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The object of the Project:  Detector of the critical tension of steel pipelines constitutes the development and implementation into the operations of the Project Initiator  the unique - in a world scale – technology of detecting the critical tension states of steel pipelines.

The Project is realised by the scientific consortium "Smart-Pipe" within agreement of companies: SHM  System, Ferrum S.A. and  AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. The financed amount equals 11 288 081.95 zl.  The university team constitutes the consortium of Faculties:  Wiertnictwa Nafty i Gazu and Mechanical Engineering and Robotics.  Dr hab. eng. Grzegorz Cieplok is the Research manager of the Project. The research team of WIMiR is formed of: dr hab. eng. Tomasz Machniewicz, dr hab. eng. Ireneusz Czajka, dr hab. eng. Leszek Majkut, dr hab. eng. Piotr Czubak and M. eng. Witold Surówka.

The Detector, developed within the Project, in a form of  a sensor band, together with the technology of its application, will allow to monitor the technical state of pipelines  in an unavailable, until now, range.  It will also provide key data – from the point of view of safety assessments of pipelines management -  concerning the state of pipeline tension with the explicit signalization of critical tensions - yielding.

Customers of this solution can be Polish or foreign pipelines operators and companies specialising in monitoring of technical states of structures.

 Main tasks realized in the Project are written below.

1. Determination of the influence of the distribution of measuring elements on the pipeline perimeter on the ability of yielding detection of a pipe subjected to complex pressure.
2. Determination of the influence of a heterogeneous material strength  along the pipe length on the propagation of yielding zones along this length.
3. Determination of the influence of shearing strains on measuring FBG elements and their ability of measuring deformations.
4. Determination of the influence of the orientation of neutral sensor band on the detection of the pipeline steel yielding.
5. Determination of the external influences on the location of zones of the highest effort (landslides, mining sites, high embankments).
6. Determination of places exposed to formations of extreme tensions related to the geometry and topology of a pipeline (changes of a diameter or direction, passing of water flows)..