MIRDC’s Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing Technology Helps Assure Safety of Structures Such as Bridges, Buildings, and Railroads
The safety and integrity of materials or components of structures and facilities that people use daily need to be evaluated. Bars and beams that are used in the foundations of large structures such as bridges and buildings, massive nuts and bolts used in construction, welds and metal sheets of ships and other forms of transportation, gas tanks that are used in homes and powerplants, and most metal surfaces and welds, are just some of the examples of materials and structures whose integrity and safety are regularly checked. If there are no defects, then they are safe for the public.
The evaluation uses technologies such as phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT).
The PAUT, similar to conventional ultrasonic testing (UT), scans surfaces and welds of materials to be tested for potential defects that cannot usually be seen by the naked eye. Compared to the conventional UT, the PAUT scans complex and multiple angles with its probes and provides accurate results regarding the depth and height of defects detected. These results include data images that display the top view, side view, and end view interpretation of the scan, which the conventional UT cannot provide.
MIRDC’s conventional and phased array ultrasonic testing devices
PAUT showing image interpretations of the scanned areas
PAUT is one of the nondestructive testing (NDT) services we offer at DOST-MIRDC.
The most recent clients of the MIRDC’s PAUT services are Collins Aerospace and Hyundai Rotem. Collins Aerospace commissioned the MIRDC to test rivets that they use for their products, while Hyundai Rotem needed to have the quality of their railroad tracks certified since they supply the tracks used in the development of the Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) project.
Engr. James Asher Cabarloc of MIRDC’s NDT laboratory performing ultrasonic testing on batch samples of railroad tracks provided by the client Hyundai Rotem
Everyone’s safety is a top priority.
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