System and method for real-time visualization of foreign objects within a material

A system for non-destructive testing of composite materials, comprising:

• a transducer housing assembly in communication with a processor and a display means;
• wherein an ultrasonic transducer is disposed within a sealed fluid chamber within the transducer housing assembly;
• wherein the ultrasonic transducer is operable to emit ultrasonic waves into and receive ultrasonic waves from a test object to produce scan data;
• wherein the processor is in communication with a material database containing information regarding a plurality of materials, and wherein the processor matches a material of at least one foreign object in the test object to at least one of the plurality of materials based on a characteristic A-scan signal for the at least one of the plurality of materials;
• wherein the processor generates a list including the at least one of the plurality of materials, wherein each material is automatically assigned a probability value corresponding to a likelihood that each material in the list matches the material of the at least one foreign object.

A system for non-destructive testing of composite materials, comprising:

• a transducer housing assembly in communication with a processor and a display means;
• wherein an ultrasonic transducer is disposed within a sealed fluid chamber within the transducer housing assembly;
• wherein the ultrasonic transducer is operable to emit ultrasonic waves into and receive ultrasonic waves from a test object to produce scan data;
• wherein the processor is operable to generate at least one B-scan based on the scan data;
• wherein the processor is operable to determine a depth of at least one foreign object within the test object based on the at least one B-scan;
• wherein the processor is in communication with a material database containing information regarding a plurality of materials, and wherein the processor is operable to match a material of the at least one foreign object to at least one of the plurality of materials;
• wherein the processor generates a list including the at least one of the plurality of materials, wherein each material on the list is automatically assigned a probability value corresponding to a likelihood that each material in the list matches the at least one foreign object;
• and
• wherein the probability value for each material on the list is determined by an artificial intelligence module.