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Serge Dos Santos et al, 8 th Workshop NDT in Progress, CNDT, Prague 12-15 oct, 2015 Nonlinear Time Reversal for Non Destructive Testing of complex medium : a review based on multi-physics experiments and signal processing strategies Serge DOS SANTOS 1* , Martin LINTS 1,2 , Nathalie POIROT 3 , Zuzana DVORAKOVA 1,4 , Andrus SALUPERE 2 , Michael CALIEZ 5 and Zdenek PREVOROVSKY 4* ( * Full Member of the Academia NDT International) 1 INSA Centre Val de Loire, campus Blois , UMR 930 « Imaging and Brain », Inserm, University of Tours, 3, Rue de la Chocolaterie CS 23410, F-41034 BLOIS cedex, France 2 Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia 3 GREMAN, CNRS, IUT de Blois, 15 rue de la chocolaterie, 41000 Blois, France 4 Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR, v.v.i., Dolejskova 5, CZ-18200, Prague 8, Czech Republic 5 LMR EA2640, 3 rue de la Chocolaterie, 41034 Blois, France [email protected]

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Serge Dos Santos et al, 8th Workshop NDT in Progress, CNDT, Prague 12-15 oct, 2015

Nonlinear Time Reversal for Non Destructive Testing of complex medium : a review based on multi-physics

experiments and signal processing strategies

Serge DOS SANTOS 1*, Martin LINTS 1,2, Nathalie POIROT 3, Zuzana DVORAKOVA 1,4, Andrus SALUPERE 2, Michael CALIEZ 5

and Zdenek PREVOROVSKY 4* ( * Full Member of the Academia NDT International)

1 INSA Centre Val de Loire, campus Blois , UMR 930 « Imaging and Brain », Inserm,

University of Tours, 3, Rue de la Chocolaterie CS 23410, F-41034 BLOIS cedex, France 2 Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia

3 GREMAN, CNRS, IUT de Blois, 15 rue de la chocolaterie, 41000 Blois, France 4 Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR, v.v.i., Dolejskova 5, CZ-18200, Prague 8, Czech Republic

5 LMR EA2640, 3 rue de la Chocolaterie, 41034 Blois, France

[email protected]

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Content Introduction

Principle of Time Reversal (TR) based NEWS techniques

Future trends for NDT (Non Destructive Testing) and potentiality for medical imaging

Methods and Materials

The porcine skin, human tooth and Tuffeau limestones as a reverberating

complex media

The nonlinear ultrasound (US) signature as an indication of degradation

Nonlinear Signal Processing : Pulse Inversion (PI) method

Results

Conclusions, Discussion and Perspective

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Advantage of ultrasonic nonlinear waves

How to detect smaller cracks :

Increase the frequency of ultrasound …

consequence : increase of attenuation …

Solution :

… increase the ultrasonic power …

consequence : nonlinear effets are created (harmonics)

Advantage :

« Natural » increase of the frequency thanks to harmonics

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Time Reversal (TR) for NEWS

NEWS : Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy

What is the nonlinear signature due to damaged area ?

A high level of ultrasound is needed

How to localize sources of nonlinearity ?

Time Reversal (TR)

Signal processing method using correlation and convolution methods

Retrofocused signal with high level of ultrasound (for NL effects)

Temporal focusing : reconstruction of coherent tone-burst signals

Spatial focusing : analysis on localized point : the focused region

(practically measurements are done with laser interferometers )

M. Fink , France

IEEE Trans on UFFC (1992)

K. Van Den Abeele, P.A. Johnson, and A. Sutin. Res. Nondestr. Eval. (2000)

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Nonlinear Acoustics and TR TR : Time Reversal (M. Fink, France). It combines advantages :

of increasing the acoustic pressure stress localization

The local evaluation of the medium (which could be highly nonlinear) using global complex and dispersive response of the whole medium (which is mostly linear)

It assumes a powerfull symmetry between sources and receivers : reciprocity

source objective

time

source objective

time

Power not localized !

Localized power !

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TR-NEWS Dos Santos et al, French

Congress of Acoustics, 2006

Le Bas et al,

ECNDT 2006 Berlin

Dos Santos et al,

NDT in progress 2009

this work !

Multi-modal TR-NEWS : the objective !

