Ultrasonic Inspection

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.

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.