Abstract

A new welding line counting method of offshore pipeline is proposed based on the inspection principle of caliper pig. This has been verified by an experimental program and the experimental results indicate that the new welding line counting method records the number of joint accurately and effectively eliminate the cumulative error of odometer wheel and greatly improve the measurement precision of defect distance. A correction theory of barycenter offset has been proposed to improve the identification accuracy of welding line.

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