The invention discloses a low-frequency ultrasonic scanning imaging quantitative detection method for large-depth submillimeter-level defects, and belongs to the technical field of ultrasonic
nondestructive testing. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring A-type ultrasonic signals p0 (t) of multiple groups of position codes by adopting an ultrasonic
detector, calculating a synthetic aperture length and an
apodization coefficient according to a
sound field distribution rule of an ultrasonic probe, synthesizing a
signal ps (t) of each coding position by adopting a
delay superposition rule, decomposing the ps (t) into N sub-signals by adopting a split
spectrum analysis method with variable
center frequency fi and variable bandwidth, and calculating the position code of the A-type ultrasonic signals p0 (t); sub-signals with the same
center frequency are combined with coding information to generate a scanning image Imi, the
defect size di in the Imi is measured according to a-6dB method, a
sound field directivity function is adopted to fit a change curve of di along with fi, and di corresponding to the slope k of the recognition curve =-0.01 is the
defect size. According to the method, the problems that the resolution of a traditional
synthetic aperture focusing method is limited by the size of a probe and the
signal-to-
noise ratio of multi-resolution scanning imaging is low are solved, and high-
signal-to-
noise-ratio and high-precision quantitative detection of submillimeter defect sizes in a large depth range can be realized by adopting low-frequency
ultrasound.