Ultrasonic Testing

Ultrasonic testing is achieved through the use of an instrument capable of distinguishing between serious wall loss and a condition referred to as lamination.  It is also capable of filtering out external coatings (paint) which tend to magnify true thickness readings because of the extra time required for the amplified sound waves to travel to the boundary edge and return. Because, of the use of 3-D Isometric Drawings we are able designate thickness measurement locations.

UltraPipe™ a commercial computer software program is used to determine the current wall thickness status of all the equipment surveyed.

The UltraPipe™ software is designed to document equipment condition, and schedule retirement, inspection and repair. One of the software features involves the determination rates of corrosion and/or erosion. The program allows for an unlimited number of consecutive survey results to be placed into an archival database.

Ultrasonic offers:

• Thickness Surveys/Guaging
• Phased Array Unltrasonic Inpsection
• Shear Wave/Angle Beam
• B-Scan Examination
• Hardness Measurements