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Damage Detection and Assessment of Broken Wires in Cables of a Bridge Based on Magnetic Flux Leakage

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To detect the broken cable signal and extract the damage characteristics of a broken wire, a magnetic testing device for broken wires based on magnetic flux leakage (MFL) is designed. For the broken wire damage on the cable surface, the device is effective. At first, the magnetic dipole model and the model of an excitation magnetic circuit are studied and a damage detection model based on MFL is established; a permanent magnet excitation-based method for MFL testing is proposed; afterwards, module mechanisms for magnetic testing are designed for damage detection on cables; finally, data pertaining to detected signals are processed by a moving average method, Fourier transform, and wavelet transform. The simulation and test results show the peak-to-valley ratios of the voltage measured from damage directly under the testing modules are directly proportional to the damage to the broken wires in the cables. The measured signal levels after rotating the head through 30° only reach 50% of those where the damage is directly opposite to the sensor.

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This work was supported by the Key project of regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China(U21A20139)and Supported by Jiangsu 333 High-level Talents Training Project(2022-3-16-343).

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    F. Xu & Z. Jiang

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    F. Xu & X. S. Wang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, China

    Q. Jiang

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Xu, F., Jiang, Z., Jiang, Q. et al. Damage Detection and Assessment of Broken Wires in Cables of a Bridge Based on Magnetic Flux Leakage. Exp Tech 47, 907–920 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40799-022-00605-1

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