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- Title
Development the method of pipeline bending strain measurement based on microelectromechanical systems inertial measurement unit.
- Authors
Li, Rui; Wang, Zhensheng; Chen, Pengchao
- Abstract
With the development of pipeline construction, the additional stress and strain becomes the key factor to induce the damage for oil and gas pipeline. The in-line inspection of pipeline bending strain which is based on high-end tactical-grade inertial measurement unit has become routine practice for the oil and gas pipelines over recent years. However, these accurate inertial measurement units are large size and high cost limit to use in small diameter pipelines of bending strain inspection. Microelectromechanical systems–based inertial navigation has been applied to mapping the centerline of the small size pipeline, and the accurate trajectory and attitude information become key factors to calculate the bending strain of pipelines. This article proposed a method not only to calculate the pipeline bending strain but also to improve the accuracy for the bending strain based on the wavelet analysis. Tests show that this method can be effectively used in the calculation and optimization of the bending strain, and it will increase the accuracy to within 19.1% of the actual bending strain.
- Subjects
MICROELECTROMECHANICAL systems; UNITS of measurement; PETROLEUM pipelines; PIPELINES; PIPELINE inspection; NATURAL gas pipelines
- Publication
Science Progress, 2020, Vol 103, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0036-8504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0036850420925231