The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, №11



2013 №11 (08)

2013 №11 (10)

---

The Paton Welding Journal, 2013, #10/11, 69-74 pages

ADVANCED INFORMATIVE AUTOMATED SYSTEMS OF ACOUSTIC CONTROL OF WELDING

N.P. ALYOSHIN

ETC «Welding and Testing» at the N.E. Bauman MSTU. 5, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: aleshin@bmstu.ru


Abstract
Advanced domestic and foreign high-information types of equipment for acoustic testing of pipeline welded joints are considered. Their performance capabilities and disadvantages are noted. The advantages of complex scanner, realizing ultrasonic, eddy-current and visual methods of testing and developed by ETC «Welding and Testing» together with «Molniya» enterprise, were described. Given are the examples of application of AVGUR system as well as ASBAT portable device, which passed interdepartmental testing and were implemented at OJSC Gazprom for testing of welded joints in nuclear-power engineering. 1 Table, 11 Figures.


Keywords: acoustic testing, pipeline welded joints, scanner-flaw-detector, characteristics of testing system, portable device, head wave


Received:                12.04.13
Published:               06.11.13

---