SONOAIR® R&D for non-contact ultrasonic testing
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Inspection System For Non-Contact Ultrasonic Testing Nondestructive Testing

SONOAIR ® Components Electronics, Software, Probes & Scanner Technology Leader Strong partner for research, development, training and education 1 Air-coupled Probes Max. resolution and highest sensitivity due to state of the art SONOTEC piezo-composite technology incl. element focusing 4 5 SONOWARE Laboratory friendly software for basic measurement and advanced analysis capabilities Up to 4 transmitter and receiver channels with freely configurable square-wave burst pulser and low-noise pre-amplifiers High End Laboratory Electronics High performance pulserreceiver system

The Principle of Air-coupled Ultrasonic Testing Incoming Sound Wave Incoming Sound Wave Incoming Sound Wave Considering modern developments in terms of light weight construction, climate change, renewable energies, cost efficiency and additive manufacturing non-contact air-coupled ultrasonic testing is rapidly gaining more importance again. Due to their material or production dependent characteristics many test objects cannot be exposed to liquid couplant because they would macerate, delaminate, corrode or be destroyed in a different way. Even existing liquid coupled inspection systems...

Application Samples (C-Scans) SONOAIR R&D provides the flexibility to display measurement results via A-, C- or D-scans. In addition, the raw data is available for post-processing. The below C-scans represent a combined color-coded image consisting of the maximum amplitudes of each individual measurement point (A-scans). The smallest detectable defect size and the level of ultrasound conductivity highly depend on the material characteristics, the expected defect type, the test frequency, the measurement resolution and the scanning speed. The sample scans have been recorded with a resolution...

SONOWARE Basic and Advanced Software The SONOWARE inspection software for air-coupled ultrasonic testing was designed especially for the use in laboratories and offline production environments. SONOWARE Basic is ideal for the fast inspection of test samples. The intuitive user interface enables the user to quickly parametrize the SONOAIR hardware, perform the measurement and evaluate the results. SONOWARE Advanced is the perfect software to develop new test and evaluation methods. The complete raw data is available in a binary format. In addition, an extensive tool box of filters and...

Technical Data General Data Scanner (Standard) PC with Windows operating system and software; 14-bits digitizer, 100 MS/s; Ultrasonic pulser unit; Ultrasonic receiver unit 500 mm × 500 mm × 160 mm (Other scanners on request) Positioning Accuracy Ambient Temperature Scan Increment Network Interface SONOWARE Basic Protection Class Intuitive and clear graphical user interface Separate windows for hardware parametrization (transmitter, receiver, scanner) Customizable screen layout Repositioning of the gates after the measurement Display of the measurement results as A-, B-, or D-Scan Pulse...