{"id":14036,"date":"2020-07-10T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/inspecting-long-seam-welds-efficiently-and-easily-using-the-axseam-scanner\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:44:00","slug":"inspecting-long-seam-welds-efficiently-and-easily-using-the-axseam-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=14036","title":{"rendered":"Inspecting Long Seam Welds Efficiently and Easily Using the AxSEAM&#x2122; Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical Challenges of Long Seam Weld Inspection<\/p>\n<p>Inspecting a long seam\u2014or axial\u2014weld is challenging both acoustically and mechanically. From an acoustic standpoint, the tube geometry tends to defocalize the ultrasonic beam, reducing the potential imaging resolution. Long seam welds forged using the electrical resistance welding (ERW) manufacturing method are prone to difficult-to-detect defects such as vertical or hook cracks. An acquisition instrument, such as the OmniScan&#x2122; X3 flaw detector, that has to&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical Challenges of Long Seam Weld Inspection Inspecting a long seam\u2014or axial\u2014weld is challenging both acoustically and mechanically. From an acoustic standpoint, the tube geometry tends to defocalize the ultrasonic beam, reducing the potential imaging resolution. Long seam welds forged using the electrical resistance welding (ERW) manufacturing method are prone to difficult-to-detect defects such as vertical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}