Ultrasonic Corrosion Mapping and Weld Integrity

WELDCOR is a specialist Non Destructive Testing service company. We focus on providing advanced ultrasonic inspections which provide our clients with invaluable integrity data which is used to calculate the safe operating life of plant and components.

Corrosion Mapping is a way of representing ultrasonic data in a 3D view, allowing us to map and measure areas of corrosion, erosion and internal defects in a way that relate directly to the part being inspected.

Time of Flight Diffraction is an ultrasonic imaging technique best suited for weld integrity inspection. It provides fast, sensitive and reliable inspection data.

The digitization of ultrasonic data collection coupled with the recent improvements in microprocessor power has lead to hardware and software that visually represents large amounts of ultrasonic data so that immediate assessments can be made about integrity. Digital inspection results can be printed, e-mailed or archived allowing for future periodic comparison

For any NDT technique to be reliable, its is necessary for the technique to have been designed with the defects of concern in mind; to be then applied according to a tried and tested procedure drawn from current legal standards and analysed according to the relevant inspection codes by competent and trained operators.

At WELDCOR, we have our own quality assured Ultrasonic procedures which link closely to BS EN 583. Our operators are qualified to BS EN 473 - PCN Level 2 in Ultrasonics.