Ultrasonic attenuation and phase velocity of high-density polyethylene pipe material
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Author(s)
Egerton, JS
Lowe, MJS
Huthwaite, P
Halai, HV
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Knowledge of acoustic properties is crucial for ultrasonic or sonic imaging and signal detection in nondestructive evaluation (NDE), medical imaging, and seismology. Accurately and reliably obtaining these is particularly challenging for the NDE of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), such as is used in many water or gas pipes, because the properties vary greatly with frequency, temperature, direction and spatial location. Therefore the work reported here was undertaken in order to establish a basis for such a multiparameter description. The approach is general but the study specifically addresses HDPE and includes measured data values. Applicable to any such multiparameter acoustic properties dataset is a devised regression method that uses a neural network algorithm. This algorithm includes constraints to respect the Kramers-Kronig causality relationship between speed and attenuation of waves in a viscoelastic medium. These constrained acoustic properties are fully described in a multidimensional parameter space to vary with frequency, depth, temperature, and direction. The resulting uncertainties in acoustic properties dependence on the above variables are better than 4% and 2%, respectively, for attenuation and phase velocity and therefore can prevent major defect imaging errors.
Date Issued
2017-03-07
Date Acceptance
2017-02-02
Citation
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 2017, 141 (3), pp.1535-1545
ISSN
0001-4966
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America
Start Page
1535
End Page
1545
Journal / Book Title
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume
141
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2017 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, 1535 (2017); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4976689 and may be found at https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4976689
Sponsor
EDF Energy R&D UK Centre
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
PO# 4540110473
EP/L022125/1
EP/020207/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Acoustics
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
POWER-LAW
WAVE PROPAGATION
NEURAL-NETWORK
DISPERSION
SPECTROSCOPY
MEDIA
EQUATION
CAUSAL
MODEL
MD Multidisciplinary
Publication Status
Published