Profile recognition and quantitative evaluation of corrosion in coated conductors based on PMEC with the modified Theta Map

Abstract

Coated conductive structures play an important role in such industrial fields as aerospace, energy, chemical engineering, etc. Because of the corrosive and hostile environments, the corrosion which is normally hidden under the conductor coating, occurs in the surface of the in-service structure. It poses a severe threat to the integrity and safety of the structure. Therefore, it is imperative to effectively detect and quantitatively evaluate the hidden corrosion via Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques. Pulse-modulation Eddy Current technique (PMEC) has been identified to be superior to other electromagnetic NDE methods, particularly regarding evaluation and imaging of corrosion. Whereas, the acquired corrosion images hardly indicate the true opening profile of the corrosion. This hinders the quantitative evaluation of the corrosion. In light of this, in this paper PMEC along with the image processing technique for imaging and evaluation of corrosion in coated conductors is intensively investigated. The image processing technique is proposed based on Theta Map (TM) which is a processing method for quantifying the source parameters of magnetic data that describe the anomalous structure. The validity of PMEC combined with modified TM for profile recognition and assessment of hidden corrosion in nonmagnetic structures is identified via experiments.

Keywords

Electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation pulse-modulation eddy current inspection corrosion imaging Theta Map profile recognition

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