EchoFLOW™ fluid couplant was developed for extreme weather AUT and scanner UT inspections. EchoFLOW is a low cost AUT fluid couplant that is easy to pump in very cold environments (as low as -40°F/C) and will not boil on parts up to 240°F / 115°C. EchoFLOW’s increased acoustic impedance reduces surface noise on rough surfaces and [...]
Thales Alenia Space is one of the major worldwide players in the Aerospace industry, manufacturing satellites for customers all around the world that geo-localize and connect anyone or anything and observe our planet. With more than 40 years expertise in the sector, Thales Alenia Space delivers innovative solutions for telecommunications, navigation, earth observation, exploration, science, and [...]
Carestream’s Non Destructive Testing (NDT) business has achieved another technology breakthrough in digital radiography for NDT. The new, next-generation HPX-DR Non-Glass detector—specifically built for durability and reliability in harsh environments—will be on display at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing annual conference in Las Vegas, November 18-21. "We’re continuously out in the field working side-by-side with [...]
Varex Imaging Corporation (Nasdaq: VREX) exhibited its latest industrial Nondestructive Testing (NDT) imaging products at the Annual Meeting for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in Las Vegas from November 18-21, 2019. ASNT Fall is a global event to share ideas and expertise in the field and is attended by many NDT specialists ranging from researchers [...]
Trishelle Copeland-Johnson is a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering (MSE). She is currently researching the explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in 2011, and she recently was awarded the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship. Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? What is your academic background? Why did [...]
Footprint evidence of human-megafauna interactions remains extremely rare in the archaeological and palaeontological records. Recent work suggests ancient playa environments may hold such evidence, though the prints may not be visible. These so-called "ghost tracks" comprise a rich archive of biomechanical and behavioral data that remains mostly unexplored. Here we present evidence for the successful detection [...]
Leading industrial drone solutions provider Terra Drone Corporation has successfully demonstrated its non-destructive testing (NDT) capabilities by inspecting a 160-meter chimney at a thermal power plant in Japan. The chimney inspection was conducted using ultrasonic testing (UT) drone developed by Terra Drone group company Terra Inspectioneering, a market leader in wireless inspection of industrial, hazardous, and [...]
Could industrial machines become MacGyver-like in learning and acting on the fly to solve complex problems? One of the keys will be demonstrating AI that can meaningfully learn from visual and contextual cues. This is the focus of a new research project by scientists from GE and Siena College scientists through DARPA’s Grounded Artificial Intelligence Language [...]
Stress Engineering Services, Inc., (SES) the global leader in consulting engineering services and solutions, has acquired Laserstream, LP, a technical service company specializing in laser mapping of tubular assets. The acquisition will provide high-resolution pipe ID scanning hardware and imaging software while enhancing SES’s competencies within upstream, midstream, downstream, aerospace, consumer, and medical services. The acquisition [...]
Innovation Polymers introduces a new formulation couplant for long term acoustic coupling. Aquabond 200 is a lower viscosity polymeric couplant than the initially introduced Aquabond 100. The new couplant can be easily applied without the aid of heating. Due to its lower viscosity, Aquabond 200 provides an excellent means of coupling probes to refracting wedges or [...]