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Ultrasonic Contact Probes

Product catalog summary
Overview
Krautkrämer ultrasonic transducers are engineered for flaw detection and sizing, ensuring quality from requirement analysis to delivery and support. The company focuses on matching probes to specific inspection applications to meet customer needs.

Quality Assurance Process
  • Requirement Analysis: Integrates quality into the requirement analysis process using extensive experience.
  • Specifications: Follows strict specifications to ensure quality results.
  • Simulation: Uses advanced simulation technology to meet application requirements and understand boundaries.
  • Feasibility Studies: Determines the best inspection methods and technologies.
  • Material Selection and Processing: Sources raw materials to high standards and controls manufacturing to ISO standards.
  • Prototyping and Product Validation: Offers prototyping and rigorous build-and-test procedures for validation.
  • Manufacturing and Delivery: Ensures exceptional product availability with local manufacturing variations.
  • Support: Provides expert resources for inspection challenges and a one-year warranty.

Transducer Types and Applications
  • Contact Transducers: Suitable for regular geometry and smooth surfaces, available in straight and angle beam types.
  • Immersion Transducers: Ideal for irregular geometries, used in mechanized or automated testing, and can be focused for improved results.

Transducer Selection Criteria
  • European Standards: Provides technical and performance information based on specific definitions.
  • North American Standards: Offers three performance ranges: Alpha, Benchmark, and Gamma Series, each with distinct features and applications.

Accessories and Custom Configurations
  • Includes cables, adapters, couplants, calibration blocks, and transducer kits.
  • Custom configurations available by special order.

Conclusion
Krautkrämer ultrasonic transducers are synonymous with quality, offering consistent readings, competitive pricing, and timely delivery, backed by a 70-year history of excellence.

Specifications
Details specifications for immersion transducers, including European and North American standards, element diameters, frequencies, and focal lengths. Tables provide focal lengths for different frequencies and element sizes.

Procedures
Includes procedures for selecting the appropriate transducer based on application needs, such as focal length and frequency requirements. Discusses the use of calibration blocks for setup and evaluation.

Standards
Highlights European and North American standards for immersion transducers, with specific models and configurations listed. References ISO standards for calibration blocks.

Recommendations
Provides recommendations for selecting transducers based on application, such as high sensitivity for small to mid-size objects or shock wave transducers for high-resolution applications.

Accessories
Comprehensive list of cables, adapters, and couplants, detailing order codes, lengths, and compatibility. Includes specialty couplants for high-temperature applications.

Applications
Describes applications for transducers, including weld inspection, composite material inspection, and high-temperature testing. Highlights phased array transducers for scanning and wide area coverage in various industries.

Key Features
Features of phased array transducers include electronic control of beam angle, focus, and scanning index, enhancing sensitivity and reducing inspection times. Emphasizes benefits of replaceable angle beam wedges and delay lines.

Calibration Blocks and Specifications
Details various calibration blocks for specific testing purposes, including angle beam transducer resolution and thickness calibration.

Transducer Certification
Transducers undergo rigorous quality tests to ensure reliability, with certificates providing detailed calibration data.

Material Properties
Lists longitudinal and shear velocities, acoustic impedance, and other properties of various materials.

Useful Formulas and Charts
Provides formulas for calculating near field length, beam spread, Snell’s law, and other parameters, along with a dB vs. amplitude ratio chart.

Baker Hughes Sensing and Inspection Technologies
Offers a range of inspection technologies across industries, including aerospace, oil and gas, and automotive.

Global Application Centers and Services
With 11 application centers worldwide, Baker Hughes offers custom transducer designs and problem-solving services, along with extensive product support.

Contact Information
Lists regional offices for Europe, America, and Asia, with contact details for each location.
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Catalog excerpts

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Krautkrämer ultrasonic transducers For flaw detection and sizing

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Our core ability is to match ultrasonic probes to the inspection applications of today, both simple and complex. This skill lets allows us to design and manufacture fine-tuned quality probes that meet your customer-specific requirements. We build quality into every step we perform—from start to finish: • Requirement analysis At the very beginning of our discussions with you, we draw on our experience manufacturing more than 1 million probes—including 14,000 probe variations—to build quality into our requirement analysis process. • Specifications. To help ensure quality results, each product in...

