Work place: Air Force Institute of Technology, Warsaw, 01-494, Poland
E-mail: krzysztof.dragan@itwl.pl
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Research Interests: Engineering, Image Processing, Image Manipulation, Image Compression
Biography
Krzysztof Dragan received his MS degree in 2001 from Applied Physics in Military University of Technology in Warsaw and PhD degree in 2008 from Air Force Institute of Technology. He is an assistant professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, and the deputy of head of the Division of Airworthiness at the same Institute. His research interests include non-destructive testing of composite structures, health monitoring of the aerial vehicles, advanced signal and image processing. Dr. Dragan is a member of the Polish Society of NDT (since 2003), the Polish Society for Composite Materials (since 2010), the International Commercial Aerospace Composite Repair Committee within SAE (since 2011) and the National Aerospace NDT Board (since 2009).
By Angelika Wronkowicz Andrzej Katunina Krzysztof Dragan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2015.11.01, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2015
Following the "on condition maintenance" approach used for extending service life of an aircraft one of the major tasks is a nondestructive testing of its critical elements. Considering that many of elements of operated aircraft are manufactured from polymeric composites a special attention should be paid for diagnosing these elements due to their high vulnerability to barely visible impact damage. One of the primary testing techniques used for inspection of aircraft composite elements is an ultrasonic C-Scan technique which application results in planar images of emitted/received wave attenuation and a time of flight map. Due to the complex nature of barely visible impact damage occurrence it is difficult to analyze resulting C-Scan images. Therefore, using assistance based on image processing may help with "big–data" analysis of collected images. In this paper the authors proposed the image processing algorithm for semi-automatic evaluation of such damage distribution in aircraft composite structures. The algorithm is based on multilevel Otsu thresholding and morphological processing. Using the proposed algorithm an extraction of damage visualization from a C-Scan image as well as its characterization and 3D representation is possible. The developed approach will allow supporting diagnosing of composite structures with impact damage using C-Scan technique.
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