Eddy Current System for Clad Pipe Inspection

摘要

Orthogonal eddy current sensors operating in differential mode was applied to evaluate fatigue cracks in clad pipelines circumferential welds. A dedicated electronic hardware was developed to drive the sensors and measure the electrical impedance. In the preliminary experiments, an automated inspection was performed with the goal to evaluate sensors detectability and different scanning speed was tested to reproduce in service situation. The results have shown that the presented eddy current transducer is a potential solution for a fatigue crack detection on a clad circumferential weld bead.