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Improving the quality of diagnostics of gas-main pipelines by using a device for automated control of the velocity of pig flaw detectors

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The solution of problems of optimizing the velocity of pig flaw detectors for objective intube diagnostics of gas-main pipelines is discussed. The experience of exploitation of flaw detectors equipped with automated control devices and without them is discussed.

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Podgorbunskikh, V.E. Loskutov, 2008, published in Defektoskopiya, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 43–53.

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Podgorbunskikh, A.M., Loskutov, V.E. Improving the quality of diagnostics of gas-main pipelines by using a device for automated control of the velocity of pig flaw detectors. Russ J Nondestruct Test 44, 334–342 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061830908050069

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