Nondestructive Testing Equipment Reference Materials

Description: Advantages of Lithium-ion Batteries ...

Description: As a core tool for modern industrial inspection, industrial endoscopes play an irreplaceable role in the machinery manufacturing industry. Through non-destructive inspection technology, they can ...

Description: The application of industrial endoscopes in the field of electronic manufacturing is deepening with the growth of precision manufacturing and intelligent testing needs. With its technical advantages ...

Description: The higher the pixel of an industrial endoscope, the better. Instead, it needs to be weighed comprehensively according to the specific application scenario, detection requirements and cost budget. The ...

Description: Understanding Manhole Problems ...

Description: In the ultimate sign of equipment longevity and reliability, 25 years after the Toney Lumber Company in Louisburg, North Carolina installed its original rugged Fortress Technology lumber inspection ...

Description: Hydrophobic properties, pollution performance, ease of handling, low cost and compact power designs incredibly increase the use of composite insulators which are also called polymer insulators and NCI ...

Description: Moisture analysis plays a vital role in all areas of the food industry, from goods-in inspection, through quality control, production and storage, to the development of new products. In nearly all ...

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Description: 2020 has taught us a very important lesson - the most significant aspect of life is safety. In this new world, we've seen events cancelled, planes grounded and whole industries grind to a halt. ...

Description: Controlling the melting process by verifying melt chemistry is essential to ensure the melt is meeting the specification limits of the grade to be cast. Spark optical emission spectroscopy has been ...

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Description: A sausage processing plant company based in Canada is currently catering to the local market. It's making impressive in roads in establishing a wider following by going well and beyond the common ...

Description: With Nanotek technology, we offer a safer, more environmentally friendly, lead-free solution to traditionally lead-based radiation shielding products. ...

Description: Ensuring that people and products are well-protected from radiation in the work environment is crucial. This is especially the case in the medical research industry, wherein researchers and ...

Description: Industrial x-ray and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) play a crucial role in our everyday lives by ensuring safety and reliability of everything from aircraft parts, to bridges and power stations. ...

Description: This Case Study details how a large utility and power generation company improved its maintenance planning and inspection efficacy by capturing high-quality visual data that would give an accurate ...

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Description: Fish feed manufacturers produce pellets that vary in size, oil content (from 5 to 40%) and moisture (usually less than 10%). Measuring the oil and moisture content is essential for quality control to ...

Description: Although wax was originally treated as a waste product by the oil refining industry, it is now widely used in manufacturing because of its specific mechanical and physical properties (flexibility, ...

Description: Cocoa beans are processed to extract cocoa liquor and cocoa butter, both major ingredients of dark and milk chocolate. Cocoa beans are roasted, separated from their shell and cracked into nib. Nib is ...

Description: Xylene solubles' (XS) is a historically established term denoting the percentage of soluble species in polypropylene homo- and co-polymers. In practice, this measurement is widely used for product ...

Description: Modern toothpastes are designed to do more than just clean teeth. Hence, they contain many additives, either for health or for cosmetic reasons, such as components to prevent tooth decay, colorants, ...

Description: Fat content is an important nutritional and quality control parameter in the manufacture of animal feed, therefore a fast and reliable measurement is required for process optimisation. Nuclear ...

Description: Accurate and fast determination of oil and water content in oilseeds is important to breeders, growers and buyers for determining the commercial value of crops such as rape (canola), sunflower, ...

Description: Measuring the oil content of dried snack foods is essential for quality control to ensure that the products meet their nutritional values specifications. The amount of oil used is also important in ...

Description: Measuring the oil content of Jatropha seeds is important for two reasons: firstly, for non-destructive measurement of single seeds, to select high oil content specimens for propagation, secondly, for ...

Description: Wax (paraffin) content is an important characteristic affecting the physical properties of petroleum products, in particular their viscosity and setting temperature. This not only affects their ...

Description: The hydrogen content of aviation fuel is an important parameter as it determines the combustion properties of the fuel. Traditional methods such as smoke point, smoke volatility index and luminometer ...

Description: The drop test, also known as the “package drop test machine�, is used to simulate the different edges, angles and faces of the product when it is dropped on the ground at different heights to ...

Description: In the production of plastic parts for industrial electronics and automotive components, whether in small series with less than 500 parts per year or with annual production volumes of several million ...

Description: Investments in machines and systems for the protection against contaminants and for metal detection in the food industry for many years have an influence on a factory's internal processes and on its ...

Description: The Middle East based State Owned Utility company use the IRISS Sonus PD instrument to test for Partial Discharge in their medium voltage Switchgear and accessories. In March 2014, high levels of ...

Description: Additive manufacturing (AM), sometimes referred to as 3D printing, is believed to be one of the greatest opportunities of our era and has the potential to completely change many business landscapes in ...

Description: Digital Radiography, or DR for short, is a 2D X-ray inspection method using a digital X-ray detector in place of X-ray film. DR allows for real-time X-ray inspection of your part or object - no more ...

Description: Many facilities have embraced the safety requirements of NFPA 70E and the safetyby-design features now available from most electrical switchgear manufacturers. Many times in the past, however, failure ...

Description: One of our distribution partners, Iris Systems, was recently approached by one of their clients who had moved premises into a purpose built manufacturing facility. The client's engineering team were ...

