Non-destructive testing, in particular for pipes during manufacture or in the finished state

Abstract

Device forming an operating tool, for the non-destructive testing of iron and steel products, intended to extract information on possible imperfections in the product, from feedback signals that are captured by transmitting ultrasound sensors, receiving ultrasound sensors forming an arrangement with a selected geometry, assembled to couple in an ultrasound way with the product via the intermediary of a liquid medium, with relative rotation/translation movement between the pipe and the arrangement of transducers, said operating tool being characterized in that it comprises: a converter () capable of selectively isolating a digital representation of possible echoes in designated time windows, as a function of the relative rotation/translation movement, said representation comprising the amplitude and time of flight of at least one echo, and of generating a parallelepipedic 3D graph, a transformer unit () capable of generating a 3D image () of possible imperfections in the pipe from the 3D graph and a database, a filter () capable of determining, in the images (), presumed imperfection zones (Zcur), and the properties of each presumed imperfection, and an output stage configured to generate a product conformity or non-conformity signal.