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Late detection of cracks can lead to serious failures and damages of drilling components, especially drill pipes and drill bits. Currently, the widely used method of repairing rotary drilling systems after a failure is corrective maintenance. Although this strategy has shown its effectiveness in many cases, waiting for a failure to occur and then performing a repair can be an expensive and time-consuming operation. Thus, the use of preventive maintenance under the aspect of periodic inspections can solve this problem and help engineers detect cracks before they reach critical sizes. In this study, modal analysis and finite element analysis (FEA) combined with artificial neural networks (ANN) were used to dynamically estimate the depth and location of a circular arc crack in the drill pipes of rotary drilling systems. To achieve this goal, a detailed analytical approach based on Euler–Bernoulli beam theory was adopted to validate the first four natural frequencies found by FEA for an undamaged pipe. Afterwards, an arc crack was assigned to the pipe already created using Abaqus, and the first four natural frequencies were obtained for each depth and location of the crack. Simulations with FEA led to the generation of a dataset with two inputs—depth and location of cracks—and four outputs: natural frequencies. Moreover, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) was designed and trained by the data collected from simulations. Finally, a comparison between the results obtained by FEA and ANN was performed, where both approaches showed a good agreement in predicting the depth and location of cracks.

Estimation of Circular Arc Crack Depths and Locations in Rotary Drilling Pipes Subjected to Free Vibrations