Hello everybody,

: Please I need a help concerning the Porosity on TOFD inspection. I couldn't find a
specific criteria for porosity cluster. Can anybody help me?
: Thanx!
: Paulo

Paulo:
Acceptance criteria will depend on the Code you work to. Unfortunately too many codes
are still trying to make ultrasonic results look like radiography. If you can, with great
certainty, declare that a TOFD indication obtained from a single line scan (D-scan) is a
cluster of porosity, then your assessment skills and confidence is greater than mine.
An upper "tip" signal will be possible with a cluster of pores (it is likely to look like an
irregular set of arrival times). The lower boundary of the indication from such a flaw will
be VERY difficult to determine. Inter-pore scatter will generate several paths that will be
unresolvable from the diffraction off the lowest portion of the flaw.

It is permissable in some Codes to assess pores as if they were planar flaws then a length
needs to be determined.

Ed

Ed,
First of all, thanks for your help.
So, what you are saying is that is quite impossible to assess porosity using only TOFD
method? Cause it's impossible to know the correct position of the flaw on the scan axis,
we just know the depth!
Thanks

Paulo

Hi, I am a TOFD expert, I have inspected 20km weld with TOFD method. I have seen
many clusters of porosity in a weld. The only thing you should do is to measure the
distance between the porosities and to look up their homogenities.
mustafa GONULAL