NDT - Equipment List

The NDT facility is comprehensively equipped to cover a wide range of methods. This includes both manual and advanced automated ultrasonic systems, electromagnetic crack detection, and signal processing equipment

Some major items of equipment are:

1. An eddy current array system (G)
2. A digital waveform synthesizer. (G)
3. An electromagnetic crack detection system (G)
4. A high frequency ultrasonic C-scan immersion testing system. (G)
5. A ‘P-scan’ ultrasonic flaw detection system - plus manual and mechanised scanners (G)
6. Two digital ultrasonic flaw detectors. (2G)
7. A multi-frequency eddy current instrument. (G)
8. A custom manufactured 4 channel pulser/receiver for use with long range, low frequency, ultrasonic testing (G).
9. A digital ACPD instrument (G)
10. Five ultrasonic phased array systems (4E,G)
11. A programmable pulser/receiver and function generator (G)
12. Several long range ultrasonics systems (G)
13. A thermal camera (G)

In addition the following is available at TWI Wales:

1. Two ultrasonic digital flaw detectors (G)
2. An eddy current array system (G)
3. Two real time digital x-ray tomography systems (G)
4. A long range ultrasonics system (E)
5. An automated phased array pipe scanning system (P)
6. An ACFM electromagnetic array system (G)
7. Three immersion ultrasonic systems (G)
8. A portable eddy current system (E)
9. A digital oscilloscope (E)
10. A laser shearography system (E)
11. A real time portable- C-scan system (E)
12. Three portable Phased Array systems (G)
13. An ultrasonic bond testing system (E)
14. A de-bond/de-lamination ‘tapping’ system (E)
15. A thermography system (E)