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1. Corrosion Pit Image Processor CPIP Software Users Manual May 01 2013 Contract NNX11CA39C BARRON Jason O Burkholder Ph D ASSOCIATES Submitted by BARRON ASSOCIATES INC 1410 Sachem Place Suite 202 Charlottesville VA 22901 0807 434 973 1215 burkholder barron associates com Distribution Electronic Handbook Technical Monitor Jack Telesman ignacy telesman 1 nasa gov SBIR Rights Notice DEC 2007 These SBIR data are furnished with SBIR rights under Contract No NNX11CA39C For a period of 4 years unless extended in accordance with FAR 27 409 h after acceptance of all items to be delivered under this contract the Government will use these data for Government purposes only and they shall not be disclosed outside the Government including disclosure for procurement purposes during such period without permission of the Contractor except that subject to the foregoing use and disclosure prohibitions these data may be disclosed for use by support Contractors After the protection period the Government has a paid up license to use and to authorize others to use on its behalf these data for Government purposes but is relieved of all disclosure prohibitions and assumes no liability for unauthorized use of these data by third parties This notice shall be affixed to any reproductions of these data in whole or in part Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor Contents 1 Scope LL Identification2. consists of numeric X Y and Z coordinates separated by a space comma or tab Figure 3 shows the project with coupon 273 dat added The Project Item Properties Figure 1 shows the coupon and its default properties The user should completely specify all coupon properties Run Id The test run identifier Sample Id The test sample identifier Temperature The corrosion temperature degrees Celsius Stress The coupon loading Newtons Corrosion Time Total corrosion time hours 4 Nickel Alloy Project 4 243 dat TVR Image Properties File Name 243 dat Run Id Sample Id Temperature C Stress N Corrosion Time Hr Flatten Image Figure 3 Add a Coupon Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 9 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 1 5 3D Coupon View The 3D Coupon View activity allows the user to view the coupon data in 3D The coupon Figure 3 data is normalized for display and processing so that the pits have a larger Z component than the coupon surface meaning that the pits are shown as bumps when the positive Z axis is oriented up The view is color coded based upon the Z coordinate with dark blue being the smallest Z i e the coupon surface and dark red being the largest Z i e deepest pit The surface color map is shown in Figure 4 Figure 4 Colormap The surface orientation is shown by the 3D Axes and 3D Orientation w
3. each coupon may be included in multiple projects 3 5 Contingencies Alternate States and Modes of Operation The CPIP application has only one operational mode that of interactive GUI 3 6 Security and Privacy CPIP is export restricted This document contains technical data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act Title 22 U S C Sec 2751 et seq or The Export Administration Act of 1979 as amended Title 50 U S C App 2401 et seq Violations of these export laws are subject to severe criminal penalties Disseminate in accordance with the provisions of DoD 5230 25 3 7 Assistance and Problem Reporting Direct all problems and inquiries to the report preparer Barron Associates Inc 1410 Sachem Place Suite 202 Charlottesville VA 22901 P 434 973 1215 Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 3 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Access To The Software 4 1 First Time User of the Software 4 1 1 Equipment Familiarization The Corrosion Pit Image Processor host is a standard Windows 7 computer meeting the system requirements 4 1 2 Access Control Corrosion Pit Image Processor has no access control features beyond the operating system login and file protec tions 4 1 3 Installation and Setup To install the Corrosion Pit Image Processor application copy the files from the distribution medium into any directory on the host s hard disk Typically this direc
4. Pee a bob eee E Rane Re eS 5 1 5 23D Coupon VieW acera he ea eb eee Pe A bk Ea es 5 1 6 Coupon Flattening lt a p e Ge ne ee See Bao PR ER eG A ee eee ee SET Remove a Couipon s cer paot eos ee Pk OE Sues BR a lao da 51 87 Smooth a Coupons s koe wa eS Ye ee ee ea Pe ec Re as DOS WetectsPits ee ek i de a Fe oe es A ak a eo te de a halal bie al LO thei ets E G 5 1 10 Generate DARWIN HC Input File o o e 52 CONVENTIONS pte ie oak e o a iii tea aaa Hew 5 3 Processing Procedures tia e Pee ee a a 5 3 1 Project Work a 5 3 2 Coupon Workflow sis irta ee 1 Ad are E eae A E 54 Related Processing asada aiene g e a eee RE Se a he Aa a a 5 5 Data Back p e n mukas ple aia aoe ee ae am i ae a a a A doe a 5 6 Recovery from Errors Malfunctions and Emergencies a a a aa a 0000058 Bat Messages sce sits A A de ak AA Oe ee uk aay sedans d ts AA 5 8 Quick Reference Guide a a a a a a 6 Notes 6 1 Abbreviations and Acronyms 2 Pee WWWNHNNN DN Barron Associates Inc Proprietary i SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor List of Figures OONDOARPWNH FE Corrosion Pit Image Processor Application 000000 eee ee 5 Edit Project Names otr Awe Poa RE ae ae ee A ee a 8 Adda Cou ponrg lt i siti a a Big Shed Rees ce etek ee noes ee ES 9 Colormapy vc ee ie tele GS A ore es eee ee ie e a at 10 Rotated COUPO 4 6 4 6 pl a 00d Maa de rd A th Bota AA 11 F
