• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.493-500
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• 2001

The detection of axial cracks using conventional MFL pig is a significant challenge in the gas pipeline inspection. In this study, a technique using interaction of circumferentially induced torrents with axial stress corrosion crack is presented. The feasibility of this technique is investigated using finite element modeling. Finite element analysis of such interaction is a difficult problem in terms of both computation time and memory requirements. The challenges arise due to the nonlinearity of material properties, the small sire of tight cracks relative to that of the magnetizer, and also time stepping involved in modeling velocity effects. This paper presents an approach based on perturbation methods. The overall analysis procedure is divided into 4 simple steps that can be performed sequentially. Modeling results show that this technique can effectively detect colonies of SCC as well as single SCC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1992.07b
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• pp.577-579
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• 1992

A new algorithm, which combines the Evolution Strategy and the Simplex method, is proposed for the detection of magnetic body utilizing the disturbance of magnetic fields. Although the detection problem of magnetic body which belongs to the inverse problem may have many local minima, the global optimum point was found by introducing the Evolution Strategy. And the convergency rate was enhanced by introducing the Simplex method. Through the numerical examples, the applicability and usefulness of the proposed algorithm are proved.