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Quantitative Evaluation of Corrosion in a Thin Small-Bore Piping System Using Bobbin-Type Magnetic Camera

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Nondestructive testing (NDT) methods have been developed to ensure the integrity of heat exchanger pipes. NDT systems can be used to not only locate cracks on the pipes but also evaluate the size and position of the cracks. A bobbin-type magnetic camera (BMC), an electromagnetic NDT system, was developed to inspect both the inner and outer diameters (ID and OD, respectively) for stress corrosion cracking on a small-bore piping system with a high spatial resolution at high speeds. In this paper, an algorithm that discriminates the ID cracks from the OD cracks and estimates the crack volume is proposed. Artificial ID and OD hole-type cracks which have diameter of 1–4.5 mm and depth of 0.3–27 mm were used to imitate the corrosions on a 1.27 mm thickness and 16.56 mm inner diameter copper alloy pipe to verify the proposed algorithm. The inspection results of the BMC with respect to excited frequencies from 1–9 kHz are presented. 100 % of the ID and OD cracks were discriminated, and their volumes were estimated with a standard deviation of 1.132 mm3 for volume from 1.00–9.01 mm3.

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This work was supported by the NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) grant funded by the MEST (Korea government) (No. 2011-0030110), and the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning), Korea, under IT/SW Creative Research Program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2013-H0502-13-1008).

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  1. Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Graduate School of Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, South Korea

    Minhhuy Le, Hoanghai Vu, Jungmin Kim & Jinyi Lee

  2. Department of Control, Instrumentation and Robotics Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, South Korea

    Chandra Sekhar Angani & Jinyi Lee

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Le, M., Vu, H., Kim, J. et al. Quantitative Evaluation of Corrosion in a Thin Small-Bore Piping System Using Bobbin-Type Magnetic Camera. J Nondestruct Eval 33, 74–81 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-013-0204-x

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