An End-to-End Physics-Informed Neural Network for Defect Identification and 3-D Reconstruction Using Rotating Alternating Current Field Measurement

The alternating current field measurement (ACFM) technique has been widely used in the defect detection of metal structures. However, the identification and reconstruction of defects depend on human experience or simple empirical formulas, which leads to misjudgment of defects and large quantization errors. In this article, we propose an end-to-end physics-informed neural network for defect identification and 3-D reconstruction. The high-precision automatic detection system with a specially designed probe is established to detect defects in any direction. The faster RCNN network is used to identify and classify defects. The physics-informed Pix2Pix network is constructed to realize 3-D reconstruction of defects with different types. The results show that the established end-to-end physics-informed neural network can realize the identification and 3-D reconstruction of defects in which the mean average precision is 0.9982, the average length error of cracks is 0.9249 mm, the average depth error of cracks is 0.3402 mm, the average volume error of corrosion is 0.0667, and the average maximum depth error of corrosion is 0.3464 mm.