During manufacture and assembly of products, there is a wide range of testing and inspection carried out to ensure the materials and items satisfy their specifications or are fit for the required ...

Nondestructive testing (NDT) refers to the inspection of materials to ensure their integrity and serviceability without damaging the components in the process. There are various NDT methods used by ...

Figure 1. Industrial LEA-based inspection system in production use for automated helicopter tailboom inspection. Inset: the laser-based ultrasound generation unit of the through-transmission ...

Ultrasonic nondestructive testing, also known as ultrasonic NDT or simply UT, is a method of characterizing the thickness or internal structure of a test piece using high-frequency sound waves. The ...

Film radiography is often used for welding inspection in offshore and onshore pipe laying, and for checking the reliability of defect detection using ultrasonic testing. However, it can be slow and ...

Chris Skocik, Agile Ultrasonics engineering manager, is loading the company’s vacuum chamber in preparation for an ultrasonic weld trial joining CFRTP at the company’s facility in Columbus, Ohio.

The last two decades have seen substantial improvements in ultrasonic plastic-welding machines. Bench-top models feature proportional-valve controls, linear encoders, line-voltage regulation, internal ...

Dr. Park Chan Wook (Postdoctoral Researcher, Non-Destructive Metrology Group, KRISS); The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Lee Ho-seong) has developed an ultrasonic ...