Experimental investigation for an isolation technique on conducting the electromechanical impedance method in high-temperature pipeline facilities

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• 作者：Wongi S Na^a ; ^{wongi84@naver.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Hyeonseok Lee^b
• 关键词：Piezoelectric ; Structural health monitoring ; Nondestructive testing ; High temperature environment ; Pipeline monitoring
• 刊名：Journal of Sound and Vibration
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：24 November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：383
• 期：Complete
• 页码：210-220
• 全文大小：3575 K

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In general, the pipelines within a nuclear power plant facility may experience high temperatures up to several hundred degrees. Thus it is absolutely vital to monitor these pipes to prevent leakage of radioactive substances which may lead to a catastrophic outcome of the surrounding environment. Over the years, one of the structural health monitoring technique known as the electromechanical impedance (EMI) technique has been of great interests in various fields including civil infrastructures, mechanical and aerospace structures. Although it has one of the best advantages to be able for a single piezoelectric transducer to act as a sensor and an actuator, simultaneously, its low curie temperature makes it difficult for the EMI technique to be conducted at high temperature environment. To overcome this problem, this study shows a method to avoid attaching the piezoelectric transducer directly onto the target structure using a metal wire for damage detection at high temperature. By shifting the frequency to compensate the signature changes subjected to the variations in temperature, the experimental results indicate that damage identification is more successful above 200 ^oC, making the metal wire method suitable for the EMI technique at high temperature environment.