#ndt Zetec Technology Manager for PAUT, Daniel Richard, will be delivering a training course on Wednesday June 28th at the ASNT "Ultrasonics for Nondestructive Testing" event. The course is open to all attendees and is eligible for a requalification credit. Full Matrix Capture (FMC) is a data-acquisition process where each array element is sequentially used as [...]
#ndt Thermographic cameras for mobile applications have hugely developed technically in recent years. At the same time, the demand for these cameras has risen noticeably. InfraTec, one of the leading suppliers in this sector, now presents with the compactIR 400 an affordable and yet powerful inspection camera that stands out significantly from its competitors. Right from [...]
#ndt Every 3,000 miles, the car goes into the shop for an oil change and tire rotation. At the biannual teeth cleaning visit with the dentist, X-rays or fillings may be called for. Parental worries that inevitably set in once a newborn goes home from the hospital will be soothed by the confident words of her [...]
#ndt For decades, the USS Texas was one of the most feared battleships in the U.S. Navy. Armed with anti-aircraft guns during World War I, its crew kept German fleets from severing Allies' supply lines. It became the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's flagship before World War II, then fired on Nazi defenses at Normandy before being transferred [...]
#ndt Gerald "Jerry" Posakony, a longtime researcher for the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, passed away May 27, 2017, at the age of 92. Over the course of a career that included more than 40 years at PNNL, Posakony's work centered on designing, developing and deploying first-of-a-kind nondestructive evaluation inspection and measurement systems, including [...]
#ndt General Electric Co has begun testing autonomous drones and robotic "crawlers" to inspect refineries, factories, railroads and other industrial equipment with an eye on capturing a bigger slice of the $40 billion companies around the globe spend annually on inspections. In trials with customers, aerial drones and robots are able to move around and inside [...]
#ndt Today at GE’s Minds + Machines Europe event, GE Ventures announced the launch of Avitas Systems, a new company that will use predictive data analytics, robotics, and artificial intelligence to deliver advanced inspection services to the oil and gas, transportation, and energy industries. Routine inspections can be slow and costly, and often include humans performing [...]
#ndt Jesse Garant Metrology Center (USA & Canada) announced that it has expanded its operations to accommodate the growing demand for high volume part inspection for pre-production and production validation. With investments in new equipment and improved infrastructure, including state of the art industrial computed tomography systems for inspecting large parts, their enhanced capabilities solidify their [...]
#ndt Tecnatom attends for the ninth time the Paris Air Show event, with its own stand (Hall 1 F322) in the Spanish Pavilion organized by TEDAE (Spanish Association of Technological companies of Defence, Aeronautics and Space) in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade ICEX, which brings together more than twenty leading companies in aeronautics. [...]
#ndt Ductile iron is an iron-carbon casting material whose matrix includes carbon in the form of nodular graphite particles. Rounded graphite nodules in the ductile iron matrix offer greater resistance to stress concentration when compared to graphite flakes (as in gray cast iron) and, therefore, inhibit the creation of cracks. Safety-critical automotive components cast from ductile [...]