Multichannel filtering and reconstruction of ultrasonic guided wave fields using time intercept-slowness transform.

Multichannel ultrasonic axial-transmission data are multimodal by nature. As guided waves are commonly used in nondestructive material testing, wave field filtering becomes important because the analysis is usually limited to a few lower-order modes and requires their extraction. An application of the Radon transform to enhance signal-to-noise ratio and separate wave fields in ultrasonic records is presented. The method considers guided wave fields as superpositions of plane waves defined by ray parameters (p) and time intercepts (τ) and stacks the amplitudes along linear trajectories, mapping time-offset (t - x) data to a τ - p or Radon panel. The transform is implemented using a least-squares strategy with Cauchy-norm regularization that serves to enhance the focusing power. The method was verified using simulated data and applied to an uneven spatially sampled bovine-bone-plate data set. The results demonstrate the Radon panels show isolated amplitude clusters and the Cauchy-norm constraint provides a more focused Radon image than the damped least-squares regularization. Wave field separation can be achieved by selectively windowing the τ - p signals and inverse transformation, which is illustrated by the successful extraction of the A0 mode in bone plate. In addition, the method effectively attenuates noise, enhances the coherency of the guided wave modes, and reconstructs the missing records. The proposed transform presents a powerful signal-enhancement tool to process guided waves for further analysis and inversion.

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