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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2003
Applicant:
Roberto Jourdan DE Aquino, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Inventor:
Roberto Jourdan De Aquino, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Assignee:
Technip France, , FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for monitoring the integrity of a flexible pipe used for transporting a pressurized fluid in a terminal end-fitting. The pipe includes an internal pressure sheath, plies of tensile armor wires and an outer sheath fastened to the end-fitting. A device monitors the change in a phenomenon associated with a failure of the armor plies as a result of a fracture of several tensile armor wires inside the end-fitting. The device detects an increase in the twist in the pipe near the end-fitting, which twist is a phenomenon of a fracture of tensile armor wires inside the end-fitting.