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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2013.16.3.171

Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements of Engineering Plastic Cores by Pulse-echo-overlap Method Using Cross-correlation  

Lee, Sang Kyu (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Lee, Tae Jong (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Kim, Hyoung Chan (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.16, no.3, 2013 , pp. 171-179 More about this Journal
Abstract
An automated ultrasonic velocity measurement system adopting pulse-echo-overlap (PEO) method has been constructed, which is known to be a precise and versatile method. It has been applied to velocity measurements for 5 kinds of engineering plastic cores and compared to first arrival picking (FAP) method. Because it needs multiple reflected waves and waves travel at least 4 times longer than FAP, PEO has basic restriction on sample length measurable. Velocities measured by PEO showed slightly lower than that by FAP, which comes from damping and diffusive characteristics of the samples as the wave travels longer distance in PEO. PEO, however, can measure velocities automatically by cross-correlating the first echo to the second or third echo, so that it can exclude the operator-oriented errors. Once measurable, PEO shows essentially higher repeatability and reproducibility than FAP. PEO system can diminish random noises by stacking multiple measurements. If it changes the experimental conditions such as temperature, saturation and so forth, the automated PEO system in this study can be applied to monitoring the velocity changes with respect to the parameter changes.
Keywords
cross-correlation; pulse-echo-overlap; first arrival picking; Engineering plastic core; ultrasonic velocity;
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