One such problem is weakness in welds that hold a pipeline together, which federal investigators said last week was one of the factors they were examining in the Sept. 9 explosion in San Bruno ...

Whether through visual inspection, radiography, ultrasonic testing, or a combination of all three, coal silo failures hopefully will become a thing of the past. 3.

Remote inspection technologies will be applied to six Class surveys for this trial, to test how they can then be used to verify the required survey or inspection by ABS Surveyors to optimize ...

Wabtec Corp. has officially acquired a Boston-based company’s safety technology division for $1.78 billion.

This inspection of pipelines could range from visual inspection to non-destructive testing. Non-destructive testing (NDT) includes a variety of analysis techniques to assess the properties of the ...

A mainstay girth weld inspection solution for over a decade, the PipeWIZARD™ iX automated ultrasonic testing (AUT) system has been optimized to redefine pipeline weld joint assessments.