Articles Tagged with ''magnetic particle inspection''

A variety of recognized methods can be used to determine the thickness of organic coatings.

Magnetic Particle Testing (MT), one of the oldest and most reliable NDT methods, is often not given the recognition it deserves.

As a quality manager, it’s your worst nightmare. One of your best customers comes for a visit and brings a box of cracked parts that came from your plant. He wants to know how it happened, and how you are going to ensure it won’t happen again.

The roots of modern nondestructive testing (NDT) date back around one hundred years.

Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) can be performed a number of different ways and oftentimes any of these methods are acceptable under the specification called out for performing the test.

Since its origin in the late 19th century when a magnetic compass was used to detect defects in magnetized cannon barrels, the selection of the right magnetic particle inspection system could be challenging.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then nondestructive testing (NDT) would be among her favorite progeny, at least with the design engineers and manufacturing sect.

The magnetic particle method of nondestructive testing is used for locating surface and near-subsurface discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials.