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Pipelines are often used in chemical plants, oil refineries and power plants. For economic reasons, there is a requirement to monitor a long section of the pipelines. In this work, we present a monitoring approach for metallic pipelines using actively induced microwaves in the 1–5 GHz frequency range. This work presents numerical as well as experimental damage detection results. This also includes the design, fabrication and characterization of a broadband antenna structure. In addition, an experimental setup based on a stainless steel pipeline will be presented. Data acquisition is performed by a vector network analyzer. This paper presents initial experimental results for monitoring of metallic pipelines using a reproducible damage model.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this research by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Grant Number: 20Q1911C).
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Fox, L., Moll, J., Krozer, V. (2023). Monitoring of Pipelines Using Microwave Structural Health Monitoring. In: Rizzo, P., Milazzo, A. (eds) European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. EWSHM 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07322-9_76
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