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Jie Gao1, Tianhao Chen1, Yan Lyu1
1School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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Circumferential guided wave detection technology can serve as an alternative method for detecting casing bond defects. Due to the presence of the cement cladding, the circumferential SH guided waves transmit shear waves into the cement cladding as they propagate in the cementing casing, which cause the circumferential SH guided waves to show attenuation characteristics. In this study, the cementing casing structure was considered as a steel substratum semi-infinite domain cemented cladding pipe structure, and the corresponding dispersion and attenuation characteristics of circumferential SH guided waves were numerically solved based on the state matrix and Legendre polynomial hybrid method. In addition, a finite element simulation model of cementing casing was established to explore the interaction between SH guided waves and bonding defects. The relationship between the amplitude of SH guided waves and the size of the bonding defects was established through the attenuation coefficient. Moreover, an experimental platform for cementing casing detection is constructed to detect bonding defects of different sizes and to achieve the acoustic analysis of cementing defects in cementing casing, which provides a research path for the non-destructive testing and evaluation of bonding defects in cementing casing.
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