5. Project Figure 2 Edit Project Name 5 1 2 Save Project The Save Project activity saves the project information for use at a later date To save the project state select Save Project from the main menu Figure 1 This action will display the standard Windows file save dialog allowing the user to browse to any folder and specify the file name The saved project state includes Ov EON og eh es The project name The list of coupon file names Each coupon file s properties including File Name Run Id etc See Section 5 1 4 Each coupon s TVR properties including Regularization and Iterations See Section 5 1 8 Each coupon s pit detection properties including Threshold etc See Section 5 1 9 The statistics for each detected pit This allows the DARWIN HC statistics to be generated without re running the image processing The saved project state does not include 1 The flattened coupon image This is a time consuming operation which the user must explicitly perform again if the flattened image is desired See Section 5 1 6 The smoothed coupon image This is a time consuming operation which the user must explicitly perform again if the smoothed image is desired See Section 5 1 8 The default file extension for CPIP projects is cpipproj 5 1 3 Open Project The Open Project activity opens a previously saved project To open a project select Open Project from the main menu Figure 1 This action
6. The NET Framework 4 0 Client Profile may be downloaded at http www microsoft com en us download details aspx displaylang enkid 24872 The Microsoft Visual C 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package x86 may be downloaded at http www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 8328 3 4 Software Organization and Overview of Operation CPIP is a project based graphical user interface GUI application that enables the user to view and process scanned coupon profilometry data and apply image operations that enable automatic corrosion pit detection The application 1 Creates a new project or opens a previous project 2 Displays the coupon surface image in 3D 3 Enables image smoothing 4 Provides automatic pit detection and measurement Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 2 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 Displays the detected pits 6 Generates the DARWIN HC model input statistics 7 Saves the project for future development CPIP is project based which means that all operations are performed within the context of a project A project is a collection of coupon image files and processing parameters for each coupon These data are organized into a project because they are all related to the project s goal whether that is simply data exploration or generating corrosion pit statistics using all of the coupons as data points A coupon s membership in a project is not exclusive
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8. idgets Figure 1 The user can manipulate the view with the following mouse gestures Rotate Hold down the right mouse button over the 3D Coupon Surface View and drag Pan Hold down the middle mouse wheel over the 3D Coupon Surface View and drag Zoom Scroll the mouse wheel over the 3D Coupon Surface View Center Isometric Double click the mouse wheel over the 3D Coupon Surface View to center the surface and show an isometric view The 3D Orientation widget is a cube with labeled faces The user may select a full face view by clicking the appropriately labeled face to quickly re orient the surface Front F is the front face positive X out Back B is the back face positive X in Up U is the top up face positive Z out Down D is the bottom down face positive Z in Left L is the left face positive Y out Right R is the right face positive Y in Figure 5 shows a rotated coupon zoomed in on a pit Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 10 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Nickel Alloy Project 4 243 dat TVR Image Properties Regularization Iterations Figure 5 Rotated Coupon 5 1 6 Coupon Flattening The Coupon Flattening activity allows the user to remove scanner bias The coupon shown in Figure 3 is noticeably darker on the top and lighter on the bottom showing a gradient from dark blue t
