EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ELASTIC WEAVE DIFFRACTION AT MODELLED CRACK
Small opening notches are used to simulate cracks in butt welds. The study of the influence of the notch edges orientation on their detectability when using pulse-echo and diffraction methods of ultrasonic testing. It is shown that the processes occurring during the elastic waves scattering on cracks must be modeled by a three-dimensional problem. However, theoretical analytical and numerical studies in this area most often concern two-dimensional problems of elastic waves diffraction, when the target studied edge is located on the acoustic axis of the ultrasound transmitter and / or receiver and is oriented perpendicular to the incident beam. The article presents experimental results illustrating the influence of the target point (edge) orientation in three-dimensional problems on the received signals both when using diffraction schemes of the TOFD type, and in the classical ultrasonic testing by the pulse-echo method according to the "tandem" scheme and with the turn of the transducers according to the "duet ".