Simulation Study on the Characteristics of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastics in Electromagnetic Tomography Nondestructive Evaluation Systems

Author

Liu, Ze ; Xu, Yu ; Zhang, Xiaofei ; Pei, Yali ; Cheng, Yiping ; Yin, Wuliang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 March 2010

Firstpage

382

Lastpage

385

Abstract

Simulations of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) using the finite element method in electromagnetic tomography nondestructive evaluation systems are presented in this paper. Ansoft Maxwell 3D models describing the interaction of the sensors with both unidirectional and cross-woven plate samples are built and analyzed to show the CFRP orientations. A circular sensors array is designed and 400 test holes are punched through the CFRP plate respectively in order to acquire the sensitivity matrix data based on which the image of the plate can be reconstructed. Calculation shows that the proposed method can roughly sense the damaged area.

Keywords

carbon fibre reinforced plastics; computerised tomography; finite element analysis; nondestructive testing; sensor arrays; Ansoft Maxwell 3D models; carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics; circular sensors array; cross-woven plate; electromagnetic tomography; finite element method; nondestructive evaluation systems; plate image; sensitivity matrix data; sensor interaction; test holes; unidirectional-woven plate; Conductivity; Ferrites; Finite element methods; Image reconstruction; Inspection; Plastics; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Testing; Tomography; Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP); electromagnetic tomography (EMT); finite element; nondestructive evaluation (NDE); sensitivity matrix;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5001-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5739-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMTMA.2010.787

Filename

5459492