Due to the overlapping of echoes from the inner and outer walls of thin⁃walled tubes,thickness measurement based on ultrasonic time⁃of⁃flight method is difficult to apply.Therefore,the ultrasonic resonance method has ...Due to the overlapping of echoes from the inner and outer walls of thin⁃walled tubes,thickness measurement based on ultrasonic time⁃of⁃flight method is difficult to apply.Therefore,the ultrasonic resonance method has become an effective mean of measuring thin⁃walled tube thickness.The resonance method often demands a perpendicular incidence of ultrasound,but having the ultrasonic probe strictly perpendicular to the measured surface is challenging for installation reasons.The ultrasonic resonance model by considering ultrasonic inclination angles is derived.The model explains that an inclination angle theoretically does not affect the calculation results of measuring thin thickness.However,increasing the inclination angle reduces the reflection coefficient,resulting in a shorter length of the effective reflected wave,thus reducing the calculation accuracy.Additionally,the research evaluated the ultrasonic echo from the tubes of different diameters and found that if ultrasound transmits with an inclined incidence,smaller diameter tubes result in lower normal reflection coefficients,leading to poorer measurement accuracy.The research simulated and tested the tilted⁃incidence resonant method based on the subject of water⁃steel⁃air,and the results prove the correctness of the model.展开更多
文摘Due to the overlapping of echoes from the inner and outer walls of thin⁃walled tubes,thickness measurement based on ultrasonic time⁃of⁃flight method is difficult to apply.Therefore,the ultrasonic resonance method has become an effective mean of measuring thin⁃walled tube thickness.The resonance method often demands a perpendicular incidence of ultrasound,but having the ultrasonic probe strictly perpendicular to the measured surface is challenging for installation reasons.The ultrasonic resonance model by considering ultrasonic inclination angles is derived.The model explains that an inclination angle theoretically does not affect the calculation results of measuring thin thickness.However,increasing the inclination angle reduces the reflection coefficient,resulting in a shorter length of the effective reflected wave,thus reducing the calculation accuracy.Additionally,the research evaluated the ultrasonic echo from the tubes of different diameters and found that if ultrasound transmits with an inclined incidence,smaller diameter tubes result in lower normal reflection coefficients,leading to poorer measurement accuracy.The research simulated and tested the tilted⁃incidence resonant method based on the subject of water⁃steel⁃air,and the results prove the correctness of the model.
