scholarly journals Remote Monitoring and Evaluation of Damage at a Decommissioned Nuclear Facility Using Acoustic Emission

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Abdelrahman ◽  
Mohamed ElBatanouny ◽  
Kenneth Dixon ◽  
Michael Serrato ◽  
Paul Ziehl
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Structural Condition ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Facility ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion

Reinforced concrete systems used in the construction of nuclear reactor buildings, spent fuel pools, and related nuclear facilities are subject to degradation over time. Corrosion of steel reinforcement and thermal cracking are potential degradation mechanisms that adversely affect durability. Remote monitoring of such degradation can be used to enable informed decision making for facility maintenance operations and projecting remaining service life. Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring has been successfully employed for the detection and evaluation of damage related to cracking and material degradation in laboratory settings. This paper describes the use of AE sensing systems for remote monitoring of active corrosion regions in a decommissioned reactor facility for a period of approximately one year. In parallel, a representative block was cut from a wall at a similar nuclear facility and monitored during an accelerated corrosion test in the laboratory. Electrochemical measurements were recorded periodically during the test to correlate AE activity to quantifiable corrosion measurements. The results of both investigations demonstrate the feasibility of using AE for corrosion damage detection and classification as well as its potential as a remote monitoring technique for structural condition assessment and prognosis of aging structures.

Study on Corrosion Damage Rule for Two Type of Aluminum Alloy

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Dan Feng Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ming Tan ◽  
Dan Gui Zhang ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Corrosion Test ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Aircraft Structure ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion ◽  
Damage Repair ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion Test ◽  
Damage Rule

Corrosion exists everywhere. It’s very widespread that the aluminum alloy aircraft structure suffers the corrosion damage under the marine environment particularly. The equivalent accelerated corrosion test of the new aluminum alloy 2B06 and 7B04 was carried out.Corrosion damage was inspected and measured through microscope. The rule of the corrosion damage can be obtained by statistical analysis. And which can supply the reference basis for the corrosion damage repair and evaluating the calendar life.

Detection of Corrosion Damage on Pressure Equipment with Acoustic Emission

2006 ◽  
Vol 13-14 ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerold Lackner ◽  
Peter Tscheliesnig
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Destructive Testing ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Traditional Procedure ◽  
Emission Testing ◽  
Service Period

Acoustic emission testing (AT) is in Europe an already well established non-destructive testing (NDT) method. Qualification requirements as well as certification of testing personnel are laid down in European standard EN 473. A widespread application of AT deals with testing of unfired pressure vessels for re-qualification after a certain period of service (repetition test). The advantages of applying AT compared to the traditional procedure of hydrostatic test plus visual inside inspection are numerous. Just to name the most important: reduction of downtime, omitting of residual humidity and no risk of product contamination with water. It is a fact that AT provides much more useful information concerning the condition of the pressure vessel under test than a simple ‘passed’ or ‘not passed’ obtained usually by a hydrostatic test. This contribution gives two examples of practical experience, where severe corrosion defects have been detected by AT. The defects have been found in both cases on the vessel’s shell under the thermal insulation, where they have been hidden undetected for years. It can be assumed that even the vessel with the most severe damage (loss of more than 50% of the nominal wall thickness) would have passed the traditional repetition test procedure and that failure within the following service period would have occurred. In contrary to this scenario, AT enabled the vessel operator to perform appropriate repair in time.

Shear strength of disturbed regions with corroded stirrups in reinforced concrete beams

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1045-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Suffern ◽  
Ahmed El-Sayed ◽  
Khaled Soudki
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion ◽  
Damage Level ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Shear Span

This paper reports experimental data on the structural performance of disturbed regions in reinforced concrete beams with corrosion damage to the embedded steel stirrups. A total of 15 reinforced concrete beams were constructed and tested. The test beams were 350 mm deep, 125 mm wide, and 1850 mm long. The beams were tested in three-point bending under a simply supported span of 1500 mm. Nine beams had the embedded stirrups subjected to accelerated corrosion. The test variables were the corrosion damage level and the shear span-to-depth ratio. The test results indicated that the corroded beams exhibited reduced shear strength in comparison to the uncorroded control specimens. The shear strength reduction was up to 53%. Furthermore, the reduction in shear strength due to the corrosion was found to be greater at smaller shear span-to-depth ratios.

