Unlocking Potential: Harnessing k-Wave for Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation

Industries and medical field have been using ultrasonic technique from many years and its advancement has created a greater impact now a days. In industries, ultrasonic plays a crucial role in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), enabling the detection, characterization, and sizing of flaws within materials. The k-wave toolbox has become a prevalent tool in the field of biomedical engineering for ultrasonic modelling and simulation. Upon conducting extensive literature surveys, it becomes evident that the utilization of the k-wave toolbox for industrial NDE is not as widespread as in the biomedical domain. This gap presents an opportunity to bridge the expertise and knowledge gained from medical applications to enhance industrial NDE practices. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate simulation of ultrasonic NDE using an open source acoustics k-wave toolbox.