Methods for Detection and Localization of Internal and External Disturbances in a Pipeline

摘要

Apparatus and methods for the detection and localization of internal and external disturbances in and around a physical structure from data generated by an array of sensors and processing systems connected to the physical structure.

主权项

1. A data acquisition and processing system integrated into a transportation bridge structure comprising:
at least two sensors networked together in a manner enabling a digital processing system to acquire data generated by the sensors and communicate results of processing this data to remote systems; said sensors are one of an accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure, acoustic, temperature, magnetic, optical, torsion, tension and force measuring devices; said sensors are physically distributed on said transportation bridge structure in such a manner that said sensors sample propagating mechanical waves in said transportation bridge structure and sample external mechanical waves as they impact and interact with said transportation bridge structure; digital processing methods to estimate the location of an internal source of mechanical disturbance in said transportation bridge structure; and digital processing methods to estimate a set of potential locations of an external source of mechanical disturbance effecting said transportation bridge structure.