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Advances in Accuracy of Defect Imaging Achieved
01 May 2005
TWI has invested in the latest computed X-ray tomography (CT) equipment to allow rapid threedimensional imaging of defective components. The accuracy with which defects can be sized and positioned makes this equipment a major advance for such applications as turbine engine blade inspection, castings, PCB boards and many more.
Based in the TWI Wales facility at Port Talbot, the £500k unit scans around an object taking images from slightly different positions. It is housed in a specially constructed cell with a turntable capable of handling components up to 125kg in weight.
The fully automated system has a 1000 x 1000 pixel imaging camera for real time digital radiography and an X-ray source able to penetrate 110mm thick steel and aluminium up to 300mm thick. Real time digital X-ray takes only seconds to create each image so the full tomography of any item is completed in 40 minutes - roughly the time taken to achieve a single shot with conventional film radiography.
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