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The rings are made of steel, aluminium, titanium and various alloys and are manufactured as rectangular cross-section rings or contour rolled rings. A great range of rings with weights between 20lbs (10 kg) and 44 Tons (40 metric tons). These products have previously been inspected for homogeneity and defects by manual ultrasonic methods. However, a need for automated inspection and detailed quality documentation was recognized.
The first solution to automated ultrasonic inspection was implemented at the customer's facility to deliver probe rails for moving the probes and P-scan 4 for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. During the inspection phase probe rails were mounted temporarily on the lathe machine in place of the machine cutting tools.
A second solution was implemented. This solution used a new machine dedicated to rotate rings up to 10' (3 meters) diameter during ultrasonic inspection. The second solution used a flexible permanent set-up of probe rails.
The rectangular cross-section rings are inspected while each ring is placed vertically in the test stand and rotated. The ultrasonic probes are mounted on he probe rail and moved on the face and outside surface of the ring. The P-scan 4 can inspect two surfaces simultaneously with up to eight probes. The ultrasonic data are analyzed with the P-scan 4 software and all data are saved in the company's quality documentation system.