Reconstruction of Crack Clusters in the Rectangular Domain by Ultrasonic Waves

In the present article we study the reconstruction problem for clusters of linear cracks inside a rectangular domain. The parameters to be reconstructed are the number of cracks and the size and slope of each defect. The scanning is performed by a single ultrasonic transducer placed at a certain boundary point. The input data, used for the reconstruction algorithm, is taken as measured oscillation amplitudes over an array of chosen boundary points. The proposed numerical algorithm is tested on some examples with multiple clusters of cracks whose position and geometry are known a priori.

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