Abstract
Nondestructive evaluation (NDE)/nondestructive testing (NDT) of industrial manufactured items holds a strategic importance both for the quality assessment of the productive process and for taking monitoring actions during the relative life cycle. Since the quality assessment passes through the characterization of the defects that can be generated, it is imperative to exploit inspection techniques able to produce signals characterizing the defects themselves. Current inspection techniques do not provide, for several reasons, signals free from errors, inaccuracies and imprecision, so, in the information-processing step, it is necessary to face the problem by approaches capable of taking into account the inherent vagueness . While the form reconstruction of a defect is still an open problem, its localization and classification has been carried out with excellent results by the scientific community with the development of efficient and accurate methodologies also in terms of vagueness management . Considering the technological transfer point of view, the approaches developed so far are burdened by a less than desirable computational complexity that translates into expensive hardware requirements. For this reason, it is necessary to elaborate alternative methodologies capable of combining high-quality results and low-computational complexity. Specifically, among the many possible computing techniques, attention is given to the soft techniques, and in particular, to the fuzzy logic (FL). The latter, generalizing dichotomic logic and taking into account the vagueness of signals, can deliver results comparable as a whole to those obtainable by more sophisticated techniques, but with a reduced computational charge. Moreover, the formalization in terms of natural language (NL) leads to the structuring of systems managed by legible linguistic rules even by nonexperts in the field and, at the same time, easily revisable by the expert. The present chapter is completely dedicated to introduce the reader to the basic principles of the logic of fuzzy inference system (FIS), applied functionally within NDE/NDT, presenting an example of study of the inverse problem.
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Set of inputs.
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That is, the output.
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The correct position will be guaranteed by the first two inputs of the procedure.
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Top, middle, and bottom delamination; top, middle, and bottom inclusion; porosity; no defects.
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The step of the scanning procedure must be set taking into account the diameter of the hole with respect to the length of the sensor.
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The gradient vector can be considered as a sort of measure of the goodness of the input/output modeling.
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Versaci, M., Calcagno, S., Cacciola, M., Morabito, F., Palamara, I., PellicanĂ², D. (2015). Standard Soft Computing Techniques for Characterization of Defects in Nondestructive Evaluation. In: Burrascano, P., Callegari, S., Montisci, A., Ricci, M., Versaci, M. (eds) Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10566-6_6
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