The invention discloses
metal pipeline defect detection technology based on a variable-frequency alternating-current potential fall method and belongs to the technical field of nondestructive detection.
Excitation current electrodes (1) are mounted at two ends of a to-be-detected area of a detected
metal pipeline (3), measuring electrodes (2) are mounted in the to-be-detected area, and alternating-current excitation currents different in frequency are applied to the detected pipeline (3) through the
excitation current electrodes (1); due to existence of
skin effect, when the excitation currents are high in frequency, a
skin current (4) only exists in a shallow layer close to the outer wall of the
metal pipeline and will exist in the whole wall of the metal pipeline along with frequency lowering; existence of a defect (5) may influence distribution of the
skin current (4), and influences amplitude of
voltage among the measuring electrodes (2) in other words, and depth information of the detect can be acquired through differential deviation of the
voltage. By the technology, measuring of original
voltage, reference voltage and original wall thickness is not needed, and influence on measuring caused by
system drift and errors in measuring the original wall thickness can be effectively overcome.