PA UT (PAUT): Longitudinal Seams (Welds)

ISONIC EXPERT CU software application was created for the inspection of the:
  • longitudinal seams (welds) with symmetrical bevel in the tubes, vessels, and the like
  • spiral welds and welds between the spherically shaped members
  • parent material in the tubes, pressure vessels, solid and hollow shafts, rings, lugs, hollow and solid shpere shapes, and the like for the:
    • longitudinal cracks
    • corrosion damages on the ID and OD surfaces
with use of the wedged linear array probes with contoured contact face situated on the OD surface of the parent material

ISONIC EXPERT CU IN software application was created for the inspection of the:
  • longitudinal seams (welds) with symmetrical bevel in the tubes, vessels, and the like
  • spiral welds and welds between the spherically shaped members
  • parent material in the tubes, pressure vessels, hollow shafts, rings, lugs, hollow and solid shpere shapes, and the like for the:
    • longitudinal cracks
    • corrosion damages on the ID and OD surfaces
with use of the wedged linear array probes with contoured contact face situated on the ID surface of the parent material

It is presumend the use of linear array probes with the wedges having the appropriately contoured contact face




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Both inspection software options are available for the ISONIC 3510, ISONIC 2010, and ISONIC 2009 UPA Scope instruments and featured with:
  • Built-In Weld Geometry Editor and Ray Tracer - Scanning Pattern (Scan Plan) Design
  • Automatic Curvature Correction for the wedges with contoured contact face
  • Intuitive Image Guided PA Pulser Receiver with Beam Forming View
  • True-To-Geometry Cross-Sectional Coverage and line scanning along the fusion line either encoded or time based
  • "On-the-fly" True-To-Geometry Weld Overlay Volume Corrected Imaging:
    • Cross Sectional Slices
    • Top (C-Scan) View - Unfolded
    • Side View
    • End View
    • 3D View
  • DAC / TCG Data / Image Normalization
  • Independent on TCG Angle Gain Compensation / Gain Per Focal Law Correction
  • Automatic Coupling Monitor
  • 100% Raw Data Capturing
  • FMC/TFM Protocol for the data acquisition and imaging
  • Automatic Defects Alarming Upon C-Scan Acquisition Completed
  • Automatic Creation of Editable Defects List
  • Comprehensive Postrpocessing Toolkit Including:
    • Recovery and Evaluation of the Captured A-Scans from the Recorded Cross Sectional Views and C-Scans
    • Recovery of the Cross Sectional Views from the Recorded C-Scans
    • Converting Recorded C-Scans or their Segments into 3D Images
    • Off-Line Gain Manipulation
    • Off-Line DAC Normalization of the Recorded Images / DAC Evaluation
    • Numerous Filtering / Reject Options ( by Geometry / Position / By Amplitude db-toDAC / etc ) and Regeneration of the Corresponding of Editable Defects List and Storing it into a Separate FIle
    • Defects Sizing
    • Automatic creating of inspection reports - hard copy / PDF File
The videos below illustrate the inspection and data presentation provided by the ISONIC 3510, ISONIC 2010, and ISONIC 2009 UPA Scope instruments whilst inspection the longitudinal welds (seams) in the pipes, pressure vessels, etc and the postprocessing of the said data







The video below illustrates inspection application related to the detection of fatigue cracks in the bushing hole area of the hardly-to-access metallic lugs used in various aircraft using ISONIC EXPERT CU inspection SW Package



Video of the inspection of pipe wall for the detection and quantitative evaluation of the touch point corrosion, corrosion under pipe support (CUPS), corrosion under insulation (CUI), etc and of the ID side corrosion for the same cases is shown below:



Scanning above the spherically shaped surface using the wedged linear array probe with SøCUC-contoured contact face is shown in the short videos below





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DOWNLOAD AND PLAYBACK THE EXEMPLARY INSTRUMENTS FILES

The archive comprices some Exemplary Instrument Files for this application

The files should be extracted from the archive and played in the regular PC running under Win'XP, 7, 8, 10 with use of the freely distributable ISONIC PA Office software package