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Cooperheat On Site Inspection

Services are planned and
conducted in accordance with
ISO 9001:2000 quality
controlled procedures.

Cooperheat personnel are fully

Time of Flight Diffraction (ToFD) trained in all required safety and

technical matters.

How It Works Cooperheat equipment is

regularly inspected and
maintained to ensure reliability
and safety.

ToFD is arguably the most versatile and certainly the most extensively ‘proven’ of
all non-intrusive in-spection techniques.

Developed in the early 1970’s in response to the nuclear industry’s need to more
accurately ‘size’ and characterisation integrity affecting flaws in critical plant components
during service. The benefits of the technique have only started to be fully recognised and
accepted by the rest of industry over the last few years. This belated recognition is largely
attributable to the inevitable inertia of established practise and over emphasis on the
unique sizing capabilities inherent with the technique. But the real virtue of ToFD is its
unprecedented ability to efficiently and reliably detect the presence of both fabrication
and service induced defects – particularly those affecting integrity due to their through
wall orientation – whilst simultaneously providing the data necessary for accurate
assessment of their size.

This applicational efficiency and inherent ■ Stress/chemically assisted micro-

reliability means that ToFD is an ideal cracking – SCC, LTHA
replacement for both radiography and ■ Corrosion/erosion profiling – incl. weld
more subjective reflectivity based root erosion Specialised personnel and
ultrasonic methods and, as such, ■ Thick wall components equipment, reliable and cost
constitutes a valuable source of IT for the ■ Clad/lining interface bond/cracking. efficient
effective management of vital production ■ Pressure systems, vessels, tanks,
assets. spheres, pipelines etc. At Cooperheat we do
whatever it takes to deliver
How it works excellence in advanced
ToFD Limitations
With ToFD, a single line scan of a pair of inspection services.
■ Lateral wave impedes near surface
angle compression wave probes held at a Product data sheets are
resolution available for all items
fixed separation can provide full ■ Additional B-scans necessary for
manufactured and services
volumetric coverage of both weld and transverse positioning supplied by Cooperheat.
HAZ and generate an immediate scale ■ Sees everything (down to grain Contact us today for all
image of through wall condition with structure) so interpretation can be your requirements.
defects shown in true location and size. difficult if material/weld quality is very
The wide beam used defines the test poor
surface by generating a lateral wave and
the inner surface by reflections off the
ToFD Benefits
material ‘backwall’. Any anomalies lying
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■ Non-destructive, non-intrusive &

between these
efficient (>10m/hr)
two surfaces
■ Sensitive to integrity critical defects
are highlighted
by signals (e.g. cracks) Locations worldwide:
■ Reports actual thro’ wall position/extent
diffracted and - Australia
reflected off & length - Kuwait
■ Fast volumetric coverage – irrespective - Malaysia
their
extremities. of thickness - New Zealand
■ Accurate, reliable & repeatable - Saudi Arabia
The lateral
location and detection & sizing - The Netherlands
■ Immediate results in graphical format. - United Arab Emirates
length of these
■ Not ‘equivalent, subjective or - United Kingdom
discontinuities
comparative - USA
is reported as
a function of ■ On stream application @ elevated
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encoded scan temperature Fax: + 44 (0) 1695 713501
position. ■ Not affected by defect orientation
■ All data stored for off-line retrieval & Cooperheat is a member of the
ToFD Applications analysis Stork Materials Technology
■ Fabrication QC – especially ‘in-situ’ ■ Accepted by major client & regulatory group of companies
construction bodies
■ Service induced defects & structural This datasheet contains general
information, no rights can be derived
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