Application of laser-generated guided wave for evaluation of corrosion in carbon steel pipe
Application of laser-generated guided wave for evaluation of corrosion in carbon steel pipe
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ndteint.2008.09.011
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Lee, Seung-Joon
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作者：
Lee, Joon-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Joon
Local wall thinning of pipes, resulting from corrosion, is the major cause of accidents in nuclear power plants. In order to assure the integrity of pipes, a variety of NDE techniques have been proposed. It is well recognized that the utilization of guided waves to detect flaws in pipes has been a very effective tool for long-range inspection in NDE. Since most conventional research on guided waves has focused on long-range inspection, it is difficult to evaluate a defect in a local area. An objective of this study is to develop a non-contact inspection technique for the quantitative evaluation of defects on a local area in a cylindrical tube. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to introduce an advanced inspection system and a new signal processing method for the evaluation of defects such as corrosion in a pipe. In this study, an advanced non-contact method for pipe inspection is proposed, which generates the ultrasonic guided wave by laser and receives it by a dual air-coupled transducer. Information on each directional defect location and length is obtained by using a line scan along a circumferential and longitudinal direction. Received signals are analyzed by using the peak-to-peak amplitude of waveform and the maximum center frequency magnitude of the frequency spectrum. The optimal mode selection of guided waves based on a dispersion curve is also discussed. The experimental results using the proposed method show that the location and the size of the defect could be evaluated successfully in the 2-dimensional scanning images. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
