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ADVANCED INSPECTION APPLICATIONS

Precision Inspection Across Every Industrial Challenge

Some inspection challenges cannot be resolved with a single technique or a generic service catalogue. Altair Engineering Inspection's Applications portfolio is built for exactly these conditions.

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Inspection Applications

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Level 2 & Level 3 Personnel

2D / 3D

Encoded Mapping Capability

THE RIGHT TECHNIQUE

The Right Technique For Every Inspection Challenge

Every application in this portfolio is addressed with the technique — or combination of techniques — that the specific material, geometry, damage mechanism, and inspection objective actually requires.

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Advanced Inspection Applications

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Flange Face (RF and RTJ) Inspection

The flange sealing face is the pressure boundary at every bolted joint — and its condition directly determines the integrity of that boundary. A raised face (RF) with pitting, radi...

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Pigging Inspection Solutions

A pipeline's most critical defects are the ones that cannot be seen from outside. Internal corrosion, external corrosion beneath coating, mechanical damage, and manufacturing anoma...

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Precision 3D Laser Scanning

Precision 3D laser scanning metrology provides submillimetre dimensional accuracy across components and assemblies that exceed the capability of manual measurement tools or convent...

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3D Laser Inspection — Area Scanning (Digital Twin)

A digital twin is only as accurate as the data it is built from. For complex industrial facilities — process plants, offshore platforms, power stations, and refineries — the gap be...

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Drone Inspection Solutions — External

The cost of access is often the dominant cost in an external inspection programme. Scaffolding, rope access, elevated work platforms, and inspection shutdowns required to enable hu...

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Drone Inspection Solutions — Internal (Confined Space)

Entry into confined spaces is one of the highest-risk activities in industrial inspection. The permit-to-work burden, the standby and rescue requirements, the atmospheric monitorin...

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Acoustic Emission Examination

Acoustic Emission testing is fundamentally different from every other NDT technique in this portfolio — it does not introduce energy into the structure and measure the response. In...

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Long Range UT (Guided Wave Testing)

Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing uses low-frequency ultrasonic waves that propagate along the length of a pipe wall — guided by the pipe geometry — from a single accessible transduce...

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Tank Annular Plate Support (TAPS) Inspection

The annular plate of an above-ground storage tank sits directly on the tank foundation ring — creating a crevice environment at the plate-to-ring interface that traps moisture and...

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Corrosion Under Support (CUPS) Inspection

Pipe supports, saddles, and hangers create a microenvironment that accelerates external corrosion — trapping moisture, debris, and corrosive contaminants between the pipe outer dia...

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HTHA Examination

High-Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) is one of the most serious and least forgiving damage mechanisms in the refining and petrochemical industries. In steel exposed to hydrogen...

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Chevron Cracking Examination

Chevron cracking — also referred to as herringbone or fish-bone cracking — is an internal defect pattern occurring in steel billets, bars, forgings, and seamless pipes produced by...

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HIC Examination

Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) in sour service steel initiates internally — invisible on the surface — growing as planar hydrogen blisters, step cracks, and stress-oriented HIC (S...

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Wet H2S Cracking Examination

Wet hydrogen sulphide (H2S) service environments create a specific and severe cracking risk in carbon and low-alloy steel pressure equipment. The combination of H2S, water, and sus...

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Non-Metallic Composite Material (FRP / GRP) Inspection

Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) and glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) materials are widely used in process industry piping, vessels, tanks, and structural applications — particularly i...

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Non-Metallic (Rubber, Neoprene) Examination

Rubber and neoprene linings and components are used throughout process industry — as corrosion-resistant vessel and pipe linings, as mechanical sealing and cushioning elements, and...

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High Temperature (Up to 550°C) — Thickness & Corrosion Mapping

The fundamental constraint on conventional UT inspection is temperature. Standard piezoelectric transducers and standard couplants have operational limits of approximately 50–60°C...

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T-K-Y Weld Examinations

Tubular T, K, and Y joints are the primary structural connection type in offshore jacket structures, process platform frameworks, and structural tubular steelwork — and among the m...

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Nozzle Weld Examination in Austenitic Steel & Dissimilar Materials

Austenitic stainless steel and dissimilar material nozzle welds combine two of the most demanding inspection challenges in industrial NDT: the complex, varying geometry of a nozzle...

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Nozzle Weld Examination in Alloy and Carbon Steel

The nozzle-to-shell weld is structurally the most complex and inspection-critical joint in any pressure vessel. Its geometry — the intersection of a cylindrical nozzle and a curved...

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Tube Inspection Solutions

Heat exchanger, condenser, boiler, and process tube inspection is not a single technique problem — it is a material selection, access configuration, wall thickness, and inspection...

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EMAT Corrosion Mapping (2D & 3D) Using Robotic Arm

Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) technology generates ultrasonic waves directly within the material using electromagnetic induction — without requiring liquid couplant co...

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UT Corrosion Mapping (2D & 3D) Using Robotic Arm

Corrosion mapping using point-by-point manual UT measurement is slow, coverage-limited, and dependent on operator consistency. It produces a grid of discrete readings across an are...

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Weld Examination in Pipes, Pressure Vessels & Structures — Austenitic & Dissimilar Welds

Austenitic stainless steel and dissimilar metal welds present inspection challenges that are fundamentally different from carbon steel weld inspection — and that cannot be addresse...

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Weld Examination in Pipes, Pressure Vessels & Structures — Alloy & Carbon Steel

Carbon and low-alloy steel welds represent the largest single inspection volume in any industrial NDT programme — and also the application where the capability gap between conventi...

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WHY ALTAIR

Qualified Procedures. Real Asset Experience.

Every application in this portfolio is backed by written procedures, qualified personnel, calibrated equipment, and real project deployment.

Procedure Qualified

Application-specific written procedures and validation.

Level 3 Oversight

PCN Level 3 technical authority across advanced methods.

Advanced Deployment

Robotics, drones, encoded UT, laser scanning and more.

Multi-Sector Experience

Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Power, Offshore and Infrastructure.