EP3814766A1 - Method and device for nondestructively acoustically examining at least one region of a component of a turbomachine for segregations - Google Patents
Method and device for nondestructively acoustically examining at least one region of a component of a turbomachine for segregationsInfo
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- the invention relates to a method and a device for the non-destructive acoustic examination of at least one area of a component of a turbomachine for segregations.
- segregation denotes segregation of a metal alloy melt when the melt changes to the solid state, which leads to a local increase and / or decrease in certain elements within the mixed crystal of the metal alloy. Segregations therefore result in locally different material properties within a component. For example, so-called “dirty white spots” are known in components of turbomachines, such as engine disks made of nickel-based alloys, which can lead to crack formation during operation of the engine due to long-acting low cycle fatigue loads.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a method for the non-destructive acoustic examination of at least a region of a component of a turbomachine, which method enables anomalies lying inside the component to be identified.
- Another object of the invention is to provide a corresponding device for performing such a method.
- a first aspect of the invention relates to a method for the non-destructive acoustic examination of at least one area of a component of a turbomachine for segregations. Identification of segregations lying inside the component is made possible according to the invention in that at least the steps a) arranging a transmitter comprising a plurality of individual oscillators on the region of the component to be examined, b) irradiating at least one ultrasound bundle into the component by means of the transmitter, c) receiving at least one ultrasound bundle reflected by the component is carried out by means of a receiver comprising a plurality of individual receivers, and d) testing is carried out on the basis of the received ultrasound bundle to determine whether there is a deviation in the region of the component that characterizes segregation.
- an ultrasound bundle is generated with the aid of a transmitter, which can also be referred to as an ultrasound group emitter or multi-element test head, and is irradiated into the area of the component to be examined.
- a transmitter which can also be referred to as an ultrasound group emitter or multi-element test head
- These individual transmitters can be excited individually and / or in groups in order to generate the ultrasound bundle.
- two individual transmitters can be provided, so that, for example, a two-element test head comprising a central oscillator and a ring element can be used as the transmitter.
- the ultrasound bundle is specifically reflected and received as an echo signal by the receiver.
- the receiver Analogous to the transmitter, the receiver has two or more individual receivers and thus allows multi-channel measurement value acquisition of the microstructure exchange signal.
- the individual wavefronts of the ultrasound bundle overlap constructively and destructively and spread out in the component to be tested, being reflected like segregation, cavities, cracks, inclusions, the rear wall of the component and other material boundaries like a conventional ultrasound wave.
- the reflected ultrasound bundle is not subsequently summed up to form a single sum signal, but is retained together with its spatial relationship and can be individually identified and can be used to check for the presence of segregations. This enables particularly reliable and non-destructive identification of segregations lying inside the component and, if applicable, of other anomalies such as inclusions, cavities and the like.
- one / one should be read as indefinite articles within the scope of this disclosure, ie without “explicitly stated otherwise” as “at least one / at least one”. Conversely, “one / one” can also be understood as “only one / only one”. In principle, the method can be carried out on newly manufactured components to control the manufacturing process or also on components that have already been installed or used to check their condition as part of maintenance or overhauls.
- phased array transmitter is used as the transmitter and / or a phased array receiver is used as the receiver.
- a phased array transmitter is a transducer with an organized arrangement (array) of several individual transmitters that are excited in a predetermined sequence in order to generate the ultrasound bundle. Depending on the design, such a transmitter can be arranged directly on the component or in contact or immersion technology.
- the array can generally be a line array, a matrix array, a circular array, or the like. For example, several or all of the individual transmitters can be excited with different or the same phases.
- one, several or all individual transmitters can transmit one after the other and one, several or all individual receivers of the phased array receiver can receive in the correct phase (so-called full matrix capture).
- full matrix capture By clocking all the individual oscillators, the entire volume of the component can be checked in high resolution.
- the transmitter and receiver can be combined in one module or arranged separately from one another.
- at least one false color image is calculated on the basis of the at least one reflected ultrasound bundle, colors of the false color image corresponding to individual amplitudes of the ultrasound bundle, and wherein at least one false color image is used to check whether a deviation that characterizes the component.
