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News Release from: Magnetic Analysis Corporation | Subject: Echomac FD-4
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2006
Detecting flaws and measuring pipe
thickness
Ultrasonic test instrument can detect flaws and measure wall thickness and outside diameters of tubes and pipes.
Magnetic Analysis has introduced the Echomac FD-4 ultrasonic test instrument for on- or off-line inspection of tubes, bars or plates, specifically flaw detection and measurement of wall thickness and outside diameters in tube and pipe applications It is for use in new installations and retrofit applications using existing transducers
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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With 32 test channels in one system, the FD-4 provides testing on a Windows XP platform.
With the addition of outside diameter and thickness measurement, it can report inside diameter dimensions, ovality, eccentricity or wall variation.
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It can be used either with the company's Echomac Rotary UT transducer assemblies, or with other immersion, squirter, spin-the-tube and C-scan plate ultrasonic systems.
Using the Echohunter software, users can configure each channel for any combination of thickness and flaw detection.
The strip chart portion of the simultaneous strip chart/A-scan display shows peak signal values within each threshold gate for up to 16 channels.
The flicker-free A-scan captures non-repetitive events such as short duration flaws, even during high-speed UT scanning, typical of rotating transducer head systems.
Display modes include basic sample and persistence modes with adjustable decay time.
There is a 3D mode in which the prior signals fade into the background as the displacement of the transducer and reflector changes.
Operating parameters for each channel are shown on one screen and may be adjusted using the mouse.
A copy-and-paste sequence lets the user transfer parameter settings from one channel to another.
Other features include four independent flaw gates in each UT channel, simultaneous A-scan and strip chart display for up to 16 channels, and adjustable pulse firing sequence to avoid crosstalk in multi-channel applications.
An unlimited number of setups may be named, saved and recalled from the hard drive, or archived directly to a CD.
The system features high-resolution colour printing of setups, waveforms or strip chart recordings.
At the end of each run, summary reports detail the number of pieces or lengths tested, number of rejects, date of test, material and customer data.
The software also provides a test signal recorder, channel mapper, tracking system, production logging, end suppression, routing screen (to assign multiple thresholds to the desired output devices) and multi-channel views.
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