Effects of Pipe Pressures on Longitudinal Mode Guided Wave Propagations

In engineering applications, the internal walls of pipelines tended to have mediums, which might produce pressures on the pipeline walls. When the ultrasonic guided wave technique was revealed to detect these pipelines, medium pressures whether or not to have effects on the propagation characteristics of ultrasonic guided wave were a very important problem. Liquid medium pressures in the pipelines were studied herein on the influences of ultrasonic guided wave propagation through numerical simulation method, guided wave attenuation properties in the different excitation frequencies and medium pressures were analyzed, and pressure pipeline experimental system was set up. The experimental results show that the ultrasonic guided wave propagation in the pipes does not change with the changes of inside pressures.