- a false color image is understood to mean a matrix of individual points or pixels, the values of the individual pixels corresponding to respective individual amplitudes of the ultrasound bundle and being able to be represented by assigned color values.
- the value 0 can be assigned the color "white”, the value 1 the color "black”, the value 0.5 the color "blue”, etc.
- the color coding of the invention is not restricted to a specific embodiment.
- the individual amplitudes for color coding can also be assigned to different brightness levels of a single color.
- the individual amplitudes of the ultrasound bundle are therefore not summed up to a single value, but remain together with their spatial relationship and can be individually identified and thus evaluated.
- This false color image is then used to check for anomalies in the examined area of the component.
- the check can be carried out, for example, by comparing the false color image with a calculated default image and / or by comparing it with a default image that was determined using a reference component.
- the at least one false color image in step d) is calculated as a gray level image, gray levels of the gray level image corresponding to individual amplitudes of the reflected ultrasound bundle.
- each pixel or pixel can assume, for example, 256 different color or brightness values from 0 (black or white) to 255 (white or black), the corresponding amplitude values of the ultrasound bundle being assigned.
- step d) several false color images are combined to form a stack of images which is used for the test in step d).
- step a) a two-dimensional matrix transmitter with X * Y individual transmitter and / or in step c) a two-dimensional matrix receiver with X * Y individual receiver is used as the transmitter, with X and Y can be selected independently from the set of the whole positive numbers Z> 2.
- the transmitter or receiver does not comprise individual transmitters or individual receivers arranged linearly, but rather flatly along an X and Y axis, the number X of individual transmitters / individual receivers along the X axis being independent of the Number Y of individual transmitters / individual receivers can be selected along the Y axis.
- X and Y can be chosen to be the same or different and each be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or more.
- the array of the transmitter differs from the array of the receiver, as a rule both arrays are preferably chosen to be the same.
- an array with 10 * 10 single transmitters / individual receivers would comprise 100 individual transmitters / individual receivers, while an array with 10 * 11 single transmitters / 110 receivers / individual receivers, an array with 11 * 11 121 individual transmitters / individual receivers etc.
- the size or the volume of the area to be examined can be optimally taken into account, wherein all possible array configurations can be taken into account via a correspondingly dimensioned false color image.
- the ultrasound bundle is generated and irradiated with a frequency between 500 kHz and 20 MHz.
- a frequency between 500 kHz and 20 MHz there are, for example, frequencies of 500 kHz, 550 kHz, 600 kHz, 650 kHz, 700 kHz, 750 kHz, 800 kHz, 850 kHz, 900 kHz, 950 kHz, 1000 kHz, 1.5 MHz, 2.0 MHz, 2.5 MHz, 3.0 MHz, 3.5 MHz, 4.0 MHz, 4.5 MHz, 5.0 MHz, 5.5 MHz, 6.0 MHz, 6.5 MHz, 7.0 MHz, 7.5 MHz, 8.0 MHz, 8.5 MHz, 9.0 MHz, 9.5 MHz, 10.0 MHz, 10.5 MHz, 11.0 MHz, 11.5 MHz, 12.0 MHz, 12.5 MHz, 13.0 MHz, 13.5 MHz, 14.0 MHz, 14.5 MHz
- the ultrasound bundle is irradiated into a surface area of the component with an area between 1 mm 2 and 1000 mm 2 .
- an area between 1 mm 2 and 1000 mm 2 areas of 1 mm 2 , 2 mm 2 ,
- the ultrasound bundle is insonified into the component at an insonification depth between 1 mm and 100 mm.
- insonification depths for example, insonification depths of 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, 10 mm,
- the reflected ultrasound bundle is received in step c) by means of a transmitter as a receiver and / or by means of a receiver separate from the transmitter.
- the transmitter is also used as a receiver or that the transmitter and the receiver are spatially separate elements that can be arranged in separate housings or in a common housing. In this way, the individual geometry of the component to be tested can be optimally taken into account.
