMC) mode. This novel design will enable efficient acquisition of data for SAFT processing. SAFT post processing will generate 2D and 3D reconstructions of the ultrasonic volumetric image to produce a simple pass or fail indication for the user. This will dramatically reduce the time required at the asset and effectively remove the need for additional interpretation by highly skilled operators.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Ultrasound is commonly used to detect structural damage in rail infrastructure but current technology is not useful for safety-critical crossing points (frogs). With EU support, scientists will soon deliver the much-needed inspection system.