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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 74, 2016
The 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Research (ICMER 2015)
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Article Number | 00012 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20167400012 | |
Published online | 29 August 2016 |
Ultrasonic Guided Wave Method For Crack Detection In Buried Plastic Pipe
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26600 Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia
a Corresponding author: w_sofian45@yahoo.com
Plastic pipe are widely used in many fields for the fluid or gaseous product conveyance but basic components of a plastic material made it very sensitive to damage, which requires techniques for detecting damage reliable and efficient. Ultrasonic guided wave is a sensitive method based on propagation of low-frequency excitation in solid structures for damage detection. Ultrasonic guided wave method are performed to investigate the effect of crack to the frequency signal using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis. This paper researched to determine performance of ultrasonic guided wave method in order to detect crack in buried pipeline. It was found that for an uncrack pipe, FFT analysis shows one peak which is the operating frequency by the piezoelectric actuator itself while the FFT analysis for single cracked pipe shows two peak which is the operating frequency by the piezoelectric actuator itself and the resultant frequency from the crack. For multi cracked pipe, the frequency signal shows more than two peak depend the number of crack. The results presented here may facilitate improvements in the accuracy and precision of pipeline crack detection.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
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