SCC Propagation Rate of Type 304, 304L Steels Under Oceanic Air Environment

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akio Kosaki
Keyword(s):  
Storage Period ◽  
Propagation Rate ◽  
Stress Intensity Factor Range ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Exposure Test ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion ◽  
Accelerated Corrosion Tests ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Fuel Storage ◽  
Type 304

Corrosion integrity of canister in the concrete cask for spent fuel storage is very important because the canister serves to maintain the sealability over the storage period of 40 to 60 years. Natural exposure and accelerated corrosion tests of conventional stainless steels for canister, that are Type 304, 304L, and 316(LN), for concrete cask’s canister have been conducted by using many three Point Bending (3PB) test specimens and compared. The SCC propagation rates in Type 304 and 304L at the natural condition were about 1.2E−12 to 1.8E−11 m/s at the K (Stress Intensity Factor) range of 0.6 to 9.0 MPa√m, and that of the accelerate test (60 degrees C, 95%RHS., filled with NaCl mist) were about 1.0E−10 to 3.5E−9 m/s at the K range of 0.3 to 32 MPa√m. The SCC propagation rates under both natural and accelerated conditions were independent with K. Both da/dt values of the direct exposure test and of the under glass exposure test were in the same scattering band.

Evaluation of the natural and man-made radioactivity levels around the Egyptian nuclear facilities

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.M. Diab ◽  
M.S. El-Tahawy ◽  
S.A.M. El-Mongy
Keyword(s):  
Soil Water ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Alpha Spectrometry ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Research Reactors ◽  
Radioactivity Level ◽  
Plant Samples ◽  
Fuel Fabrication ◽  
Radioactivity Levels

The monitoring and evaluation of the radioactivity levels around the Egyptian nuclear facilities located at Inshas, near Cairo, namely, two research reactors, an R & D fuel fabrication laboratory and a fuel fabrication pilot plant, were carried out. Soil, water and plant samples were collected from locations near and around the facilities and analyzed by using gamma, laser and alpha spectrometry. A preoperational radiological map for the new reactor site was established. The results of the postoperational monitoring around the first reactor show that the 38year operation of this reactor did not increase the radioactivity level around the facility. The observed man-made

scholarly journals Acoustic emission for diagnosing cable way steel support towers

2019 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 09002
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Krampikowska ◽  
Grzegorz Świt
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Classification Method ◽  
Acoustic Emission Method ◽  
Emission Method ◽  
Damage Classification ◽  
Mathematical Processing ◽  
Destructive Processes

The paper reports results of the study on the possibility of using the acoustic emission method in diagnosing fatigue and corrosion damage in steel elements of the cable way support towers. The assessment of the sensitivity of the structure to the recorded destructive processes is based on the structural damage classification method using the patterns created as a result of statistical and mathematical processing of acoustic emission signals through image analysis and grouping methods.

scholarly journals The results of monitoring of hydroimpulsive disintegration of outburst-prone coal seams using ZUA-98 system

2020 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 00068
Author(s):  
Vasyl Zberovskyi ◽  
Kostiantyn Sofiiskyi ◽  
Rishard Stasevych ◽  
Artem Pazynych ◽  
Jan Pinka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Rock Mass ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Strain State ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Dynamic State ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Gas Dynamic ◽  
Mine Workings

The paper represents the results of monitoring and evaluation of the efficiency of hydroimpulsive disintegration of outburst-prone coal seams in the stopes of development mine workings using a system of sound detecting facilities. Methods of acoustic emission control have been considered as well as the monitoring tasks to evaluate rock mass conditions before the procedure and after it inclusive of the results of sound accompaniment of hydraulic disintegration of the coal seam. It has been determined that the higher concentration of stresses within the rock mass is, the more efficient action of high frequency self-oscillations of cavitation transmitter is on both the fissuring and changes in gas-dynamic state of the coal seam. It has been recommended to apply a mode of impulsive fluid pumping under the conditions where coal seam is in the stress-strain state.

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