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Rapidscan 2
Designed for speed, portability, and performance, the RapidScan 2 has been developed as a versatile and user-friendly A, B and C-scan inspection instrument. Immersion quality A-Scan data can be recorded very quickly using Sonatest's rubber coupled array sensors and transducers. Common application areas are: the inspection of metal and carbon fibre composite structures, detecting defects such as delaminations, cracks, flaws, corrosion, porosity, foreign material and bond integrity.
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Rapidscan 2 Overview
The system includes a 128-channel multiplexing pulser/receiver module; state of-the-art data capture electronics and a standard PC laptop, housed in a low-profile rugged plastic enclosure. The instrument operates through a user-friendly Windows based interface.
Powerful gating and evaluation tools ensure that the ultrasonic signals can be analysed and interpreted to the fullest extent. RapidScan 2 operates in pulse-echo mode suitable for inspecting medium to large areas. The high resolution C-scans show time of flight and amplitude data, simultaneously displaying both A and B-scans live.
RapidScan 2 has been successfully employed for inspecting a range of materials and structures. A simple parallel may be drawn to conventional A-scan inspections; if a part can be inspected with a ¼”, single element transducer then it can often be inspected using RapidScan 2. Exceptions to this rule are compound curves, complex geometry and parts with restricted access.
Rapidscan 2 Specification
General
- Universal power supply (110-240v)
- Dimensions: 520 x 375 x 210mm (W x D x H)
Application Software
- Simultaneous live A, B, C-scan
- Simultaneous capture of multiple C-scans
- Large area mapping capability.
- Powerful post processing capability using full waveform capture.
Rectification
- RF, Full Wave, Half Wave Positive, Half Wave Negative
- High frame rate B-scan display (>200 Hz typical)
- Up to 6 gates with multiple peak detection, triggering and measurement.
Evaluation tools for data analysis
- Line, Rectangle, Circle, Ellipse, Polygon tools
Histogram Analysis
- Min, Max, Mean, Std. Dev.
Pulser
- Pulser type: Negative square wave
- Pulser amplitude: -70 V<
- Pulse Width: 25ns to 250 ns, adjustable in 0.5ns steps
- Max prf: 100 kHz
- Active Channels: 32
- Max no. of Channels: 128
Receiver
- System Bandwidth: 1 MHz to 22 MHz
- Receiver gain: 80 dB
- TCG: No. of points: 16
- Amplitude Resolution: 0.3dB
- Time resolution: 10ns
- Total correction: 80 db<
- Slope range: 0-40dB/µs
Rapidscan 2 Accessories
Ultrasonic Array
- Centre freq.: 2, 5, 10 MHz
- Bandwidth: >60% (-6dB)
- Element pitch: 0.8mm
- Active Array width: 50mm
- No. of elements: 64
- Aperture: 8, 16, 24 and 32 channel beam formation supported
- Max cable length: 10m @ 5MHz
- Connector: Cannon ZIF 260 pins
Wheel Probe
- Water filled low attenuation rubber tyre
- Rotary quadrature encoder for positional information.
- Spring loaded buggy for fast scanning.
