Film radiography is often used for welding inspection in offshore and onshore pipe laying, and for checking the reliability of defect detection using ultrasonic testing. However, it can be slow and ...

French technology-based tracking solutions company Beweis has developed an RFID-enabled system for verifying that pipes have been properly welded at nuclear power plants and petrochemical facilities, ...

For decades PG&E racked up a pile of internal reports about weld failures and other problems on a natural gas line right next to the San Bruno pipe that ruptured along a shoddy weld in a catastrophic ...