Film radiography is often used for welding inspection in offshore and onshore pipe laying, and for checking the reliability of defect detection using ultrasonic testing. However, it can be slow and ...

Federal inspectors plan by week’s end to remove pieces of steel in the new Bay Bridge to test if welds are safe by pouring acid on the samples in a lab. Inspectors began visually and magnetically ...

Although many aspects of the automobile manufacturing process are now automated, the inspection of welds is still typically performed by humans. A new robotic system, being developed in Germany, ...

Thiruvananthapuram: The Southern Railway has begun rigorous testing of rails and welds by ultrasonic flaw detecting machines to locate the internal flaws in rails in Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad ...

The Federal Highway Administration, invoking emergency funding rules, has brought two weld inspection experts to the Bay Bridge construction site to determine if worker allegations of faulty welds ...

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Within the nuclear industry, non-destructive testing (NDT) plays an important role in maintaining the safety and constant inspection of the most critical parts of nuclear power plants at a ...