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
Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Tank Inspection
WINS provide Visual as well as Acoustic Emission services for the inspection of FRP tanks.
Certified Internal and External Tank Inspection - Typically 5 year inspections that includes review of previous inspection reports and inspection of flange bolts, sounding for delaminations, crazing, surface hardness, and bottom flatness, in addition to features inspected during Periodic Preventive Maintenance Inspections.
Use Acoustic Emission (AE) to inspect new and in-service FRP tanks for:
- - resin cracking,
- - fiber-matrix debonding,
- - fiber pullout,
- - fiber breakage,
- - delamination, and bond failure in assembled nozzles and manways
AE inspection can be performed on:
- - atmospheric - vertical tanks
- - atmospheric - pressure vertical tanks
- - atmospheric - vacuum vertical tanks
- - atmospheric - pressure horizontal tanks
FRP structural integrity tests typically take about 1/2 day to complete depending on pump capacity, tank capacity, and access limitations. WINS acoustic emission FRP tank inspection procedure satisfies the guidelines set forth in ASTM E 1067-07 Standard Practice for AE Examination of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic Resin (FRP) Tanks
Atmospheric FRP Tank Test Procedure
- Baseline noise level determination 10-30 minutes.
- Hold at 50% capacity for 10 minutes minimum.
- Hold at 75% capacity for 10 minutes minimum.
- Hold at 87% capacity for 10 minutes minimum
- Hold at 100% capacity for 30 minutes minimum.
*Note that different tank configurations require different fill/hold sequences.