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2D defect reconstruction from MFL signals by a genetic optimization algorithm

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The magnetic-flux-leakage (MFL) method has established itself as the most widely used inline inspection technique for the evaluation of gas and oil pipelines. An important problem in MFL nondestructive evaluation is the signal inverse problem, wherein the defect profile and its parameters are determined using the information contained in the measured signals. This paper proposes a genetic-algorithm-based inverse algorithm for reconstructing a 2D defect from MFL signals. In the algorithm, a radial-basis-function neural network is used as a forward model and a genetic algorithm is used to solve the optimization problem in the inverse problem. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed inverse algorithm.

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  1. Institute of Automatic Detection, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

    W. Han & P. Que

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From Defektoskopiya, Vol. 41, No. 12, 2005, pp. 50–57.

Original English Text Copyright © 2005 by Han, Que.

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Han, W., Que, P. 2D defect reconstruction from MFL signals by a genetic optimization algorithm. Russ J Nondestruct Test 41, 809–814 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11181-006-0037-0

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