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Ultrasonic Inspection System for Wastewater Concrete Pipes
Accurate pipeline condition assessment is vital to developing a cost effective and sustainable buried asset management system. Maintenance and rehabilitation of pipeline systems pose a major challenge for most municipalities in North America given their budgetary constraints, demand on providing quality service, and the need for preserving their pipeline infrastructure. This paper presents the proof-of-concept for an automated buried pipeline condition assessment system that can provide additional depth perception of defects in addition to surface assessments provided by current technologies. An ultrasound acoustics-based methodology is proposed to acquire depth perception and complement 2-D crack features available from the SSET camera. Experimental results show that the ultrasound immersion methodology provides rich data for building a reliable defect detection and condition assessment system. The proposed automated inspection system can lead to overcoming many limitations of the current manual inspection practice and can provide a more accurate assessment of buried pipe conditions.
Ultrasonic Inspection System for Wastewater Concrete Pipes
Accurate pipeline condition assessment is vital to developing a cost effective and sustainable buried asset management system. Maintenance and rehabilitation of pipeline systems pose a major challenge for most municipalities in North America given their budgetary constraints, demand on providing quality service, and the need for preserving their pipeline infrastructure. This paper presents the proof-of-concept for an automated buried pipeline condition assessment system that can provide additional depth perception of defects in addition to surface assessments provided by current technologies. An ultrasound acoustics-based methodology is proposed to acquire depth perception and complement 2-D crack features available from the SSET camera. Experimental results show that the ultrasound immersion methodology provides rich data for building a reliable defect detection and condition assessment system. The proposed automated inspection system can lead to overcoming many limitations of the current manual inspection practice and can provide a more accurate assessment of buried pipe conditions.
Ultrasonic Inspection System for Wastewater Concrete Pipes
Iyer, Shivprakash (author) / Sinha, Sunil K. (author) / Pedrick, Michael K. (author) / Tittmann, Bernhard R. (author)
International Pipelines Conference 2008 ; 2008 ; Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Pipelines 2008 ; 1-10
2008-07-17
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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