Wood Pole Inspection, Treatment, and Asset Management Introduction Utility pole asset management is an exciting market in North America...

Fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) tanks are common storage tanks for a wide variety of hazardous chemicals from hydrochloric acid to...

Acoustic emission generated by composite pressure vessels, in theory, should be relatively straight forward to analyze and to draw...

Wood Pole Testing Thomas Hay Ph.D., P.E. Introduction to Wood Pole Testing Wood pole inspection is a surprisingly large inspection market...

Ultrasonic testing of steel and aluminum U.S. DOT cylinders is required to recertify the cylinders every 5 or 10 years depending on the...

Liquid Penetrant Testing (LPT) is a non-destructive testing (NDT) technique used to detect surface flaws that may not be detectable to...

Aluminum Sensitization and Non-destructive Testing Aluminum alloy ship hulls are utilized on many commercial and military ship platforms....

Cement plants are large scale operations that require large scale machines to produce the materials required to build a wide variety of...

Ultrasonic testing (UT) performed in immersion tanks or using squirters or bubblers is an established non-destructive testing technology...

Flow iron recertification is a multi-step process that involves asset tracking, equipment teardown and rebuild, sand blasting and...

Introduction Flow accelerated corrosion (FAC), also termed flow assisted corrosion, is a phenomenon wherein carbon steel components with...

Thomas R. Hay (PhD, PE) and Suhaib Zafar Introduction Eddy Current Testing (ECT) utilizes the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction — a...

There are a wide variety of testing methods that are commonly used within the field of non-destructive testing (NDT) including but not...

Non-destructive testing training courses are often rigorous and time intensive commitments. These courses often follow NDT topical,...

Welded steel bridges consist of many fracture critical members (FCMs) that are require periodic non-destructive testing (NDT) for fatigue...

Introduction Non-destructive testing (NDT) of welds with phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) and more recently the total focusing...

Introduction Acoustic emission testing (AET) is a well-established non-destructive testing (NDT) technology commonly used to detect...