- a temporal course of the ultrasound bundles can be determined and used for the test for one and the same test area or for one and the same test volume of the component, for example by determining and evaluating several false color images and / or by the sound signals (structural signatures) being sent to a neural network for evaluation be fed.
- several areas of the component can be checked for segregations and, if appropriate, further anomalies, the transmitter also being moved relative to the component in accordance with step a) in order to sonicate the other areas for testing.
- the ultrasound bundles can be dynamically adjusted so that a single transmitter / receiver can check the entire component to be tested from different perspectives.
- the ultrasound bundle parameters are changed individually or in any combination, so that the component can be checked in a very short time with different angles, with several depths of focus and / or with different levels of detail.
- an artificial neural network which has been trained in particular by a deep leaming method.
- Artificial neural networks are networks of artificial neurons and are particularly suitable for evaluating the false color image (s).
- a computer model learns to carry out classification tasks, for example directly from the false color image or images, which represent the acoustic data.
- ultrasound signals structural signatures
- ultrasound signals can be used directly or in processed form for training the neural network.
- ultrasound signals can be used, for example, which are obtained on a defined test specimen or bad part with one or more local coarse areas.
- Such a qualified test body with artificial segregations which can be characterized, for example, by means of X-ray CT, allows a particularly fast and reliable connection of a neural network.
- a deep leaming model used can, if necessary, also be trained initially using extensive sets of classified data and using neural network architectures.
- a single-layer or multi-layer feedforward network and / or a recurrent network is used.
- the neural network is trained on the basis of at least one good part and / or at least one bad part.
- a good part is understood to mean a component that has already been found to be “in order” in a separate, not necessarily acoustic test and that corresponds to the component to be tested at least to an extent sufficient for the validity of the test result.
- a bad part is understood to mean a component which corresponds sufficiently to the component to be tested and which has one or more known or specifically generated anomalies which are suspected to also occur in the component to be tested. For example, artificially introduced segregations can be present in the bad part, which are used to train the model.
- time signals of the at least one ultrasound bundle are scaled into the human listening area and / or that the at least one ultrasound bundle is evaluated by means of a sound event classification method.
- the ultrasound signal bundle can be evaluated with the aid of signal processing and classification methods from hearing, speech and audio technology, that is to say in the frequency range between about 20 Hertz and about 22 kHz which can be perceived by humans.
- An improved control for a user performing the test method is made possible in a further embodiment of the invention in that at least one false color image and / or one test result is displayed by means of a display device.
- these can also be displayed as a stack of images.
- identified anomalies are identified in at least one false color image. This can be done through the use of sufficiently high-contrast signal colors, through animations or other visual, haptic and / or acoustic information to the user.
- the false color image and / or an identified anomaly is displayed in a possibly transparent or semitransparent 2D / 3D model of the tested component with its correct localization in the component.
- the method according to the invention can also be in the form of a computer program (product) which implements the method on a control unit when it is executed on the control unit.
- a computer program product
- an electronically readable data carrier can be provided with electronically readable control information stored thereon, which include at least one described computer program product and are designed such that they carry out the method according to the invention when the data carrier is used in a control unit.
- a second aspect of the invention relates to a device for performing a method according to the first aspect of the invention.
- the device according to the invention comprises at least one transmitter comprising a plurality of individual oscillators, which can be arranged on at least one area of the component to be examined and by means of which at least one ultrasound bundle can be irradiated into the component, at least one receiver comprising several individual receivers Receiving at least one ultrasound bundle reflected by the component and at least one computing device coupled for data exchange with the receiver, which is set up to check at least one two-dimensional false color image on the basis of the at least one reflected ultrasound bundle whether a deviation characterizing segregation in the region of the Component is present.
- the device according to the invention thus enables identification of segregations lying in the interior of the component to be tested and, if appropriate, of further anomalies.
- the expression “set up to” is to be understood to mean a computing device which not only has general suitability for carrying out the corresponding part of the method according to the first aspect of the invention, but specifically by means of hardware and / or software measures for carrying out the the relevant steps are designed and also carried out when used as intended.
- the computing device usually has a processor device which consists of at least one microprocessor and / or a microcontroller.
