Broken wire detection in stay cables based on guided waves

Author

Xu, Jiang ; Tang, Huan ; Wu, Xinjun ; Ben, Anran ; Kang, Yihua

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 June 2010

Firstpage

1207

Lastpage

1210

Abstract

There are over 200 cable-stayed bridges in China. Damage detection for stay cables is an urgent problem. The broken wire detection is investigated based on the magnetostrictive guided wave technology by experimentally. Two custom-built stay cables with several broken wire flaws are detected by a magnetostrictive guided wave testing system. The results indicate that the method could detect broken wires quickly and efficiently in stay cables. The minimum detectable defect reaches 3.2% cross section area.

Keywords

bridges (structures); cables (mechanical); magnetostrictive devices; nondestructive testing; broken wire detection; broken wire flaws; cable-stayed bridges; guided wave testing system; magnetostrictive guided wave technology; stay cables; Bridges; Cables; Corrosion; Magnetic fields; Magnetic flux leakage; Magnetic separation; Magnetostriction; Millimeter wave technology; Testing; Wire; broken wire; guided wave; magnetostrictive effect; nondestructive testing; stay cable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7737-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MACE.2010.5536416

Filename

5536416