TY - GEN
T1 - Inspection of Non-Metallic Pipes Using Microwave Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
AU - Haryono, Andri
AU - Saif Ur Rahman, Mohammed
AU - Abou-Khousa, Mohammed
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported in part by the Gas Processing and Materials Science Research Center (GRC) at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Non-metallic components are increasingly finding application in numerous industries including oil and gas, energy, transportation, and construction. The inherent advantages of these components, which include corrosion resistance, light weight and high strength-to-weight ratio have attracted several industries to employ non-metallic components. However, the vulnerability of these components to various defects and failures, calls for periodic inspection or non-destructive evaluation during manufacture and in service. Although these non-metallic components do not respond well to most non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, microwave NDT has been applied successfully to inspect non-metallic materials. In this paper, microwave NDT of non-metallic pipes is presented. The effectiveness of microwave NDT is illustrated through imaging results produced by scanning two pipe samples. The imaging results produced by the microwave system for one of the samples is benchmarked with Phased Array Ultrasonic testing (PAUT).
AB - Non-metallic components are increasingly finding application in numerous industries including oil and gas, energy, transportation, and construction. The inherent advantages of these components, which include corrosion resistance, light weight and high strength-to-weight ratio have attracted several industries to employ non-metallic components. However, the vulnerability of these components to various defects and failures, calls for periodic inspection or non-destructive evaluation during manufacture and in service. Although these non-metallic components do not respond well to most non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, microwave NDT has been applied successfully to inspect non-metallic materials. In this paper, microwave NDT of non-metallic pipes is presented. The effectiveness of microwave NDT is illustrated through imaging results produced by scanning two pipe samples. The imaging results produced by the microwave system for one of the samples is benchmarked with Phased Array Ultrasonic testing (PAUT).
KW - circular waveguide
KW - microwave imaging
KW - non-destructive testing
KW - non-metallics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072824496&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/RFM.2018.8846531
DO - 10.1109/RFM.2018.8846531
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072824496
T3 - RFM 2018 - 2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference, Proceedings
SP - 219
EP - 222
BT - RFM 2018 - 2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Pasya, Idnin
A2 - Awang, Aziati Husna
A2 - Seman, Fauziahanim Che
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference, RFM 2018
Y2 - 17 December 2018 through 19 December 2018
ER -