Plates & Coils
We offer ultrasonic, eddy current (for Hard Spots) and hybrid plate testing systems. These systems can be categorized in three categories namely manual trolley, semi-automatic gantry and fully automatic online/offline systems.
Ultrasonic/Eddy Current (Hard Spot) Plate Testing Trolley
The RIDER is a manual trolley system with a sophisticated, PC-based, and flexible SonaFlex platform. It tests the quality of plates and slabs using ultrasonic waves (UT) or Eddy Current (EC) for Hard Spots.
Salient Features
- Perfect signal-to-noise ratio
- Thickness 3 – 250 mm
- Material – carbon steel etc.
- Plates are to be tested on the floor
- Small or no untested zones at edges
- Temperature from +0 °C to +40 °C
- High & smooth sensitivity through the whole plate thickness
- Test capacity – upto 7 plates/hour (for 12m x 4m plate)
- Meets most of international standards & specifications
- Minimum Hard spot size 10 mm x 10 mm or less *
- No influence of rolling scale *
- No influence of residual magnetization *
- Demagnetization is not required *
*Applicable for the eddy-current (Hard spot) testing system
Gantry Based Ultrasonic/Eddy Current (Hard Spot) Plate Testing System
These systems are ideal where the throughput requirements are not very high, flexible system for testing plates for laminations with (UT/PAUT/EMAT) or Hard Spots (EC) or simultaneous test for laminations and hard spots.
Specifications of plates to be tested
- Perfect signal-to-noise ratio
- Length 1 – 50 m
- Width 500 – 6000 mm
- Thickness 3 – 250 mm
- Material – carbon steel etc
- Test speed of up to 1 m/s
- Temperature -10°C to +80°C /-20°C to +600°C (EMAT)
- Test capacity – upto 12 plates/hour (for 12m x 4m plate)
- Small or no untested zones at edges
- Plates are on the floor or on the roller conveyor
- High & smooth sensitivity through the whole plate thickness
- Meets most of international standards & specifications
- Minimum Hard spot size 10 mm x 10 mm or less *
- No influence of rolling scale *
- No influence of residual magnetization *
- Demagnetization is not required *
*Applicable for the eddy-current (Hard spot) testing system
Offline/Online Ultrasonic/Eddy Current (Hard spot) Plate Testing System
These systems are ideal where the throughput requirements are high, flexible system for testing plates & coils for laminations with (UT/PAUT/EMAT) or Hard Spots (EC) or simultaneous test for laminations and hard spots.
Specifications of plates to be tested
- Perfect signal-to-noise ratio
- Length 1 – 100 m & more
- Width 500 – 6000 mm
- Thickness 3 – 250 mm
- Material – carbon steel etc.
- Test speed of up to 1.5 m/s
- Temperature -10°C to +80°C /-20°C to +600°C (EMAT)
- Plates are on the roller conveyor
- Small or no untested zones at edges
- Test capacity – upto 80 plates/hour (for 12m x 4m plate)
- High & smooth sensitivity through the whole plate thickness
- Meets most of international standards & specifications
- Minimum Hard spot size 10 mm x 10 mm or less *
- No influence of rolling scale *
- No influence of residual magnetization *
- Demagnetization is not required *
*Applicable for the eddy-current (Hard spot) testing system
Ultrasonic Ingots/Slab Testing System
These systems are intended for ultrasonic inspection (convention or phased array) of Ingots or slabs made of non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, titanium, copper etc.
Specifications of plates/slabs to be tested
- Perfect signal-to-noise ratio
- Length: from 3 m to 12 m (for Immersion) from 1 m to 20 m (for non-immersion)
- Width: 100 mm – 3000 mm (for Immersion)1 – 5 m (for non-immersion)
- Thickness: 3-200 mm (for Immersion) 3-800 mm (for non-immersion)
- Material: Titanium or aluminum
- Sensitivity – FBH 0.8 mm or higher
- Sensitivity for surface defects – notch 0.2 mm x 10 mm (D x W)
- Untested zones – 1.5 mm under surfaces
- Automatic calibration and verification
- Layer-to-layer electronical scanning by phase array focusing technique
- Reference test capacity:
Immersion: Test about–10 sq.mtr/hr for thickest plate
Non-immersion: time for testing of one plate of
8 m x 3 m is about 30 min for thickest plate - Standards: AMS, NADCAP, BOEING, AIRBUS, ASTM, EN, IGC
