The invention discloses an
ultrasonic guided wave array pipeline defect imaging detection
system and an imaging method. The
system has the advantages of being long in monitoring distance, simple in structure, low in
power consumption and high in imaging precision. The method comprises the steps that firstly, one annular excitation
sensor array and two annular receiving sensor arrays are arranged on a pipeline, the annular receiving sensor arrays are located at the two sides of the annular excitation
sensor array and receive
ultrasonic guided wave signals bidirectionally and simultaneously, bidirectional simultaneous monitoring of the annular excitation
sensor array is realized, the monitoring distance is greatly prolonged, and
system cost is lowered; secondly, array elements of the annularexcitation sensor array sequentially perform excitation, the annular receiving sensor arrays at the two sides receive the
ultrasonic guided wave signals sequentially and cyclically, it is only neededto maintain operation of one excitation
array element and two receiving array elements in the monitoring process, hardware configuration of the system is simplified, operation is performed in a low-power-consumption state, and long-time online monitoring is realized; and thirdly, a pipeline monitoring region is imaged through collected full-matrix data in combination with full-
waveform inversion,
synthetic aperture focusing, full focusing and other algorithms, and positioning and quantitative monitoring of pipeline
corrosion and other defects are realized.