- Engineering & Technology
(+34) 946 430 850 (International calls)
A facility for developing ultrasonic devices and systems for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). Its capabilities include defect and damage detection, physical parameter measurement and non-invasive characterization of metallic materials and composite structures.
The facility covers the entire process, from electronics and instrumentation development and transducer design to the execution of inspection campaigns and advanced signal analysis.
Equipment
- OMICRON LAB BODE 100 frequency scanning impedance meter
- Single-channel ultrasonic pulsers/receivers Olympus EPOCH 600 and Dasel ULTRASCOPE IMAGE (300 kHz – 30 kHz).
- Multi-channel ultrasonic pulser/receiver for phased array: Omniscan MX.
- ULTRATEK PCIUT3100M ultrasonic multi-channel electronic board for generating and capturing signals. High voltage wave train transmitter and receiver, which can be reconfigured and programmed.
- Onda Corporation “Acoustic Intensity Measurement System” (AIMS): ultrasonic immersion tank scanning system and ultrasonic radiation field measurement.
- Ultrasonic Single element, dual element and array transducers (Olympus, GE, Imasonic and developed in-house) from 250 kHz to 20 MHz.
- TTI TG550 5 MHz precision function generator
- Agilent Technologies 33250A 80MHz programmable function / arbitrary waveform generator.
- Digital oscilloscopes:
- Tektronix TDS1012 100 MHz, 2-channel oscilloscope with TEKTRONIX TDS2MEM PC expansion module.
- Agilent Technologies DSO5012A, 100 MHz, 2-channel oscilloscope.
- Agilent Technologies DSO7014B, 100 MHz, 4-channel oscilloscope. - Fluke 189 Digital Multimeter-Data Logger System with PC connection software FVF-SC2.
- TTI EX354T 300W triple power supply.
- BERTAN 105 high voltage source, for the polarisation of piezoelectric materials.
- Development and validation of ultrasonic NDT/SHM solutions
- Transducer design and characterization
- Inspection and monitoring campaigns on materials and structures
- Defect and damage detection and sizing
- Advanced signal processing and interpretation algorithms
- Technical consultancy and technology transfer to prototypes and systems
Aimed at:
- Companies manufacturing all types of mechanical parts and structures that are interested in improving the quality of their products.
- Companies or entities that maintain critical or high performance infrastructures that want to improve the assurance, control and monitoring of the useful life of these infrastructures.
- Manufacturing companies that want to monitor the quality of their products.
- Inspection companies that use NDTs manufacturers of detection equipment who want to innovate their products.
TECNALIA
Alava Science and Technology Park, Leonardo Da Vinci, 11, E-01510, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Araba/Álava)
Characterization and Inspection:
- Metrology and Inspection Technologies
- Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Application sectors
- Aerospace
- Aeronautics and space
- Food and beverages
- Automotive
- Capital goods and industrial equipment
- Pharmaceuticals and genetics
- Railways
- Foundries and steelmaking
- Chemical industry
- Chemical and petroleum industries
Industry plan
- HAZI · Aerospace
- HAZI · Biosanitary sector
- IRABAZI · Automotive components
- IRABAZI · Advanced manufacturing
- IRABAZI · Metallurgy
