Concrete filled steel pipe inspection using electro magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT)

Won-Bae Na; Tribikram Kundu; Yeon-Sun Ryu; Jeong-Tae Kim

doi:10.1117/12.601562

17 May 2005 Concrete filled steel pipe inspection using electro magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT)

Won-Bae Na, Tribikram Kundu, Yeon-Sun Ryu, Jeong-Tae Kim

Proceedings Volume 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.601562
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Concrete-filled steel pipes are usually exposed in hostile environments such as seawater and deicing materials. The outside corrosion of the steel pipe can reduce the wall thickness and the corrosion-induced delamination of internal concrete can increase internal volume or pressure. In addition, the void that can possibly exist in the pipe reduces the bending resistance. To avoid structural failure due to this type of deterioration, appropriate inspection and repair techniques are to be developed. Guided wave techniques have strong potentials for this kind of inspection because of long-distance inspection capability. Among different transducer-coupling mechanism, electro-magnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) give relatively consistent results in comparison to piezoelectric transducers since they do not need any couplant. In this study EMATs are used for transmitting and receiving cylindrical guided waves through concrete-filled steel pipes. Through time history curves and wavelet transform, it is shown that EMAT-generated cylindrical guided wave techniques have good potential for the interface inspection of concrete-filled steel pipes.

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Won-Bae Na, Tribikram Kundu, Yeon-Sun Ryu, and Jeong-Tae Kim "Concrete filled steel pipe inspection using electro magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT)", Proc. SPIE 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.601562

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