Description: One of our distribution partners, Iris Systems, was recently approached by one of their clients who had moved premises into a purpose built manufacturing facility. The client's engineering team were ...

Description: Connected Power Phosphate Services LLC of Lakeland, Florida services the maintenance needs of the mining sector in Florida and Georgia and are a preferred channel partner of IRISS Inc. One of their ...

Description: One of our clients, a UK Automotive Manufacturer with a long and storied history, recently suffered an arc flash incident on a transformer which resulted in the cable connection door being dislodged ...

Description: Angle beam assemblies, consisting of a transducer and a wedge, are extremely important to the field of ultrasonic nondestructive testing, commonly used in a wide variety of weld inspection ...

Description: The high-frequency sound waves used for flaw detection and thickness gaging in ultrasonic nondestructive testing applications are generated and received by small probes called ultrasonic transducers. ...

Description: Advances in transducer manufacturing technology and associated instrument electronics have led to the introduction of commercial products that provide the capability for ultrasonic imaging, thickness ...

Description: Pipelines are now using Fitness-For-Service (FFS) for accept/reject of weld defects. FFS requires accurate measurement of defect height for Fracture Mechanics assessments. The standard pipeline weld ...

Description: This paper provides a brief summary of advanced detection and sizing techniques for the evaluation of flaws connected to the inner surface of test material. In general, these techniques have found ...

Description: This paper is intended to provide information to help the user in selecting the right E.C. probe(s) for a given inspection. Using this data, best results will be achieved by optimizing the frequency ...

Description: Throughout the literature concerned with ultrasonic transducers and their characteristics, a variety of notations and symbols has been used. What follows is an attempt to provide a useful set of ...

Description: Many people are familiar with the medical applications of ultrasonic imaging, in which high frequency sound waves are used to create highly detailed cross-sectional pictures of internal organs. ...

Description: Magnetism, the underlying principle behind electric motors and generators, relays and stereo speakers, is also the force that enables an important category of NDT tools called eddy current ...

Description: While a majority of the applications for ultrasonic nondestructive testing fall into a few well-known categories, the range of possibilities for the technology is large and new tests are constantly ...

Description: Adhesive-bonded components and structures have become an important part of manufacturing, not only in the aerospace industry but also in the automotive, wood-based panel, and marine industries. The ...

Description: Surface roughness indicates the state of a machined surface. For example, when representing the surface of a component, surface roughness can be examined by eye or rubbed with a fingertip. Expressions ...

Description: Ultrasonic nondestructive testing (NDT) - a method of characterizing material thickness, integrity, or other physical properties by means of high frequency sound waves -- is a widely used technique ...

Description: Of all the applications of industrial ultrasonic testing, flaw detection is the oldest and the most common. Since the 1940s, the laws of physics that govern the propagation of sound waves through ...

Description: Ultrasonic thickness gaging is a widely used nondestructive test technique for measuring the thickness of a material from one side. It is fast, reliable, and versatile, and unlike a micrometer or ...

Description: The Technical Notes section is designed to provide a brief overview of the ultrasonic principles important to transducer application and design. The Technical Notes are organized in the following ...

Description: AdBlue®, also known as DEF, is an aqueous urea solution. It lowers nitrogen oxides in diesel emissions. International standards demand that refractive index be measured for the determination of ...

Description: Many strip producers struggle with the preparation and calibration of the large number of plates needed for radiometric gauges. This white paper discusses calibration plate preparation and provides an ...

Description: A breadboard setup constructed at MOXTEK, Inc., is capable of capturing both x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray ?uorescence (XRF) information simultaneously using a charge-coupled device (CCD) as the ...

Description: Proactivity has recently been used to solve the problems that have plagued the industry with tubing-retrievable safety valve (TRSV) performance as development has ventured into deep-water ...

Description: Ultrasound testing (UT) is a very useful and versatile nondestructive testing method that allows for a full volumetric examination of your component. It uses high-frequency sound waves that are ...

Description: Quality control of painting processes in automobile manufacturing is becoming increasingly important. The requirements for efficient corrosion protection and paint quality are growing with the ...

Description: Worldwide demand for electricity is growing and the driving force to develop new technologies and materials for alternative energy generation has been increasing due to economic, environmental, and ...

Description: Ultrasound as a predictive maintenance tool is used successfully in many industrial applications in industries of all kinds. It is used as an inspection tool for detecting positive and negative ...

Description: In order to sustain long-term success, many HVAC manufacturers are seeking ways to decrease cost and increase productivity. Automotive manufacturers are exerting pressure for longer warranties and ...

Description: Most medical device manufacturers still produce and test in batches, counting on their process guidelines to ensure product quality. But unless all the variables can be controlled-from operator hand ...

Description: Signature Analysis is a science that allows medical device manufacturers to understand, in great detail, the physics underlying the successful manufacturing and assembly of their devices. One method, ...

Description: Can HVAC manufacturers maintain or increase their profits given the challenges they are facing? On one hand, they are pressured by their automotive manufacturer customers who increase feature ...

Description: Coating thickness measurement is a concern for both finishers and for companies receiving finished components. Defective coatings lead to rust. As a result, product liability requires quality control ...