Advanced Integration of Neural Networks for Characterizing Voids in Welded Strips

Within the framework of aging materials inspection, one of the most important aspects regards defects detection in metal welded strips. In this context, it is important to plan a method able to distinguish the presence or absence of defects within welds as well as a robust procedure able to characterize the defect itself. In this paper an innovative solution that exploits a rotating magnetic field is presented. This approach has been carried out by a Finite Element Model. Within this framework, it is necessary to consider techniques able to offer advantages in terms of sensibility of analysis, strong reliability, speed of carrying out, low costs: its implementation can be a useful support for inspectors. To this aim, it is necessary to solve inverse problems which are mostly ill-posed: in this case, the main problems consist on both the accurate formulation of the direct problem and the correct regularization of the inverse electromagnetic problem. In the last decades, a useful and very performing way to regularize ill-posed inverse electromagnetic problems is based on the use of a Neural Network approach, the so called “learning by sample techniques”.