Indian Society for Non-destructive Testing (ISNT)

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Need for NDT

A Doctor testing a patient; a Scientist/Engineer/Technician tests the fitness of the material.. Thus, NDT is necessary. The need to ensure safety, NDT can be used to improve output and profitability. A component /structure/machine can be tested many times using several types of tests through the complete life cycle to ensure its continued integrity. Choosing the right method and techniques is an important part of the performance of NDT

Industry Parlance
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NDT is the keyword for Quality in industries.

NDT is used in a variety of settings that covers a wide range of industrial activity, with new NDT methods and applications, being continuously developed. NDT services are not only integrated with Asset Integrity Management (AIM) solutions, but also with Material Testing laboratories and seamlessly fit into Supply Chain services

Industrial plants such as Nuclear, Petrochemical, Power, Refineries, Pulp and Paper, Fabrication shops, Mine processing and their Risk Based Inspectionprogrammes.

Pressure vessels

Storage tanks

Welds

Boilers

Heat exchangers

Turbine bores

In-plant Piping

Full Storage tank Assessment

Shutdown Inspections

In-service Equipment Inspections

Miscellaneous

Pipelines

In-line Inspection using “pigs”

Pipeline integrity management

Leak Detection

Pipeline Open Data Standard

ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping as-built Inspections

Piping and Pressure Vessel Corrosion Monitoring

Railways

Tubular NDT, for Tubing material

Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI)

Amusement park rides

Submarines and other Naval warships

Wire Rope Testing for, Crane Wires, Mooring Wires, Rope-way Wires

Aviation maintenance companies use Nondestructive Testing (NDT) to inspect or detect cracks, flaws or imperfections in engine parts. Aerospace

Airframes

Spaceframes

Powerplants

Propellers

Reciprocating Engines

Gas turbine engines

Rocketry

Automotive

Structures parts

Frame

Construction

Structures

Bridges

Cover Meter

Maintenance, repair and operations

Bridges

Manufacturing

Machine parts

Castings and Forgings

Fabrication Inspection

NDT supports various kinds of engineering activities like mechanical, automotive, civil, electronics and many others. Hence it is utilised by a gamut of industries that deal with manufacturing processes using any or all of the above mentioned engineering process and further beyond.

NDT Basics

NDT-Destructive Testing is the Synergism of Science and Engineering to create methods of testing that leave the item under test totally undamaged. This means that the component can continue to be used and that the non-destructive Testing method has done no harm. NDT can be used to ensure the quality right from raw material stage through fabrication and processing to pre-service and In-service inspection. Apart from ensuring the structural integrity, quality and reliability of components and plants, today NDT finds extensive applications for condition monitoring, residual life assessment, energy audit etc.