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http://dx.doi.org/10.5574/KSOE.2015.29.2.199

Eddy Current Sensor Development for Offshore Pipeline NDT Inspection  

Lee, Seul-Gi (Department of Mechanical Eng., Sungkyunkwan University)
Song, Sung-Jin (Department of Mechanical Eng., Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology / v.29, no.2, 2015 , pp. 199-206 More about this Journal
Abstract
Regular high-strength carbon steel is currently the most commonly used pipe material for onshore and offshore pipelines. The corrosion of offshore pipelines is a major problem as they age. The collapse of these structures as a result of corrosion may have a heavy cost is lives and assets. Therefore, their monitoring and screening is a high priority for maintenance, which may ensure the integrity and safety of a structure. Monitoring risers and subsea pipelines effectively can be accomplished using eddy current inspection to detect the average remaining wall thickness of corroded low-alloy carbon steel pipelines through corrosion scaling, paint, coating, and concrete. A test specimen for simulating the offshore pipeline is prepared as a standard specimen for an analysis and experiment with differential bobbin eddy current sensors. Using encircling coils, the signals for the defect in the simulated specimen are analyzed and evaluated in experiments. Differential bobbin eddy current sensors can diagnose the defects in a specimen, and experiments have been carried out using the developed bobbin eddy current sensor. As a result, the most optimum coil parameters were selected for designing differential bobbin eddy current sensors.
Keywords
Offshore pipeline; Non-destructive testing; Eddy current; Sensor; Corrosion;
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