TISEC delivers Practical Pattern Recognition Workshop for NDT in Montreal, Canada, June 28-30, 2010
TISEC's ASTIA™ Above-ground Storage Tank Inspection and Assessment goes live, March 2010.
Level III UT Training course completed in State College, PA, March 2010.
WINS presents talk on ultrasonic guided wave potential towards helicopter maintenance to Indian Air force, February 2010.
WINS funded by Transportation Research Board to develop Bridge Cable Inspection Technology, February 2010.
Watch video of Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensor Network for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring.
2010 NDT Training Course Schedule is available now!
New look of TISEC's Super ICEPak® web site, November 2009.
Download and try out TISEC's Super ICEPak® today, contact TISEC for a trial key, November 2009.
New Brunswick DOT has awarded TISEC to inspect LRUT bridge cables on 3 cable-stay bridges using new MsS system, November 2009.
WavesInSolids acquires state-of-the-art equipment for enhanced Guided Wave Inspection Services for Pipelines and Bridge Cables, November 2009.
WavesInSolids delivers Acoustic Emission Level III Training Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 5-9, 2009
WavesInSolids is awarded contract with U.S. Department of Energy for developing inspection technology for health monitoring of coal power plant components, August 2009
WavesInSolids presents a paper at NYC Bridge Conference titled "Structural health monitoring using wireless acoustic emission sensor network" in August, 2009
WavesInSolids is awarded contract with NSF for developing inspection technology for Steel Piles, July 2009
WavesInSolids presents "Acoustic emission input to inspection- based bridge maintenance" at theInternational Conference on Fracture & Fatigue in July, 2009
Guided Wave UT Training
Course Description
WINS offer highly specialized course for engineers and scientists on the guided wave ultrasonic testing method. Detailed theoretical discussions are supplemented with extensive hands-on laboratory experiences in generating guided ultrasonic waves in different material geometries for defect identification and characterization. Please contact us for customized scheduling of your classes. Courses are offered in-house as well as at client sites. The classes are taught by highly qualified and experienced scientists and engineers.
Course Dates
March 15-16, 2010
August 9-10, 2010
November 4-5, 2010
Please contact us if the dates do not suit your convenience or for client site training.
Duration: Two days (16 hours).
Course Price: $500.00 per trainee. Please contact us for pricing on client site training.
Brief Course Outline
- Review of ultrasonic wave propagation principles
- Equations of motion
- Reflection and Refraction
- Normal and Oblique incidence
- Wave scattering
- Dispersion Principles
- Group and Phase velocity concepts
- Mode conversion
- Generation of guided waves
- Transducers
- Transducer designs
- Angle-beam transducers
- EMAT transducers
- Magnetostrictive transducers
- PVDF transducers
- Waves in Plates
- Numerical solution
- Wave structure analysis
- Lamb waves
- Shear Horizontal waves
- Dispersion curves
- Multi-layered plates
- Lab work
- Waves in Rods
- Longitudinal waves
- Torsional waves
- Flexural waves
- Guided waves in thin rods and wires
- Lab work
- Waves in pipes and cylinders
- Circumferential guided waves
- Longitudinal guided waves
- Axisymmetric modes
- Flexural modes
- Leaky guided waves in liquid-loaded pipes
- Attenuation dispersion curves
- Lab work
- Interface waves