In this work, radiography was employed as the NDT technique for detection of flaws in circumferential girth welds of steel pipelines used in offshore installations in the petroleum industry. The kind of defect specifically focused was lack of fusion. It is currently accepted in the literature that radiography is not as sensitive as ultrasonics to detect lack of fusion defects. Unfortunately, the radiographic inspection can barely detect lack of fusion and only when it is associated to inclusions and voids of considerable size. However, in a previous article ('Reliability of radiographic inspection of steel pipeline girth welds', QNDE Conference, 2007), the authors showed that it is possible to detect lack of fusion defects if, in the radiographic tests, the angle of incidence is the same angle that the weld bevel makes with the test piece surface, which means lowering the angle of disorientation between the flaw and the radiographic beam. However, no concerns were made to sizing the defects. Computational simulation was used with XRSIM software to establish the optimal radiographic parameters to reach the lower limit for detection for this kind of defect.


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    Titel :

    Detection of lack of fusion weld defects by radiography


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Nachweis von Schweißbindefehlern mittels Radiographie


    Beteiligte:
    Souza, M.P. (Autor:in) / Almeida, R.M. (Autor:in) / Rebello, J.M.A. (Autor:in) / Soares, S.D. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008


    Format / Umfang :

    8 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 11 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Datenträger


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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