Duration: 10 days

Course Content:

• Ultrasonic Principles
• Ultrasonic Equipment, Pulse Echo, Through Transmission
• Couplants, Sound Energy, Side Lobes, Beam Divergence
• Attenuation, Acoustic Impedance, Resonance
• Ultrasonic Transducers, Reference Blocks, Sensitivity, Resolution, Efficiency, Crystal Axis, Ultrasonic Lenses
• Non Relevant Ultrasonic Indications
• Ultrasonic Energy, Generation, Detection, Fundamental Frequency
• Sound Distribution, Huygens Principle, Near Field, Far Field
• Wave Characteristics, Longitudinal, Transverse, Rayleigh, Plate
• Attenuation, Beam Spread, Transmission Losses, Interference Effects
• Ultrasonic Equipment, Principles of Operation, A-Scan, B-Scan, Immersion Equipment
• Cathode Ray Tube
• The Amplifier
• Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Equipment Assessment
• Practical Applications, Reference Standards, Transfer, Straight Beam, Shear, Surface, Austenitic Steels, Sensitivity
• Instruction Writing, Reporting
• Defect Sizing, Evaluation Techniques
• Echo Dynamic Patterns
• Work shop