Thermal barrier of primary pump inspection

Application example

Probes

Special curved linear array probes with soft wedge
Aspherical focusing to focus through a toric interface

Coupling with water film
Custom housing for probe holder

Technique

Pulse echo technique

Benefits

High sensitivity to work through a 200 mm sound path in austenitic steel
High lateral resolution thanks to aspherical focusing

Paper

"Inspection of Thermal Barriers of primary pumps with Phased Array probe and piezocomposite technology", J Poguet - IMASONIC S.A. / E Abittan - EDF GDL , EPRI Phased Array inspection seminar, September 1998, Portland, Main, USA
Download pdf (426kb)