Abstract
Aiming at the difficult question of qualitative analysis for welding flaws in ultrasonic testing, a novel method of flaw classification utilizing the combination of wavelet packet transform (WPT) with the layer multi-class classifier based on -SVM is presented in this paper. First, WPT is applied to extract features for ultrasonic echo-signals of welding flaws, and flaws are automatically classified by using the layer multi-class classifier based on -SVM. Then, its classification results are compared with that of several widely used multi-class SVM classification methods. To validate the method above, a series sample of butt girth welds of seamless steel tube with four types of welding flaws is made, and some experiments are performed. The results show that the proposed method is superior to other multi-class SVM classification methods in the aspects of classification accuracy, training and testing time.
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