Applications

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Marine
• Wind Energy
• Other

The following section lists some of the applications that Wavelength NDT are currently supporting. Over the years we have inspected many different types of structure and have expertise in adapting standard industry inspection techniques for new applications and materials. If you cannot find a direct match to your requirement or require further information, please contact Richard Freemantle to discuss your application in more detail.

Aerospace

Wavelength NDT are experienced in the inspection of aerospace components and structures fabricated in alloys and composite materials. We can offer advice on the suitability of a particular inspection technique or develop new procedures to the client's specification including the following materials and defect types:

Composites

Automotive

We have developed inspection techniques suitable for the inspection of bonded structures in the automotive and related industries. These can be utilised for quality assurance of both structural and non structural adhesive applications including:

• Adhesive placement.
• Bead width measurement.
• Bondline thickness gauging.
• Void detection.
• Bondline porosity detection.

Marine

Through its partnership with Marine Results, Wavelength NDT have worked with yacht and spar designers, manufacturers and race teams/owners. We routinely provide NDT inspection services for production, pre-service and in-service applications on racing yachts, super yachts and motor yachts. We offer inspection techniques for a wide range of metallic and composite structures including:

• Full hull surveys (shearography, acoustic, ultrasonic).
• Yacht mast and boom inspection (acoustic, ultrasonic).
• Rudders and canards/daggerboards (acoustic, ultrasonic).
• Composite repairs (acoustic, ultrasonic).
• Rod rigging and stainless steel inspection (dye penetrant, ultrasonic).
• Keel inspection (ultrasound, dye penetrant).
• Steel hull corrosion mapping (ultrasound).

We offer full inspection of both monolithic and cored laminates and are capable of assessing many types of defects including:

• Skin to core bonding.
• Porosity/void detection.
• Delamination and impact damage mapping.
• Bond inspection (e.g. joggle bond, reinforcements).

Wind energy

Wavelength NDT are experienced in the development of inspection methods and ultrasonic techniques for quality assurance and in-service inspection of composite wind turbine blades including:

Other sectors

Wavelength NDT have also provided inspection services and consultancy to other industry sectors including Rail, Civil Engineering and the Power industry.