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General information-contact inspection and immersion methods Transducer selection criteria-european standards Transducer selection criteria-north american standards 08 Contact transducers Straight beam contact transducers, protective face Straight beam contact transducers, wear resistant Straight beam contact transducers, delay line Straight beam contact transducers, dual element Angle beam transducers—large sizes Angle beam transducers—small sizes Angle beam transducers-dual element 33 Immersion transducers European North American 38 Transducers for specific applications Special application...

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Transducer selection criteria and performance General information The ultrasonic transducers in this catalog are divided into two general categories, Contact and Immersion. Transducers for the contact inspection method Straight beam—single element • arts with regular geometry and P relatively smooth contact surface • Flat or curved contact surface • law or backwall parallel to F surface or detectable with beam normal to surface • referred for penetration of P thick sections • elay line types improve near D surface resolution • equires couplant layer, typically a R gel, oil, or paste • Typically...

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Transducer selection criteria— European standards For transducers manufactured to European standards, technical and performance information is provided throughout this catalog based on the definitions below. A comprehensive data sheet is supplied with most flaw detection transducers at no charge. Description Explanation Diameter D or length x width a x b of the transducer element. The size of the element strongly affects the shape Element size D or a x b of the transmitted sound field. Slight deviations, (e.g., imperfect shape or positions with reduced radiation due

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Transducer selection criteria— North American standards For transducers manufactured to North American standards, Baker Hughes Inspection Technologies offers three performance ranges: Alpha, Benchmark, and Gamma Series. Waveform and frequency certification, per ASTM E-1065, are supplied with all flaw detection transducers at no charge. Alpha series features Real time Gamma series features • Recommended for applications where resolution is the primary consideration. • Suitable for applications such as thickness measurement and near-surface flaw detection. • Very short pulse—mechanically damped...

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Contact transducers Straight beam contact transducers, protective face General purpose, larger parts with simple geometry Forgings, billets Plates, bars, square profiles Containers, machine components, shells Inspection at high temperature with delay line European models have replaceable membrane: – Improves coupling on uneven or curved surface – Extends transducer life. – Suitable for DGS flaw sizing method – High temperature delay lines also available – Lemo 1 (B..S) or Lemo 00 (MB..S) connector, side mount standard, top mount optional North American models can be used with three types of protective...

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Description Type Remark Delay line or delay wedges Special order Custom configurations are available by special order. For explanations to the table data, refer to selection criteria on pages 5 through 7. e.g., for testing at high temperatures.

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Order code Transducer element 0 .5 in .75 in 1.00 in mm) delay Style PM Kit includes a knurled ring, gland nut, wrench, 12 membranes, and a 2 oz. bottle of couplant (transducer not included). Style PWC Kit includes a knurled ring, three wear caps, and a 2 oz. bottle of couplant (transducer not included). This option may not be usable if near surface resolution is critical. Style PHTD Kit includes a knurled ring, high temperature delay line, and a 2 oz. bottle of couplant (transducer not included). pkg. of 12 pcs. Spare wear caps 118-240-123 118-240-122 118-240-121 Membrane, wear cap and delay...

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Applications • 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 Features and benefits • Permanent, abrasion-resistant wear plate • Best match to metals • Higher gain reserve than protective face models • Fingertip models for access to tight spaces • Comfortable grip • European models have side mounted Lemo 00 connectors, side mounted Microdot on K..K and G..K types. • North...

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Description Type Remark Custom configurations are available by special order. For explanations to the table data, refer to selection criteria on pages 5 through 7.

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Type Order code Accessories Notes Description Type Remark Custom configurations are available by special order. For explanations to the table data, refer to selection criteria on pages 5 through 7.

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Standard contact transducers—type RHP-CR (side mount BNC), RHP-CS (top mount BNC) Custom configurations are available by special order. Fingertip contact transducers—type F Order code Order code Alpha series Custom configurations are available by special order.

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Applications • Thickness measurement • Near surface flaw detection • Inspection of thin sections • Curved parts, tubing, pipe • Composites and plastics • Turbine blades Features and benefits • Excellent near surface resolution. • Replaceable delay line-long life and versatility. • Higher frequencies improve resolution and small flaw detectability. • All models have side mounted Microdot connector.

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.