Transmission Line Nondestructive Testing

Chaplin: Long Range Ultrasonic Inspection of High Voltage Transmission Lines

Project Funding

European Union 7th Framework Program project

Duration

2013 – 2014

Project Partners

Brunel University, TWI, Innora, Albatroz, DTK Electronics, Dasel

Description

Development of ultrasound-guided wave inspection system hardware and signal processing software for defect detection on high voltage power lines. First to develop an accurate model of the ultrasonic wave propagation in these cables. Dispersion compensation was used to detect defects up to 120 meters along the cable from the transducer array.

Role in Project

Project leader for Brunel

Project Website                            http://www.chaplin-project.eu/1.html

Publications

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The effects of dispersion on time-of-flight acoustic velocity measurements in a wooden rod

Ultrasonics, 129, pp.106912
Bakar, A. and Legg, M. and Konings, D. and Alam, F.
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An ultrasonic guided wave approach for the inspection of overhead transmission line cables

Applied Acoustics, 122: 23-34, 2017
Yücel, Mehmet K and Legg, Mathew and Kappatos, Vassilios and Gan, Tat-Hean
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Coded Waveform Excitation for High Resolution Ultrasonic Guided Wave Response

Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on, 12(1): 257-266, 2015
Yücel, MK and Fateri, S and Legg, M and Wilkinson, A and Kappatos, V and Selcuk, C and Gan, TH
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Increased range of ultrasonic guided wave testing of overhead transmission line cables using dispersion compensation

Ultrasonics, 2015
Legg, M and Yücel, MK and Kappatos, V and Selcuk, C and Gan, TH
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Pulse-compression based iterative time-of-flight extraction of dispersed ultrasonic guided waves

In Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2015 IEEE 13th International conference on, 2015
Yücel, MK and Fateri, S and Legg, M and Wilkinson, A and Kappatos, V and Selcuk, C and Gan, TH
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Identification and Utilisation of Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Inspection of ACSR Cables

In 11th European conference on Non Destructive Testing (ECNDT2014), 2014
Yücel, MK and Legg, M and Livadas, M and Kappatos, V and Selcuk, C and GAN, TH
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