- the processor device can have program code which is set up to carry out an embodiment of the method according to the first aspect of the invention when executed by the processor device.
- the program code can be stored in a data memory coupled to the processor device.
- the transmitter is a matrix transmitter, in particular a phased array transmitter and / or that the receiver is a matrix receiver, in particular a phased array receiver.
- the computing device is set up to calculate at least one two-dimensional false color image on the basis of the at least one reflected ultrasound bundle and to check on the basis of the at least one false color image whether there is a deviation characterizing segregation in the area of the component, and / or that the computing device is set up to check on the basis of the at least one reflected ultrasound bundle by means of an artificial neural network, which has been trained in particular by a deep leaming method, whether there is a deviation in the area of the component which characterizes segregation is present.
- the device has a display device for displaying at least one false color image and / or a test result.
- the entire device is preferably designed as a portable device, preferably with its own power supply, so that the ultrasound examination, data processing, testing and image display can be carried out directly on the component or on the turbomachine without additional aids.
- a further aspect of the invention relates to a computer program which can be loaded directly into a memory of a computing device of a device according to the second aspect of the invention, with program means for executing the steps of the method according to the first aspect of the invention when the program is executed in the computing device.
- a further aspect of the invention relates to an electronically readable data carrier with electronically readable control information stored thereon, which comprise at least one computer program according to the preceding aspect of the invention and are designed in such a way that when using the data carrier in a computing device of a device according to the second aspect of the invention, they carry out a method according to the first aspect of the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional view of a component designed as a turbine disk, on which a non-destructive, acoustic examination is carried out;
- FIG. 3 shows a basic illustration of the reception of an ultrasound bundle reflected by a region of the component
- FIG. 6 shows an enlarged detail of area VI shown in FIG. 5; and 7 form a stack of images from a plurality of false colors which follow one another in time.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional view of a component 10 designed as a turbine disk of an aircraft engine, on which a non-destructive, acoustic examination for the presence of anomalies such as segregations in the material of the component 10 is carried out.
- a transmitter 12 with an array of individual transmitters 14 is arranged on an area I of the component 10 to be examined.
- the diameter of the ultrasound bundle 16 is typically set to approximately 1 mm to approximately 3 mm.
- the entire area I of the component 10 from the inside to the outside of the turbine disk 10 can in principle also be checked.
- the transmitter 12 which in the present case is also designed to receive at least one ultrasound bundle 18 reflected by the component 10 (see FIG. 3) as a receiver 20, for example as a phased array receiver, the at least one is generated by the component 10 received reflected ultrasound bundles 18 and transmitted to a computing device 22 for further evaluation.
- the computing device 22 uses the ultrasound bundle 18 to calculate at least one false color image 24 (cf. FIG. 4), the colors of the false color image 24 corresponding to individual amplitudes of the received ultrasound bundle 18.
- the 11 * 11 reflected ultra- sound amplitudes in the 2D false color image 24 which can be, for example, a grayscale image.
- a 2D false color image would have a size of 330 columns and 121 lines for the above-mentioned exemplary insonation depth of 10 mm, a digitization rate of 100 megasamples per second and an exemplary 11 * 11 large matrix array. Large amplitudes can be characterized with dark color values, while small amplitudes can be characterized with light color values.
- Reverse or different coloring can of course also be provided.
- a summation of the individual amplitudes customary in the prior art does not take place.
- positive and negative amplitude values are mapped exclusively in a positive range or characterized exclusively by positive numerical values by means of a corresponding offset, as a result of which inadmissible negative values for individual pixels are reliably avoided.
- other suitable mapping algorithms are also conceivable.
- the computing device 22 is used in one exemplary embodiment to check whether there is a deviation characterizing segregation or other anomaly in the examined area I of the component 10.
- the received ultrasound bundles 18 can be used for testing directly or after scaling from the megahertz to the kilohertz range.
- the test can be carried out, for example, using deep neural networks or a deep leaming model.
- the neural network or the deep leaming model or models used can, in principle, be trained beforehand with the aid of data obtained on good and bad parts.
- the test time is extremely short, since the ultrasound bundles 16, 18 can be generated and processed at the same time or in very short time intervals.
