Open AccessMagneto-optical imaging characteristics of weld defects under alternating magnetic field excitation
Author(s) -
Xiangdong Gao,
Nvjie Ma,
Liangliang Du
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.26.009972
Subject(s) - materials science , excitation , welding , nondestructive testing , optics , brightness , magnetic flux leakage , magneto optical , magnetic field , penetration depth , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper examines the characteristics of magneto-optical images of weld defects under alternating magnetic field excitation. Weld defects such as non-penetration, surface cracks and sub-surface cracks were detected by a magneto-optical imaging method. Magneto-optical imaging nondestructive testing experiments under alternating magnetic field excitation were carried out to detect the weld defects. Image processing methods which include contrast enhancement of original image, fused image, contrast enhancement of fused image were applied to extract the defect information of the magneto-optical images. What's more, the difference among the magneto-optical images of weld defects was obtained by contrast analysis. Experimental results show that non-penetration welding images possess significant differences in brightness and darkness, and this difference in cracks is smaller than non-penetrating ones. Under the same excitation conditions, the leakage flux of welds with non-penetration is stronger than that of weld cracks.