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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jimmy W Hancock, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Daniel T MacLauchlan, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
McDermott Technology, Inc., New Orleans, LA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73643 ; 73622 ; 73598 ; 376249 ;
Abstract
An EMAT testing device for nondestructively testing tubes for surface defects and displaying the results has a EMAT transmitter arranged collinear with a pair of EMAT receivers. The EMAT receivers each receive a pair of oppositely propagating circumferential acoustic surface waves from the transmitter at different times and the relative amplitudes of the received waves are compared to located defects adjacent the receivers in the tube.