Sectors of application
Nuclear industry / Mechanical, aeronautics and transport industries / Oil industry
Your challenges
- To assess the performance of ultrasonic non-destructive testing on a metallic component with a complex structure
- To link the microstructural characteristics and the test performance
- To model ultrasonic tests based on a detailed characterisation of the structure
- To implement advanced experimental techniques
Our strengths
Understanding of the physical phenomena of ultrasonic testing- Support in the qualification of ultrasonic testing processes for the nuclear industry
- Implementation of leading ultrasonic non-destructive testing software, which has been qualified in the nuclear field
- Expertise in the field of the impact of the metallurgical structure on test performances
- Metallurgical assessment and structure characterisation resources available
- Development of innovative testing techniques
- (Metallic) materials database for modelling
Our offer
- Test campaign on representative models
- Test modelling study with advanced software
- Characterisation of the material data essential to the modelling of ultrasonic testing, based on the analysis resources available in our metallurgical assessment laboratory
- Development of experimental and digital study programmes, implementing the methodology developed at EDF R&D
Use case examples
ONET: Simulation of thickness loss tests under pipe retainers
The Welding Institute UK Simulation of ultrasonic tests on austenitic stainless steel welds
DCNS/EXTENDE/French Atomic Energy Agency: Collaboration in the context of the ANR MOSAICS project to approve simulation codes for the testing of austenitic stainless steel welds
