Ultrasonic Inspection

Ultrasonic shear waves are longitudinal beams projected into a part at an angle refracting the sound into a shear wave. This allows for inspection of welds without needing the transducer on the weld, but rather adjacent to the weld. Learn how to competently apply Ultrasonic Shear Waves to your NDE portfolio from ND3 and make sense of those squiggly lines.

Building on the foundation set with Ultrasonic Shear Wave Level I, this Level II class delves deeper into ultrasonic theory and how to use the ultrasonic unit in real-world applications. Inspecting welds of various geometries will give you more confidence and competence in your Shear Wave inspections.

Automated Ultrasonic Testing using compression probes is like thickness measurement and phased array blended to super thickness. All the same principles are in play, but using this technique, massive amounts of thickness data can be gathered, giving precise sizing and thickness data. ND3 has taught many technicians on this method and have evaluated millions of data points collected in this manner.

One of the most employed NDE methods in the petrochemical industry for condition monitoring is Ultrasonic Thickness Testing using an A-Scan display. Completion of an ND3 Ultrasonic Thickness Course in which the display contains the waveform teaches you what the signals mean and how features like corrosion and others will affect the test.