9. its larger for a sample with few pit candidates The Number of Pits field is a read only value indicating the number of pits detected given the current parameters After detecting pits the Detect Pits button is disabled and the resulting pits are annotated If a parameter is changed or the image is flattened the TVR button will be enabled so that the new parameter may be applied or the same parameters applied to a newly flattened image Each detected pit has a deepest point known as the center and indicated by a black sphere and a pit width indicated by a tube i e a 3D line The pit centers and widths are drawn on the un smoothed coupon image as shown in Figure 8 Note When continuing work on a project after closing CPIP and opening see Section 5 1 3 the project the user must re flatten the image if necessary and re run TVR prior to performing pit detection Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 13 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Nickel Alloy Project 4 243 dat 4 TVR Image Pit Detector Properties Threshold Surface Noise Multiplier Gradient Percentile Number of Pits Description Figure 8 Detect Pits 5 1 10 Generate DARWIN HC Input File The Generate DARWIN HC Input File activity generates a DARWIN HC input file for analysis in DARWIN http www darwin swri org To generate the DARWIN HC input file select Generate DARWIN HC Statistics f
10. lattened Couponiss ts e0 4 eee Mh Bee Ae PA ed oe we oe Pee ee RR 12 Smoothed Coupon ia a Ble e ede Sen N Eek Soe Ea ae EB alte eee Rs 13 Detect Pitsi a ah igh ta ee oe doe eee gk Bek tee ba al olen fg bP ate be a 14 Generate DARWIN HC Statistics Dialog 2 2 e 15 Barron Associates Inc Proprietary il SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 1 Scope 1 1 Identification This manual documents version 1 0 of the Corrosion Pit Image Processor CPIP software Corrosion Pit Image Processor provides a graphical tool for processing coupon profilometry data to detect corrosion pits and generate the statistics used by the DARWIN HC module 1 2 System Overview The objective of this research program is the development of tools to simulate the effects of hot corrosion on nickel based turbine disks 1 3 Document Overview This manual shall document design installation and usage of the Corrosion Pit Image Processor computer software configuration item CSCI 2 Referenced Documents This section intentionally left blank Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 1 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 3 Software Summary 3 1 Software Application The CPIP application provides a graphical tool for processing coupon profilometry data to detect corrosion pits and generate the statistics used by the DARWIN HC module 3 2 Software Inventory The Corrosio
11. n Pit Image Processor software is distributed in either hard or soft format The hard format distribution is a single CD with the application in the root directory The soft format distribution is a single compressed archive with the application in the root directory The root directory of the distribution contains this user s manual and the application software Subdirectories contain the support files including the Windows runtime The root directory contains the following implementation files BaiCPIP exe The application BaiCpipAlgorithm dll Barron Associates corrosion pit detection algorithms CpipSoftwareUsersManual pdf This manual GalaSoft MvvmLight Extras WPF4 dll Open source application framework GalaSoft MvvmLight WPF4 dll Open source application framework HelixToolkit Wpf dll Open source 3D UI controls MathNet Numerics dll Open source mathematics library Microsoft Practices ServiceLocation dll Microsoft application framework Newtonsoft Json dll Open source data serialization components System Windows Interactivity dll Microsoft Ul extensions WPFToolkit Extended dll Open source WPF Ul components 3 3 Software Environment CPIP is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack SP 1 or higher the NET 4 0 Client Profile framework and the Microsoft Visual C 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package x86 The host computer must have at least 100 MB of memory available for the Corrosion Pit Image Proces sor application
12. o light cyan going in that direction This indicates a tilt bias in the scan The bias must be removed for accurate pit detection This process is known as flattening and is performed by clicking the Flatten Image button on coupon s properties Flattening takes some time 12 seconds on 64 bit Windows 7 running on a 2 5 GHz Intel Core i5 so the user is shown the wait cursor while this operation is in progress The same coupon is shown after flattening in Figure 6 and has a more uniform surface After flattening the Flatten Image button is disabled Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 11 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Nickel Alloy Project 4 243 dat TVR Image Properties File Name 243 dat f Run Id i Sample Id Temperature C Corrosion Time Hr Figure 6 Flattened Coupon 5 1 7 Remove a Coupon The Remove a Coupon activity removes coupon from the project discarding any results for that coupon To remove a coupon from the project right click on the coupon name in the Project File Tree and select Remove Coupon from the context menu 5 1 8 Smooth a Coupon The Smooth a Coupon activity enables image smoothing to facilitate pit detection The Total Variation Regularization TVR algorithm is use to remove scanner noise Smoothing is a sub activity requiring a possibly flattened coupon so the TVR activity appears as a n
