Title: Propagation characteristics of guided waves in a liquid filled pipe embedded in a porous medium

Author(s): JIANG Jian; HAN Qingbang; XU Zhouchen; JIA Jing; LIANG Dong; ZHONG Xiaomin;

Affiliation(s): College of IOT Engineering of Hohai University;

Abstract: A model of a liquid-filled pipe embedded in a porous medium is built to research its wave propagation characteristics, and to analyze the effect of the parameters of porous media on the dispersion. The dispersion equations are established on the basis of the elastic-dynamic theory of the liquid-saturated porous solid. The characteristic of dispersion and the time domain waveform in pipes of different thicknesses and with different porous-medium parameters are discussed theoretically and numerically. Results reveal that the porosity has little impact on dispersion, and the attenuation of guided wave increases with porosity, whilst the porosity influences the displacement amplitude of the time domain waveform. It is hard to detect the permeability variation of the media by the dispersion. The drawn conclusion can provide some theoretical instruction and guidance for the nondestructive testing of buried pipe.