Pipe wall damage detection in buried pipes using guided waves

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ahmad, Rais ^a   Banerjee, Sourav ^a   Kundu, Tribikram ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Damage detection; Guided wave; Pipe inspection; Signal processing; Ultrasonic transducers

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BURIED PIPES; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; DEFECT-FREE; DEFECT-FREE PIPES; GUIDED WAVE; PIPE INSPECTION; PIPE WALL DEFECTS; PIPE WALLS; RECEIVED SIGNALS;

DAMAGE DETECTION; DEFECTS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOILS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PIPE;

EID: 77949551722     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3027460     Document Type: Article

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