An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage
A new versatile and geometrically reconfigurable ultrasonic tomography system (UTS) has been designed to inspect and obtain information about the internal structure and inner damage of columns in heritage buildings. This nondestructive system is considered innovative because it aims to overcome comm...
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| author | Sofía Aparicio Secanellas Juan Carlos Liébana Gallego Guillermo Anaya Catalán Rodrigo Martín Navarro Javier Ortega Heras Miguel Ángel García Izquierdo Margarita González Hernández José Javier Anaya Velayos |
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| description | A new versatile and geometrically reconfigurable ultrasonic tomography system (UTS) has been designed to inspect and obtain information about the internal structure and inner damage of columns in heritage buildings. This nondestructive system is considered innovative because it aims to overcome common limitations of existing systems. Tomographic inspections are typically carried out manually and are thus limited to small portions of construction elements. The proposed UTS allows the automatization of the inspection and the generation of numerous tomographic slices along the height of the column. It is valid for multiple types of columns and materials. In the present work, the system was tested on two limestone columns of the north façade of the Convent of Carmo in Lisbon, Portugal. The UTS is composed of a mechanical and an electronic system. The mechanical system consists of four linear motion subsystems mounted in a square setup. A transducer is placed on each of the axes, acting as emitter or receiver of the ultrasonic signals. The mechanical system also includes a guide system to adapt the inspections to the complex geometry of the columns. The electronic system allows the control and the synchronization of the movements and the emission/reception configuration of the four ultrasonic transducers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22b102dc81a343b08f6fe966323d907a2023-11-23T14:12:06ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-09-012217664610.3390/s22176646An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural HeritageSofía Aparicio Secanellas0Juan Carlos Liébana Gallego1Guillermo Anaya Catalán2Rodrigo Martín Navarro3Javier Ortega Heras4Miguel Ángel García Izquierdo5Margarita González Hernández6José Javier Anaya Velayos7Institute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInformation Processing and Telecommunications Centre, Av. Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainInstitute of Physical and Information Technologies Leonardo Torres Quevedo (ITEFI), CSIC, C/Serrano 114, 28006 Madrid, SpainA new versatile and geometrically reconfigurable ultrasonic tomography system (UTS) has been designed to inspect and obtain information about the internal structure and inner damage of columns in heritage buildings. This nondestructive system is considered innovative because it aims to overcome common limitations of existing systems. Tomographic inspections are typically carried out manually and are thus limited to small portions of construction elements. The proposed UTS allows the automatization of the inspection and the generation of numerous tomographic slices along the height of the column. It is valid for multiple types of columns and materials. In the present work, the system was tested on two limestone columns of the north façade of the Convent of Carmo in Lisbon, Portugal. The UTS is composed of a mechanical and an electronic system. The mechanical system consists of four linear motion subsystems mounted in a square setup. A transducer is placed on each of the axes, acting as emitter or receiver of the ultrasonic signals. The mechanical system also includes a guide system to adapt the inspections to the complex geometry of the columns. The electronic system allows the control and the synchronization of the movements and the emission/reception configuration of the four ultrasonic transducers.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/17/6646ultrasonic tomographycultural heritageautomationsignal processing |
| spellingShingle | Sofía Aparicio Secanellas Juan Carlos Liébana Gallego Guillermo Anaya Catalán Rodrigo Martín Navarro Javier Ortega Heras Miguel Ángel García Izquierdo Margarita González Hernández José Javier Anaya Velayos An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage Sensors ultrasonic tomography cultural heritage automation signal processing |
| title | An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage |
| title_full | An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage |
| title_fullStr | An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage |
| title_short | An Ultrasonic Tomography System for the Inspection of Columns in Architectural Heritage |
| title_sort | ultrasonic tomography system for the inspection of columns in architectural heritage |
| topic | ultrasonic tomography cultural heritage automation signal processing |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/17/6646 |
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