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TR-NEWS : the physical meaning of the autocorrelation function

Convolution equation Correlation fonction

TR-NEWS process is a way to understand the physical interpretation

(energetically) of the autocorrelation function of a complex medium

TR-NEWS

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T. Goursolle, S. Dos Santos, O. Bou Matar, and S.

Callé, Non-linear based time reversal acoustic

applied to crack detection: Simulations and experiments, Int. J. Non-Linear Mech.

43, 170 (2008)

Nonlinear Time Reversal for localization of nonlinear sources

Nonlinear Time Reversal in a chaotic system for extraction of localized nonlinear electromagnetic signatures

Synopsis: Alice and Bob Go Nonlinear APS/Carin Cain

Perspectives : symbiosis between Time Reversal Techniques, chaotic waves, nonlinear dynamics and NDT of local activity

New area of Research and New innovations : cryptography and secured and coded communications

"Nonlinear Time Reversal in a Wave Chaotic System", par Matthew Frazier, Biniyam Taddese Thomas Antonsen and Steven M. Anlage, Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 063902 (2013)

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Coded Signal processing from Medical applications

and

Symmetry Analysis

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Linear medium

x(t)

x(t) y(t)

Nonlinear Signal Processing : Symmetrization of Excitation with Pulse Inversion (PI)

Nonlinear medium

Nonlinear signature

- y(t)

y(t)

Experiments : measurements in the time domain !!

- x(t)

1

1

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Nonlinear signature extraction with Chirp coded Pulse Inversion : substraction of responses

1 -1 -1

-1

-1

-1

Nonlinear signature extraction with Pulse Inversion : addition of responses

correlation ~ impulse response

• linear response of systems

• chirp-coded response and correlation

TR-NEWS

Symmetry associated to chirp-coding

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Pulse Inversion (PI) method Inversion group (C2) interpretation

Extension for the 3rd

order nonlinearity

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Higher order Pulse Inversion (PI) method : ESAM

C3 character table and irreducible representation

New « symmetrized » excitations

S. Dos Santos and C. Plag. Excitation symmetry analysis method (ESAM) for calculation of higher

order nonlinearities, International Journal of NonLinear Mechanics, 43 :164–169, 2008

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Application of ESAM signal processing

Nonlinear ultrasonic time reversal mirrors in NDT, Zdenek Prevorovsky, Czech Academy of Science, Academia NDT lecture at WCNDT, Durban (2012)

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TR-NEWS imaging of the tooth

TR-NEWS TR-NEWS TR-NEWS

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Imaging of the tooth

after focusing

Imaging of the

tooth before

focusing

S. Dos Santos and Z. Prevorovsky, Imaging of human tooth using ultrasound based chirp-coded nonlinear time reversal acoustics, Ultrasonics, 51(6) :667–674, 2011., DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.01.008 .

B-scan echodentography

Nonlinear signature

Future work : include

tooth topography data

with other modality

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Efficiency of TR-NEWS in complex medium :

reverberant medium is an advantage ! !

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Strategies for TR-NEWS focusing improvement and nonlinear

measurements : chaotic transducer

Bou Matar et al, On the use of a chaotic cavity transducer in nonlinear elastic imaging, Applied Physics Letters 95,

141913 2009

Le Bas et al,

ECNDT 2006, Berlin

For TR-NEWS based focusing, “long time coda” is needed :

Reverberation (or dispersion or memory) should be present in the “transducing device”

Chaotic cavities should be preferred in order to reduce “symmetry” effects

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Localisation and classification

Serge Dos Santos, Zuzana Farova, Vaclav Kus and Zdenek Prevorovsky, Time Reversal Based NEWS methods for Localization and Classification of

Nonlinear Vibrations in Bio-Mechanical Media, in proceedings of the ICSV20, Bangkok, Tailand, (2013)

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Classification of nonlinear signatures

TR-NEWS signal

Classification

Clusters

Nonlinear and localized signatures of material can be classified

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skin

Degradation memory of the material

(memristor for NDT ? )

Ageing memory of the skin (see Leon Chua lecture)

NDT

stress s

strain e

TR-NEWS for skin US imaging

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Acousto-mechanical loadings and PM-space indentification

PM space

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Multiscale modeling and PM identification

Cyclic tension test – strain rate 0.01s-1

Very strong softening

Hyperelastic-like behavior

Stress stabilization for about 150 cycles

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Tension test – strain measurement by Digital Image Correlation

Strain localization = damage (but the strain is about 25%)

Sample with speckle pattern Digital Image Correlation with Correli Q4

Acousto-mechanical loadings

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Aging and Cultural heritage TR-NEWS on Tuffeau limestones

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(a): ATD/DSC analysis of the Tuffeau limestone. The slope temperature was chosen to 10°C/mn. The transition observed at 800°C

corresponds to the CaCO3 decomposition. (b): FTIR analysis performed in the frequency range [3650:650]cm-1 where CaCO3 vibration

modes are identified.