13. ode under the coupon node in the Project File Tree Figure 1 The Project Item Properties Figure 1 shows the TVR parameters Regularization Use a smaller number 10 for less smoothing Iterations More iterations means more smoothing After TVR has been applied the TVR button is disabled and the resulting image is shown If a TVR parameter is changed or the image is flattened the TVR button will be enabled so that the new parameter may be applied or the same parameters applied to a newly flattened image TVR is always performed upon the image or flattened image it is never successively applied to previous TVR results Figure 7 shows the project with coupon after applying TVR smoothing The surface in Figure 7 is smoother darker blue than the flattened surface in Figure 6 and the pits are more pronounced Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 12 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Nickel Alloy Project 4 243 dat TVR Image Properties Regularization Iterations Figure 7 Smoothed Coupon 5 1 9 Detect Pits The Detect Pits activity automatically detects pits on the coupon The Project Item Properties Figure 1 shows the pit detection parameters Threshold Features shallower than this number aren t pits Surface Noise Multiplier Heuristically an adequate multiplier is in the range 4 lt k lt 6 Gradient Percentile Smaller for a sample with more p
14. otes 6 1 Abbreviations and Acronyms Corrosion Pit Image Processor 3D Corrosion Mapping System BAI Barron Associates Inc CPIP Corrosion Pit Image Processor CSCI Computer Software Configuration Item DDD Database Design Description GB Gigabyte GUI Graphical User Interface MB Megabyte SDD Software Design Description SP Service Pack SUM Software User Manual TVR Total Variation Regularization Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 17 SBIR Data Rights Apply
15. rkflow from beginning to end 1 Create a new project see Section 5 1 1 2 Repeat the Coupon Workflow see Section 5 3 2 until all coupons are added to the project 3 Generate the DARWIN HC input file if desired see Section 5 1 10 4 Save the project see Section 5 1 2 Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 15 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 3 2 Coupon Workflow This workflow describes the processing for a single coupon 1 Add a coupon file see Section 5 1 4 and set its properties 2 Flatten the coupon if necessary see Section 5 1 6 3 Set TVR parameters and smooth the image to remove noise see Section 5 1 8 4 Set pit detection parameters and detect pits see Section 5 1 9 The user is encouraged to save the project upon completion of this workflow for each coupon 5 4 Related Processing This section is not applicable to Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 5 Data Backup This section is not applicable to Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 6 Recovery from Errors Malfunctions and Emergencies This section is not applicable to Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 7 Messages This section is not applicable to Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 8 Quick Reference Guide This section is not applicable to Corrosion Pit Image Processor Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 16 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 6 N
16. rom the main menu Figure 1 This action will display a dialog requiring the user to enter a title description and file name as shown in Figure 9 Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 14 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor E f Generate DARWIN HC Statistics 7 Title Nickel Alloy Test Corrosion Description Results of 24 32 and 40 hr corrosion 1238 1292 1472 F Filename c NA_DarwinHcTest txt Browse Generate Cancel Figure 9 Generate DARWIN HC Statistics Dialog The dialog requires the values Title Data title limited to 40 characters Description Data description limited to 80 characters File name Full path to the output file The File name parameter is the full path to the output file The default extension is TXT The Browse button displays the standard Windows file save dialog allowing the user to browse to any folder and specify the file name The Generate button creates the statistics and saves them in the indicated file and then closes the dialog returning to CPIP The Cancel button closes the dialog returning to CPIP 5 2 Conventions This section intentionally left blank 5 3 Processing Procedures At any point in these workflows the user may choose to save the project settings and resume the work at a later time 5 3 1 Project Workflow This workflow describes the typical CPIP wo
