TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple-Transmit Focusing for the Nondestructive Testing of Downhole Casings Based on Borehole Transient Electromagnetic Systems
AU - Liu, Changzan
AU - Dang, Bo
AU - Wang, Haiyan
AU - Shen, Xiaohong
AU - Yang, Ling
AU - Ren, Zhiping
AU - Dang, Ruirong
AU - Kang, Yuzhu
AU - Sun, Baoquan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Borehole transient electromagnetic (TEM) array has proven to be efficient for the downhole nondestructive testing (NDT) of metal casings through the eddy-current property. However, restricted by bad downhole conditions, the simple increase of the receiving array is not sufficient enough for improving the downhole NDT performance. In this paper, we present a multiple-transmit focusing (MTF)-based borehole TEM system for the NDT of downhole casings. On the basis of the borehole TEM signal model, the response of the multiple-transmit array is derived by employing the matrix form of the borehole TEM response. It was shown that the excited magnetic field by the multiple-transmit array can be focused by weighting the current of each transmitter. Using this property, a modified linear constrained minimum variance-based multiple-transmitting array weighting method was proposed to realize the MTF. Moreover, a subarray partition approach was proposed to simplify the MTF realization, where the subarray weighting and mean square error were also analyzed. The MTF method performance was verified by applying it to a borehole TEM system for the NDTs of downhole casings. Finally, simulations and experiments were conducted, and the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
AB - Borehole transient electromagnetic (TEM) array has proven to be efficient for the downhole nondestructive testing (NDT) of metal casings through the eddy-current property. However, restricted by bad downhole conditions, the simple increase of the receiving array is not sufficient enough for improving the downhole NDT performance. In this paper, we present a multiple-transmit focusing (MTF)-based borehole TEM system for the NDT of downhole casings. On the basis of the borehole TEM signal model, the response of the multiple-transmit array is derived by employing the matrix form of the borehole TEM response. It was shown that the excited magnetic field by the multiple-transmit array can be focused by weighting the current of each transmitter. Using this property, a modified linear constrained minimum variance-based multiple-transmitting array weighting method was proposed to realize the MTF. Moreover, a subarray partition approach was proposed to simplify the MTF realization, where the subarray weighting and mean square error were also analyzed. The MTF method performance was verified by applying it to a borehole TEM system for the NDTs of downhole casings. Finally, simulations and experiments were conducted, and the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
KW - Borehole
KW - linear constrained minimum variance
KW - multiple-transmit focusing
KW - nondestructive testing
KW - transient electromagnetic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097644116&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3037944
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3037944
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85097644116
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 8
SP - 210978
EP - 210987
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 9258894
ER -