Multi-modal TR-NEWS

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Nonlinear acoustics for complex composites structures

Complex composite :

144 layers !

Dispersive properties …

Damaged composite : nonlinear behavior …

Nonlinearity + dispersion = soliton propagation …

M. Lints et al , 2015

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[1] S. Dos Santos, S. Vejvodova and Z. Prevorovsky, "Nonlinear signal processing for ultrasonic imaging of material complexity"; Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 59, Issue 2, pp. 108–117 (2010), http://www.kirj.ee/proceedings?id=17029

Group Theory and Signal Processing

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Group Theory, Signal Processing and NDT

Nonlinear Mixing, Lectio Materia, Academia NDT

Nonlinear Signal Processing using Group theory representations

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Delayed TR-NEWS for solitonic excitation

Perspectives

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TR-NEWS 2D simulations : ISNA17 2005

3D simulations : T. Goursolle et al, JASA 2007

A. Sutin et al., ISNA17, PennState, 2005

Image

finale

ECNDT 2006

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Conclusion An acousto-mechanical TR-NEWS innovation has been presented

New perspectives for Medical Imaging and NDT in complex samples

TR-NEWS is a progressive method, which uses energy focusing during the

time-reversal process, and the influence of nonlinearity on the TR system

response

connection of TR techniques represents powerful technique for extraction of

nonlinearity in a medium

PM space analysis has been performed in order extract nonlinearity

properties (memory of the skin)

Perspective

Nonlinear Time Reversal based methods can have new applications in many

areas of research – testing of biomaterials (bone, skin, tooth, etc.),

cryptography, nondestructive testing …

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Acknowledgements and Collaborations Developpement of TR-NEWS based approach in NDT

USA : A. Sutin and A. Sarvazyan (TR-NEWS experimentation for NDT and bubbles)

Belgium : K. Van den Abeele (AERONEWS EU project ,TR-NEWS methods for cracks)

Spain : V. Sanchez Morcillo (TR-NEWS optimization of focusing with phononic cavities)

France : O. Bou Matar (TR-NEWS simulations), V. Gusev (Nonlinear Acoustics)

Czech Rep : Z. Prevorovsky and V. Kus (TR-NEWS and AE, ESAM-DORT signal processing)

Germany : M. Kreutzbruck ( TR-NEWS for CFRP, multi-modality)

UK : T. Stratoudaki (bimodality laser/US for TR-NEWS, invited researcher )

Germany : S. Hirsekorn (nonlinear NDT; invited researcher at INSA Centre Val de Loire)

Spain : V. Sanchez Morcillo (Nonlinear acoustics /nonlinear optics, inv. researcher)

Latvia : V. Kurtenoks (TR system instrumentation; electronics)

USA : Leon O. Chua (memristive effects ; nonlinear systems; signal processing)

Estonia : A. Salupere, M. Lints (solitonic TR-NEWS)

U930 « Imaging and Brain », Inserm-Université de Tours (GIP Ultrasons), GREMAN UMR 7347 CNRS-CEA

Abellard A.-P., Bouakaz A., Callé S., Chaline J., Domenjoud M., Farova Z., Feuillard G., Fortineau J., Girault JM, Guilloteau D., Goursolle T., Haumesser L., Lethiecq M., Lint M., Novell A., Papouskova J., Patat F., Plag C., Pourcelot L., Remenieras J.P., Tran P., Vander Meulen F., Vila M.

Council Members (2010) of Academia NDT International ( www.academia-ndt.org )

Dr. G. Nardoni (President), Prof. Vladimir V. Klyuev, Dr. Baldev Raj, Prof. Vjera Krstelj

Dr. Ing. Rainer Link, Dr. Sotirios J. Vahaviolos

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Thank you ! Questions !

[email protected]

This work is supported by the Région Centre-Val de Loire (France)

under the PLET project