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TISEC delivers Practical Pattern Recognition Workshop for NDT in Montreal, Canada, June 28-30, 2010

TISEC's ASTIA™ Above-ground Storage Tank Inspection and Assessment goes live, March 2010.

Level III UT Training course completed in State College, PA, March 2010.

WINS presents talk on ultrasonic guided wave potential towards helicopter maintenance to Indian Air force, February 2010.

WINS funded by Transportation Research Board to develop Bridge Cable Inspection Technology, February 2010.

Watch video of Wireless Acoustic Emission Sensor Network for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring.

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New look of TISEC's Super ICEPak® web site, November 2009.

Download and try out TISEC's Super ICEPak® today, contact TISEC for a trial key, November 2009.

New Brunswick DOT has awarded TISEC to inspect LRUT bridge cables on 3 cable-stay bridges using new MsS system, November 2009.

WavesInSolids acquires state-of-the-art equipment for enhanced Guided Wave Inspection Services for Pipelines and Bridge Cables, November 2009.

WavesInSolids delivers Acoustic Emission Level III Training Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 5-9, 2009

WavesInSolids is awarded contract with U.S. Department of Energy for developing inspection technology for health monitoring of coal power plant components, August 2009

WavesInSolids presents a paper at NYC Bridge Conference titled "Structural health monitoring using wireless acoustic emission sensor network" in August, 2009

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UT Welding Testing Training

Course Description

TISEC offer 40-hour classes focused on the use of Ultrasonic Testing for the inspection of welds. This course supplements the existing UT Level I & II courses and provides emphasis on the relevant standards such as AWS D1.1, AWS D1.5 etc. This course includes intensive hands-on laboratory sessions on the calibration, scanning, interpretation and evaluation techniques.

Course Dates

February 15-19, 2010
August 2-6, 2010
October 18-22, 2010

This course is offered by appointment as well. Please contact us about your dates of convenience.

Duration: Five days (40 hours). Four 10-hour day option available.

Course Price: $975.00 per trainee. We offer client site training as well. Additional instructor traveling costs may apply.

Brief Course Outline

  1. Welding Processes
  2. Weld Geometries
  3. Origin and Orientation of Flaws
  4. Applicable Codes and Standards
  5. Weld Testing Techniques
    1. Visual inspection
    2. Liquid Penetrant Testing
    3. Conventional UT
      1. Normal beam inspection
      2. Angle beam inspection (Shear wave)
    4. Phased Array UT
    5. Time of Flight Diffraction technique
    6. Advanced Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing
  6. Data Interpretation
    1. Weld Sizing Techniques
    2. DAC curve evaluation
    3. AWS system evaluation
    4. Digital Flaw detection
    5. Data Storage
  7. Documentation and Reporting