Automated non-destructive integrity assessment of metal structures

Offshore windmills and pipeline networks are examples of strategic infrastructures used for the production clean energy storage long-distance transportation hydrocarbons, hydrogen water. The relevant structural elements mainly made welded portions steel pipes, which often interact with aggressive fluids hostile environments. Material aging is thus accelerated localized damage processes promoted, harming design safety factors. health such components can be monitored in operation, throughout their lifetime, by non-destructive testing performed portable devices. equipment at present available on market permits to develop fully automated campaigns, overcoming difficulties associated large extension difficult accessibility. data collected site transferred through virtual networks, evaluated processed order permit quantitative evaluations required optimization planning repair retrofit operations. This contribution discusses potential offered current practice illustrates methodological adaptations that produce effective diagnostic tools outlined context.