1 RESULTS OF THE 2004 UT MODELING BENCHMARK OBTAINED WITH THE CIVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPED AT THE CEA O. Diligent, S. Chatillon, M. Darmon, A. Lhémery, and S. Mahaut Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, LIST, CEA-Saclay, bât. 611, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France ABSTRACT. The CIVA software developed at the French Atomic Energy Commission for processing and simulating NDT data (ultrasonics, eddy-current) includes tools for simulating the whole inspection of a component in which virtual defects are positioned. In this paper, the Kirchhoff’s approximation is applied and the reciprocity principle allows to predict the reception by transducers of waves scattered by defects. Simulated results are compared to experimental data for the various problems of the 2004 UT benchmark session. INTRODUCTION This paper describes an approach and results of predicting a wave field interaction with certain types of flaws of a set of ultrasonic benchmark problems proposed by the World Federation of Non Destructive Evaluation Centers [1]. The Center of NDE at Iowa State university has conducted a series of experimental studies to allow direct comparison and validation with ultrasonic models in some simple configurations. The results obtained from the simulation may be compared in a later time with calculations performed in different universities. Benchmark problems have been running for a few years at the QNDE conference (see for example [2] and [3]). ...
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