Ultrasonic inspection of rocket fuel model using laminated transducer and multi-channel step pulser

T. Mihara, T. Hamajima, H. Tashiro, A. Sato

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Abstract

For the ultrasonic inspection for the packing of solid fuel in a rocket booster, an industrial inspection is difficult. Because the signal to noise ratio in ultrasonic inspection of rocket fuel become worse due to the large attenuation even using lower frequency ultrasound. For the improvement of this problem, we tried to applied the two techniques in ultrasonic inspection, one was the step function pulser system with the super wideband frequency properties and the other was the laminated element transducer. By combining these two techniques, we developed the new ultrasonic measurement system and demonstrated the advantages in ultrasonic inspection of rocket fuel model specimen.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReview of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Volume 32
EditorsDale E. Chimenti, Donald O. Thompson
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
Pages1617-1622
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780735411296
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2012 - Denver, United States
Duration: 2012 Jul 152012 Jul 20

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1511
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, QNDE 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period12/7/1512/7/20

Keywords

  • Laminated Transducer
  • Multi-channel Pulser
  • Solid Rocket Fuel
  • Step Pulser

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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