Ultrasonic testing technology has improved dramatically and continuously, now offering advanced imaging power with high resolution.

There are multiple ways to speed up a TFM inspection. But there’s one novel and unique method that speeds up data collection while maintaining the sensitivity and meeting the amplitude fidelity requirements for TFM code compliance.

In this paper, we introduce a newly developed semi-analytical model to predict the total focusing method (TFM) amplitude sensitivity map for both nondirectional and directional flaws.

The same leaps in technology that have taken us from Pac-Man to today’s virtual-reality gaming are having a big impact on nondestructive inspection.

Although initially developed as a method for detecting defects in structures in order to safeguard against catastrophic failures, ultrasonic non-destructive testing (NDT) has evolved immensely to a technique considered the mainstay for the NDT industry.