Research on laser ultrasonic surface defect identification based on a support vector machine

To solve the problem of difficult quantitative identification of surface defect depth during laser ultrasonic inspection, a support vector machine-based method for quantitative identification of surface rectangular defect depth is proposed. Based on the thermal-elastic mechanism, the finite element model for laser ultrasound inspection of aluminum materials containing surface defects was developed by using the finite element software COMSOL. The interaction process between laser ultrasound and rectangular defects was simulated, and the reflected wave signals corresponding to defects of different depths under pulsed laser irradiation were obtained. Laser ultrasonic detection experiments were conducted for surface defects of different depths, and multiple sets of ultrasonic signal waveform were collected, and several feature vectors such as time-domain peak, center frequency peak, waveform factor and peak factor were extracted by using MATLAB, the quantitative defect depth identification model based on support vector machine was established. The experimental results show that the laser ultrasonic surface defect identification model based on support vector machine can achieve high accuracy prediction of defect depth, the regression coefficient of determination is kept above 0.95, and the average relative error between the true value and the predicted value is kept below 10%, and the prediction accuracy is better than that of the reflection echo method and BP neural network model.