Pipeline Interface Wave Ultrasonic Tracking System and Method

Abstract

The invention aims at providing a system and a method for tracking interface waves which are echoes generated between water and workpieces and also called as water layer waves. The system comprises an FPGA module, an ultrasonic transmission module, an ultrasonic reception module, an AD sampling module, a gate position control assembly and a gate width control assembly, wherein the ultrasonic transmission module is used for generating high voltage and transmitting a high-voltage signal to a transducer; the ultrasonic reception module is used for receiving an ultrasonic signal converted electric signal in the transducer; the AD sampling module is used for sampling the received electric signal into a digital signal and sending the digital signal to the FPGA module; the gate position control assembly is used for determining the effective starting position of the sampling; the gate width control assembly is used for determining the range of the effective starting position of the sampling. The system and the method for tracking interface waves are specifically capable of realizing the following functions: (1) exciting an ultrasonic probe and sampling the echoes; (2) tracking the interface waves; (3) simplifying the original ultrasonic data and retaining the data effective to the workpiece detection.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of nondestructive testing, and in particular relates to a method for tracking interface waves when using a liquid immersion method to perform ultrasonic testing on pipelines. Background technique [0002] Pipelines are used to store or transport oil, natural gas, etc., and are usually installed underground or overhead. There are wrapping layers on the outside. The wrapping layer materials are cement, mud, moisturizing materials, etc., so it cannot be detected from the outside, and an internal crawler is required to drive the detection. The equipment is used for flaw detection in the pipeline. [0003] Ultrasonic testing is the most effective non-destructive testing method for pipelines, but ultrasonic testing requires adding a coupling agent between the probe and the workpiece. For pipeline testing channels, automatic ultrasonic testing equipment is used, and water is used as the coupling agent. Ultrasound ...

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The thickness of the water intake layer is 100mm, the thickness of the workpiece is 10mm, the sound velocity in water is 1480mm / ms, and the sound velocity in the workpiece is 5900mm / ms. At this time, the required sampling time is at least: 2×(100 / 1480+(10×4) / 5900)=0.1487 ms=14870×10ns, for 100MHz, 8bit word length analog-to-digital converter, the sampling data is 1B every 10ns, then the data volume of each sampling is 14870B, and the data volume per second is: 14870B×2KB is approximately equal to 29MB, so large The amount of data cannot be processed effectively and timely by the data transmission system, data storage system and data calculation and analysis system

In order to reduce the amount of data, the only way to reduce the repetition frequency is to reduce the detection speed; to reduce the sampling depth, but to reduce the effective data; to perform data compression, but to increase the hardware burden and increase the error

In fact, the data in the water layer is invalid for detection, so if you do not sample the data in the water, but sample the data in the workpiece, the data is only 2KB×2×((10×4) / 5900)×1000× 100=2.7MB, the amount of data has dropped by an order of magnitude

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