TY - JOUR A1 - Haith, M. I. A1 - Ewert, Uwe A1 - Hohendorf, Stefan A1 - Bellon, Carsten A1 - Deresch, Andreas A1 - Huthwaite, P. A1 - Lowe, M. J. S. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe T1 - Radiographic modelling for NDE of subsea pipelines N2 - This work presents an investigation of the accuracy of a radiographic simulation model applied to subsea pipeline inspections. Experimental measurements of a sample in a water tank are used to develop a set of calibrated simulation parameters for the modelling software aRTist. Image quality parameters such as signal-tonoise ratio, contrast and basic spatial resolution are compared with the aim of matching simulated values to experimental results. With this method signal-to-noise ratio was successfully matched while differences were still found in contrast-to-noise ratio comparisons. This means that measurements depending on absolute intensity are not accurate enough, however wall thickness measurements in tangential images, which are not based on absolute intensity, were found to produce similar results in simulated and experimental cases. The differences in contrast and intensity are thought to be due to detector backscatter and additional scatter from out-of-setup objects within the exposure bay, due to a lack of source collimation. These would affect the experimental results but were not included in the simulated setup. This was investigated by including different proportions of peripheral water and other objects in the modelled setup and examining the effect on Image quality parameters. Results show that this additional scatter has a significant impact on the radiograph, particularly on image contrast, and is therefore the likely cause of differences between experimental and simulated images. This implies that it will be very difficult to completely match simulated to experimental results, as including all possible scattering objects in the model would be very complex. An improvement could be made by using real subsea data to estimate this additional scattering, which could then be used to calibrate the model. However there would still be significant uncertainty in the ability of the model to accurately produce realistic intensity and contrast. KW - Digital radiography KW - Modelling validation KW - Subsea pipeline inspection KW - Tangential radiography PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2016.11.006 SN - 0963-8695 SN - 1879-1174 VL - 86 SP - 113 EP - 122 AN - OPUS4-39053 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Xu, W. A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Peng, J. A1 - Luo, L. A1 - Gao, X. A1 - Li, J. T1 - Investigation on Wall Thickness Ranges Using Digital Radiography for Tangential Projection Technique N2 - X-ray testing is based on the attenuation of X-rays when passing through matter. Image detectors acquire the X-ray information which is defined by the local penetrated wall thickness of the tested sample. By X-ray absorption in the detector and following read-out and digitization steps a digital image is generated. As detectors a radiographic film and film digitization, a storage phosphor imaging plate and a special Laser scanner (Computer Radiography - CR) or a digital detector array (DDA) can be used. The digital image in the computer can then be further analyzed using many types of image processing. In the presented work the automated evaluation of wall thickness profiles are investigated using a test steel pipe with 9 different wall thicknesses and various X-ray voltages and different filter materials at the tube port and intermediate between object and detector. In this way the influence of different radiation qualities on the accuracy of the automated wall thickness evaluation depending on the penetrated wall thickness of the steel pipe was investigated. T2 - 10th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics CY - Beijing, China DA - 08.07.2018 KW - Image evaluation KW - Computed radiography (CR) KW - Digital Detector Array (DDA) KW - Tangential radiography KW - Wall thickness measurement PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-51062580-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2506324 SN - 0277-786X VL - 10964 SP - Article Number: UNSP 109645B PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham, WA AN - OPUS4-47346 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Zscherpel, Uwe A1 - Ewert, Uwe T1 - Aktuelle Normungsaktivitäten in der industriellen Durchstrahlungsprüfung N2 - Neue Normen bei DIN, CEN ISO ASTM und IIW für die industrielle Durchstrahlungsprüfung mit Film und digitalen Detektoren. Stand der Technik und neue Entwicklungen T2 - Radiographie-Forum von Baker Hughes CY - Ahrensburg, Germany DA - 20.06.2018 KW - Wall thickness measurement KW - Aktuelle Normentwicklung KW - Schweißnahtprüfung KW - Digital radiography KW - Computed radiography (CR) KW - Digital Detector Array (DDA) KW - Tangential radiography KW - Image evaluation PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47354 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -