Guided Wave Tomography Performance Analysis
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Author(s)
Huthwaite, P
Lowe, M
Cawley, P
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Quantifying wall loss caused by corrosion is a significant challenge for the petrochemical industry. Corrosion commonly occurs at pipe supports, where surface access for inspection is limited. Guided wave tomography is pursued as a solution to this: guided waves are transmitted through the region of interest from an array, and tomographic reconstruction techniques are applied to the measured signals in order to produce a map of thickness. There are many parameters in the system which can affect the performance; this paper investigates how the accuracy varies as defect width and depth, operating frequency and guided wave mode are all changed. For the S0 mode, the best performance was seen around 170kHz on the 10mm plate, with poor performance seen at almost all other frequencies. A0 showed better performance across a broad range of frequencies, with resolution improving with frequency as the wavelength reduced. However, it was shown that the resolution limit did drop relative to the wavelength, limiting the performance at high frequencies slightly.
Editor(s)
Chimenti, DE
Bond, LJ
Date Issued
2015-07-31
Date Acceptance
2015-07-01
Citation
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2015, 1706
ISSN
1551-7616
Publisher
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal / Book Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume
1706
Copyright Statement
© 2016 AIP Publishing LLC
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/F017332/1
EP/H040072/1
EP/L022125/1
Source
42nd Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Applied
Physics
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-07-26
Finish Date
2015-07-31
Coverage Spatial
Minneapolis, MN