17. s a project based application that provides tools to automatically detect corrosion pits A project is a set of corroded coupon images Typically these coupons are related in some way and the desired result is the DARWIN HC module statistics file summarizing the corrosion pits The application supports the following activities Create Project Save Project Open Project Add a Coupon 3D Coupon View Coupon Flattening Remove a Coupon Smooth a Coupon Or EE Detect Pits Generate DARWIN HC Input File E 2 5 1 1 Create Project The first activity is Create Project which creates an empty project To create a new project perform one of the two operations 1 Select New Project from the main menu Figure 1 2 Right click in the empty space in the Project File Tree Figure 1 to display the context menu and select New Project Either action will create a new empty project named Project N where N is a number The name appears in both the Project File Tree and the Project Item Properties Figure 1 The Project Item Properties pane allows the user to change the project name by editing the entry field to the right of the Name label Figure 2 shows the project name changed to Nickel Alloy Project Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 7 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor Nickel Alloy Project Properties Name Nickel Allloy
18. t service pack 3 Ensure NET 4 0 Client Profile framework is installed Click the taskbar Start button select Control Panel and then Programs and Features Search the list of installed programs for Microsoft NET Framework 4 Client Profile 4 Ensure Microsoft Visual C 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package x86 is installed Click the taskbar Start button select Control Panel and then Programs and Features Search the list of installed programs for Microsoft Visual C 2010 x86 Redistributable If these steps fail to resolve the problem please contact Barron Associates see Section 3 7 4 3 Stopping and Suspending Work Terminate the CPIP application like any Windows application by performing one of the following operations 1 Use the mouse to select File from the main menu and select Exit 2 Use the mouse to select the system menu upper left corner of the window and select Close 3 Use the mouse to click the X button in the upper right of the window Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 5 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 4 Use the keyboard to activate the system menu Close item by pressing Alt F4 The application will exit immediately Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 6 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 5 Processing Reference Guide 5 1 Capabilities The CPIP i
19. tory should be named CPIP The distribution and installation files have the following hierarchy CPIP BaiCPIP exe BaiCpipAlgorithms dll CpipSoftwareUsersManual pdf GalaSoft MvvmLight Extras WPF4 dll GalaSoft MvvmLight WPF4 dll HelixToolkit Wpf dll MathNet Numerics dll Microsoft Practices ServiceLocation dll Newtonsoft Json dll System Windows nteractivity dll WPF Toolkit Extended dll where CPIP is a directory and the remaining items are files Configuration The application requires no configuration 4 1 4 Removal To remove the CPIP application delete the installation files and directories 4 2 Initiating a Session Run the BaiCPIP exe program as usual with any Windows Application The annotated GUI shown in Figure 1 should appear within seconds Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 4 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor n 3D Coupon Project Surtees File View Tree Project Item 3D Axes Properties 3D orientation ee m Figure 1 Corrosion Pit Image Processor Application 4 2 1 Troubleshooting If CPIP fails to run perform the following steps 1 Ensure the required files are present see Section 4 1 3 2 Ensure Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is installed Click the taskbar Start button right click My Computer and select Properties The System Properties window will appear and display the operating system version and lates
20. will display the standard Windows file open dialog allowing the user to browse to any folder and specify the file name When the project is loaded the Project File Tree will be populated with the list of image files and parameter settings that were present when the project was saved The following differences exist between the saved state and the project open state Barron Associates Inc Proprietary 8 SBIR Data Rights Apply Software Users Manual Corrosion Pit Image Processor 1 The image file data will not be loaded until the user clicks on the file name If the file is not found the data will not be loaded and the application will not warn the user 2 Flattening is not saved with the project state nor is it automatically performed because flattening is a time consuming process See Section 5 1 6 3 Pit detection is not executed although the pit statistics are loaded The default file extension for CPIP projects is cpipproj 5 1 4 Add a Coupon The Add a Coupon activity adds a scanned coupon s profilometry data to the project and enables image processing and pit detection To add a coupon to the project right click on the project name and select Add Coupon from the context menu This action will display the standard windows file open dialog allowing the user to browse to any folder and specify the file name The default file extension for CPIP coupon data is dat The coupon data file is ASCII text Each line
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