Level I MT-PT Training course scheduled for October 2010 in State College, PA.
Level II UT Training course scheduled for September 2010 in State College, PA.
Level I UT Training course scheduled for August 2010 in State College, PA.
Level III Acoustic Emission Training course completed (July 30) in State College, PA.
Level III UT Training course completed (July 23) in State College, PA.
Level II Acoustic Emission Testing course completed (July 16) in State College, PA
UT weld inspection course completed (July 8) in State College, PA
Level II Ultrasonic Testing course completed (July 2) in State College, PA
Level III UT Training course completed in State College, PA, June 2010
WINS personnel delivered invited speech on H-Pile inspection technology at "Life cycle performance of bridges and structures" conference at Changsha, China in June 2010
View a presentation on the Principles and applications of long range ultrasound, from ASNT Greater Phila chapter meeting, April 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
WINS' long range ultrasonic technology (LRUT) for rail inspection is designed to be retrofitted onto Hy-Rail vehicles. The EMATs are housed inside and aluminum enclosure to protect the electronics from the environment. Inspect your track for internal flaws in conjunction with your weekly visual inspections. The sensor cables are installed along the Hy-Rail vehicle chassis into the cab of the vehicle and connected to the ultrasonic instrumentation. In-vehicle computer, keyboard and monitor are used to alert the rail inspector to rail flaws.
The LRUT technology is designed to detect the most costly rail flaws ~ head defects. Long range ultrasound travels axially in the rail at distances ranging from a few feet to a few hundred feet depending on the application. Powerful ultrasonic waves are reflected from transverse defects and rail breaks when the longitudinally traveling wave strikes the discontinuity.
Long range ultrasound is generated efficiently in rail using non-contact electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs). The EMATs travel along the rail head and introduce pulses of ultrasound into the rail head. The pulses flood the rail head with ultrasonic energy that reflect powerfully from transverse oriented rail flaws and discontinuities. The ultrasound penetrates underneath surface shelling and engine burns to detect hidden transverse flaws that are commonly missed by tradition rail flaw inspection techniques. The analysis software is embedded with artificial intelligence capabilities. Pattern recognition classifiers are used to classify defects in real-time. Each defect is tagged with GPS coordinates for follow-up inspection and reporting purposes.