- the entire component 10 can thus be completely checked in a correspondingly short time. It can also be provided that a so-called sound event classification is used to process the ultrasound bundles 18 and to check for the presence of segregations.
- the time signals of the ultrasound bundles 18 can, as already mentioned, first be scaled into the human hearing range and then evaluated for the presence of sound signals which are typical as structural signatures for segregations.
- a pulse 26 is generated by a pulse generator (not shown) and, according to arrow II, forms a basic borrowed optional delay circuit 28 passed. By phase modulation, this generates a plurality of time-shifted pulses 30 which are passed to the piezoelectric individual transmitters 14.
- the individual transmitters 14 are compressed by the pulses 30 at different times and jump back to their original shape after the voltage drop, normally after less than a microsecond. They generate a mechanical energy pulse that generates an ultrasonic wave.
- the individual ultrasound waves form the ultrasound bundle 16, which is optionally emitted in a focused manner in the direction of the area I to be tested.
- only a single individual transmitter 14 is supplied with current in order to emit an ultrasound pulse.
- the reflected ultrasound pulse is received in phase by all individual receivers 32 (so-called full matrix capture).
- full matrix capture By clocking through all the individual transmitters 14, the entire volume of the component 10 can be checked in high resolution in this way, the check being more time-consuming than the other embodiment.
- FIG. 3 shows a basic illustration of the reception of an ultrasound bundle 18 reflected by the examined area I of the component 10.
- the individual ultrasound waves of the reflected ultrasound bundle 18 are received by respective individual receivers 32 of the receiver 20, digitized and sent to the computing device 22, where they can possibly be fed into a
- the false color image 24 is converted and / or transferred to a neural network for evaluation.
- the false color image 24 corresponds, by way of example, to a result obtained with the aid of a 2D matrix transmitter 12 with 5 * 5 individual transmitters 14 or a 2D Matrix receiver 20 with 5 * 5 individual receivers 32 would be obtained. It can be seen that small amplitudes, for example 0.04, were assigned bright color values, while large amplitudes, for example 0.96, were assigned dark color values. Furthermore, it can be seen that not only the amplitude values, but also the local relationship of the individual ultrasound waves, which have formed the ultrasound bundles 16, 18, can be evaluated as evaluable formation is preserved. The false color image 24 can be displayed to an inspector of the component 10.
- FIG. 5 shows an exemplary time signal along a depth range ti of the component over a time t of 3 ps, the depth range ti being between 0 mm and 10 mm, starting from the surface of the component 10. Only the amplitude values S (t) of a single ultrasonic wave from the reflected ultrasound bundle 18 are shown.
- FIG. 6 shows an enlarged detail of area VI shown in FIG. 5. The time interval designated by T between two measured values is approximately 10 ns in the present case, which corresponds to 100 megasamples per second.
- FIG. 7 shows a stack of images 34 consisting of successive false color images 24i, 24 2 , 24 3 etc.
- this also allows the spectral composition of the individual ultrasound waves from which the ultrasound bundle 18 is composed to be taken into account.
- an ultrasound bundle 16 with a frequency of 10 MHz can first be generated, which leads to a corresponding reflected ultrasound bundle 18.
- the frequency of the measurement e.g. B. at 15 MHz or 20 MHz, this results in a large number n of false color images 24 n , which enable a correspondingly precise evaluation and thus a particularly reliable identification of segregations and other anomalies.
- a multichannel acquisition of the structural noise signal of the component 10 is carried out with a slightly time-varying sound direction of the Grobkom area.
- the reflected sound signals (structural signatures) are fed to a neural network.
- the neural network was previously trained for the signature of known segregations using deep leaming. For this, a test body with many defined local coarse grain areas was used.
- the ultrasound bundles are scaled (MHz -> KHz) and classified and evaluated in the human hearing range using a sound event classification procedure.
- parameter values specified in the documents for the definition of process and measurement conditions for the characterization of specific properties of the subject matter of the invention are also within the scope of deviations - for example due to measurement errors, system errors, weighing errors, DDM tolerances and the like - than within the scope of the invention included to look at.
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