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Early Inspection of Weld Seams on Gas Pipelines Based on Metal Magnetic Memory Method



Kexi Liao, Lijia Long*, Huaixin Zhang
Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

Abstract

In order to investigate the magnetic abnormality influenced by stress in weld seams, experiments on three types of weld seams were carried out and a stress concentration detection instrument - metal magnetic memory (MMM) tester was used. MMM tests on gas pipelines in Puguang initial station in China were conducted and compared MMM wave diagram and mathematical analysis of MMM data and the quantitative MMM characteristics of T weld, straight weld and girth weld. The experiment results showed that different weld seams have different MMM characteristics, types of defects can be identified based on magnetic anomaly signal waveform characteristics and quantitative MMM features which evaluate the pipeline defects quantitatively.

Keywords: Metal magnetic memory, stress concentration, weld seam.

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2016
Volume: 9
First Page: 1
Last Page: 9
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-9-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874834101609010001

Article History:

Received Date: 20/9/2014
Revision Received Date: 11/04/2015
Acceptance Date: 30/07/2015
Electronic publication date: 09/02/2016
Collection year: 2016

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China; Tel: 861582810818686; E-mail: 15828108186@163.com; jellylong1017@qq.com


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