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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

An Approach for Easy Detection of Buried FRP Composite/Non-Metallic Pipes Using Ground-Penetrating Radar.

Jonas Kavi, Udaya B Halabe

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonas KaviCivil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., Bridgeport, WV 26330, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4695-9340
Udaya B HalabeSchool of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6157-621X
Arizona State University · US

Funding

United States Department of Transportation - Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (USDOT-PHMSA) DTPH5615HCAP09 and DTPH5616HCAP02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pipelines remain the safest means of transporting natural gas and petroleum products. Nonetheless, the pipeline infrastructure in the US is facing major challenges, especially in terms of corrosion of steel/metallic pipes and excavation damage of onshore pipelines (leading to oil spills, explosions, and deaths). Corrosion of metallic pipelines can be avoided by using non-corrosive materials such as plastic pipes for low-pressure applications and glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite pipes for transporting high-pressure oil and natural gas. However, buried non-metallic pipelines are not easily detectable, which can lead to increased excavation damage during construction and rehabilitation work. Alternative strategies for making buried non-metallic pipes easily locatable using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) were investigated in this study. Results from this study have shown that using carbon fabric or an aluminum foil overlay on non-metallic pipes before burying in soil significantly increases the reflected GPR signal amplitude, thereby making it easier to locate such pipelines. The reflected GPR signal amplitude for pipe sections with carbon fabric or aluminum foil overlays was found to have increased by a factor of up to 4.5 over the control samples. The results also highlight the importance of selecting the appropriate antenna frequency for GPR surveys, since wet silt loam soil and clay significantly reduce the penetration depths of the radar signals produced by the GPR antennae.

Indexed as

carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP)corrosionexcavation damagefiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) compositesglass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP)ground-penetrating radar (GPR)pipelinespolyvinyl chloride (PVC)

Identifiers

PMID37896559
PMCPMC10610926
OpenAlexW4387638688

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