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Monitoring pipe wall integrity using fiber Bragg grating-based sensing of low-frequency guided ultrasonic waves
Pabitro Ray1, Balaji Srinivasan2, Krishnan Balasubramaniam3
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India; Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India.
Abstract:
Recent literature shows that low-frequency ultrasonic guided waves experience mode confinement and loss of axi-symmetry in pipes with axially uniform features such as eccentricity. Considering extended wall loss as a case of uniform eccentricity, this paper proposes to monitor pipe integrity by measuring changes to the modal structure of low-frequency axisymmetric L(0,2) longitudinal guided waves. Fiber Bragg gratings are shown to be effective in detecting changes to L(0,2) modal characteristics, providing a novel route to health monitoring of pipe assets.
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