Intercomparison of gamma scattering, gammatography and radiography techniques for mild steel nonuniform corrosion detection
- Shivaramu Radiological Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam-603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
- Quality Assurance Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam-603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
- Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Safety Research Institute, Kalpakkam-603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
- Radiological Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam-603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam-603 102, Tamil Nadu (India)
This paper focuses on the mild steel (MS) corrosion detection and intercomparison of results obtained by gamma scattering, gammatography, and radiography techniques. The gamma scattering non-destructive evaluation (NDE) method utilizes scattered gamma radiation for the detection of corrosion, and the scattering experimental setup is an indigenously designed automated personal computer (PC) controlled scanning system consisting of computerized numerical control (CNC) controlled six-axis source detector system and four-axis job positioning system. The system has been successfully used to quantify the magnitude of corrosion and the thickness profile of a MS plate with nonuniform corrosion, and the results are correlated with those obtained from the conventional gammatography and radiography imaging measurements. A simple and straightforward reconstruction algorithm to reconstruct the densities of the objects under investigation and an unambiguous interpretation of the signal as a function of material density at any point of the thick object being inspected is described. In this simple and straightforward method the density of the target need not be known and only the knowledge of the target material's mass attenuation coefficients (composition) for the incident and scattered energies is enough to reconstruct the density of the each voxel of the specimen being studied. The Monte Carlo (MC) numerical simulation of the phenomena is done using the Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP) and the quantitative estimates of the values of signal-to-noise ratio for different percentages of MS corrosion derived from these simulations are presented and the spectra are compared with the experimental data. The gammatography experiments are carried out using the same PC controlled scanning system in a narrow beam, good geometry setup, and the thickness loss is estimated from the measured transmitted intensity. Radiography of the MS plates is carried out using 160 kV x-ray machine. The digitized radiographs with a resolution of 50 {mu}m are processed for the detection of corrosion damage in five different locations. The thickness losses due to the corrosion of the MS plate obtained by gamma scattering method are compared with those values obtained by gammatography and radiography techniques. The percentage thickness loss estimated at different positions of the corroded MS plate varies from 17.78 to 27.0, from 18.9 to 24.28, and from 18.9 to 24.28 by gamma scattering, gammatography, and radiography techniques, respectively. Overall, these results are consistent and in line with each other.
- Research Organization:
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Tamil Nadu (India)
- OSTI ID:
- 1038257
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 82, Issue 3; ISSN 0034-6748
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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