Modeling the GPR response of leaking, buried pipes
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
Using a 2.5D, dispersive, full waveform GPR modeling program that generates complete GPR response profiles in minutes on a Pentium PC, the effects of leaking versus non-leaking buried pipes are examined. The program accounts for the dispersive, lossy nature of subsurface materials to GPR wave propagation, and accepts complex functions of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability versus frequency through Cole-Cole parameters fit to laboratory data. Steel and plastic pipes containing a DNAPL chlorinated solvent, an LNAPL hydrocarbon, and natural gas are modeled in a surrounding medium of wet, moist, and dry sand. Leaking fluids are found to be more detectable when the sand around the pipes is fully water saturated. The short runtimes of the modeling program and its execution on a PC make it a useful tool for exploring various subsurface models.
- OSTI ID:
- 381498
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960477-; TRN: 96:004278-0032
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. annual symposium on the application of geophysics to engineering and environmental problems, Denver, CO (United States), 15 Apr - 1 May 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of SAGEEP `96: Proceedings of the symposium on the application of geophysics to engineering and environmental problems; Bell, R.S.; Cramer, M.H. [comps.]; PB: 1353 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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