Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Michel Joseph Gilles Gaudet

Stuart T Craig

Kristopher Jones

Kenneth Robert Chaplin

Glenn Curtis Longhurst

David Walter Dunford

Paul Gregory Adams

Robert Hayden Lumsden

Helene Marie Hebert

Kristopher Kyle Jones

Hélène Marie HÉBERT

Stuart Thomas Craig

A phased array ultrasonic probe may be mounted to a component to be inspected for wall thickness on an apparatus that includes a split ring adapted to be magnetically held in place on the component. In particular, the probe may be mounted to a carriage connected to the split ring in a manner that allows the carriage to rotate around the split ring while the probe is in operation. Between the probe and the component, a transducer shoe defining, by a flexible membrane, a cavity and an aperture. Conveniently, the construction of the flexible membrane allows wall thickness measurements to be acquired in portions of the component that have complex topography, such as welds. The apparatus is installed on an adaptor assembly for inspection of straight section of pipes. This adaptor assembly is not used in absence of straight section. By acquiring data from multiple output pulse transmitted at multiple incidence angles, processing software may conveniently produce an accurate wall thickness map of the area of interest on the component.

Profiling tool for determining material thickness for inspection sites having complex topography

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Pembroke, Canada

Michel Joseph Gilles Gaudet