Straight Beam—Single Element
- General purpose, metal parts with simple geometry
- Manual inspection of plate, large forgings, billets, castings
- Smaller models for pipe and tube, tanks, bars, small forgings
- Lamination, delamination• Bond testing
- Thick sections or difficult to penetrate materials
- Flaw or backwall parallel to surface ordetectable with beam normal to surface
- Preferred for penetration of thick sections
- Delay line types improve near surface Resolution
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