On Electromagnetic Modeling and Imaging of Defects in Periodic Fibered Laminates.

Zicheng LIU (Inverse problems Group, Signals and Statistics Division, L2S Laboratory)
March 10, 2017 — 11:15 — "Salle du conseil du L2S"

Abstract

Composite laminates are commonly utilized in industry due to advantages as high stiffness, light weight, versatility, etc. Multiple layers, each one involving periodically-positioned circular- cylindrical fibers in a given homogeneous matrix, are usually involved. However, defects can affect the structure and thereupon impact security and efficiency, and they call for nondestructive testing. By electromagnetic (EM) means, it requires fast and reliable computational modeling of both sound and damaged laminates if one wishes to better understand pluses and minuses of the testing, and derive efficient imaging algorithms for the end user. Both direct modeling and inverse imaging will be introduced in this presentation. For the former, since the periodicity of the structure is destroyed due to defects, methods based on the Floquet theorem are inapplicable. Two modeling approaches are then utilized: one is with supercell methodology where a fictitious periodic structure is fabricated, so as the EM field solution everywhere in space can be well approximately modeled, provided the supercell be large enough; the other is based on fictitious source superposition (FSS) where defects are treated as equivalent sources and the field solution is a summation of responses to the exterior source and equivalent ones. For imaging, with MUSIC and sparsity-based algorithm, missing fibers could be accurately located.

Biography

Zicheng LIU was born in Puyang, China, in October 1988. He received the M.S. degree in circuit and system from Xidian University, Xi’an, China in March 2014 and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the benefit of a Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) grant at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, jointly Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CentraleSupélec, and Université Paris- Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France. He will defend his Université Paris-Saclay Ph.D. early Fall 2017. His present work is on the electromagnetic modeling of damaged periodic fiber-based laminates and corresponding imaging algorithms and inversion. His research interests include computational electromagnetics, scattering theory on periodic structures, non-destructive testing, sparsity theory, and array signal processing.