Published May 1993 | Version v1
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Ultrasonic technique for inspection of GPHS capsule girth weld integrity

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Description

An innovative nondestructive examination (NDE) technique for the inspection of integrity of General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) capsule girth welds (Figure 1) was developed employing a Lamb (plate) wave as the mode of the sound propagation. Reliability of the Lamb wave technique was tested on GPHS capsules using plutonium pallet simulators. All ten capsules, which were previously rejected, passed ultrasonic (UT) inspection using the Lamb wave technique

Availability note (English)

MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from OSTI as DE93040072; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
18 p.
Report number
WSRC-TR--93-299

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
25010024
Subject category
S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; S30: DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION;
Descriptors DEI
INSPECTION; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; STANDARDS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WELDED JOINTS
Descriptors DEC
ACOUSTIC TESTING; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS; JOINTS; MATERIALS TESTING; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; TESTING; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC09-89SR18035
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).