Ambica Steels Ltd recently invested in a state of the art, fully automatic ultrasonic testing line from Bluestar Engineering & Electronics.
The new line is important for Ambica as in future it can be upgraded to include Eddy Current Testing. The machine can cover Ambica’s complete range of bar sizes i.e., 16 mm to 105mm and bar lengths of 3m to 7m. The setup is suitable to test pure stainless steel or alloy steel material.
The sensitivity of the ultrasonic testing is 0.7 mm FBH for bar diameter up to 30 mm and 1.2 mm FBH for bar diameters of 30 mm to 105 mm. Similarly, it is 0.8 mm × 15 mm for the SDH method making it very high precision.
The machine is also very quick. The cycle time for inspection of a complete bar of length 7 m, by both FBH and SDH methods is less than 300 seconds.
