摘要:
A special angle beam probe for ultrasonic testing includes at least one ultrasonic vibrator fastened in a beam probe housing on a wedge-shaped support body which may be formed of Plexiglass, using damping means. The ultrasonic beam of the vibrator strikes the surface of the test piece at an incidence angle other than 0.degree., as measured from a perpendicular at the surface of the test piece at the point where the beam strikes. The ultrasonic beam furthermore strikes the test piece surface at an oblique angle between 0.degree. and 360.degree. subtended between a principal beam probe axis and the beam, as seen in the direction perpendicular to the beam probe from above. The novelty of the invention is that the special angle beam probe includes a multiplicity of prefabricated beam probe subassemblies. The ultrasonic vibrator of each subassembly is fastened with a predetermined incidence angle within a first beam probe housing. A second beam probe housing contains the test head subassembly and the test head subassembly can be fastened at least at one predetermined oblique angle within the second housing for forming the overall special angle beam probe. In this way a multiplicity of beam probe subassemblies with the same insonification angle form special angle beam probes with different, predetermined oblique angles, by assembling the subassemblies in second test head housings in different oblique angle relationships.
摘要:
A method for the ultrasonic testing of disc bodies, shrunk onto shafts, is especially adapted for testing the shrink-fitted seats thereof adjoining the shafts and usually is provided with anti-rotation holes containing anti-rotation inserts. Such disc body arrangements are often used in the field of low pressure turbine rotor disc fastenings. The method is carried out by using ultrasonic angle beam probes operating according to a method of corner reflection or transversal waves within the range of critical angles of total reflection, or according to a method of grazing incidence. Both methods can be used as a pulse echo technique, or as a tandem technique. The probes are coupled to the curved side walls of the discs for following test patterns extending in circumferential direction of the disc bodies. Ultrasonic sound beams emanating from the probes are aligned toward the test regions of the inner surfaces of the hubs. Three axially adjacent test regions are tested. The outer regions are tested with the angle beam probes according to the principle of the pulse echo technique, whereas the central test region is tested according to the principle of the tandem technique with at least two of the angle beam probes, by transmitting with one of the probes on one of the side walls and receiving with another one of the probes on the opposite side wall of the wheel discs. The invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method.