Tungsten for Non-Destructive Testing

Tungsten for Non-Destructive Testing

Industrial radiography uses gamma radiation to detect structural faults in materials such as metal and concrete. As with pipeline inspection, the equipment uses tungsten shielding for non-destructive testing, which is coupled with tungsten collimator. Thickness, density and level gauging radioactive sources are used in industrial processes to measure thickness, density or levels of materials during production e.g. paper, plastic film, steel sheet or surface coatings. The material passes between a radioactive source, which is housed in tungsten alloy, and a detector. The strength of the detector signal is used to measure the thickness, density or level of the material. 

Tungsten alloy instrument is suitable for radiation protection, as its combination of radiographic density (more than 60% denser than lead), machinability, good corrosion resistance, high radiation absorption (superior to lead), simplified life cycle and high tensile strength. The tungsten alloy instrument used in the non-destructive testing can be radiation shielding against gamma radiation and X-rays that are used during the non-destructive testing. We provides all kinds of tungsten alloy instruments.