Teletest is a long-range ultrasonic or Guided Wave NDT Technique developed for detecting metal loss in pipe-work.
It is a pulse-echo system aimed at testing large
volumes of material from a single test point. Its initial application was for detecting corrosion under insulation in petrochemical plant pipe-work, but it has found widespread use in other inspection situations where pipes or tubes are not accessible, for example where they are buried, encased in a sleeve or elevated above the ground. Location of the tool on the caisson Recently Plant Integrity was called to trial Teletest to inspect caissons, on an offshore installation. Access to these caissons is difficult and Teletest has the ability to inspect the whole length of the Caisson from the top-side.
DAC curve for the caisson
From the results it was possible to see the end of the
caisson at 65m. This indicated that the caisson was in reasonable condition. There was found to be an increased area of corrosion at between 32 and 35m from the datum that corresponds with the splash- zone. Typical offshore installation The A-map was used to visually illustrate the The aim of the inspection was to test the full length of corrosion along the caisson and the corresponding the caisson in order to gain an understanding of the map to the above trace is given at the bottom of the condition prior to removal. This also allowed Plant page.This A-map can be carried out instantaneously Integrity to trial new analysis techniques such as within the software for all frequencies providing focusing and the new Amplitude Map (A-Map). valuable information about circumferential extent to the operator. In this example, this showed that that Teletest Focus uses the MultimodeTM system which the worst area of corrosion is at the splash-zone allowed the inspection of this Caisson using both however the level of corrosion was within acceptable torsional and longitudinal wavemodes. limits.
However, due to the wall thickness of the caisson,
torsional was the optimum on this occasion.
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