TESTING LABORATORIES
Non Destructive Test
Preventive and maintenance non-destructive tests for integrity checks on :
- Production components (cast, forged, and press-formed pieces, blanks and finished products, tanks, gas bottles, pipes, pipelines, etc.)
- Complex systems and plants (assembly, pipelines, water and gas supply systems, steel structures works, energy generation plants, products, etc.)
Methods Performed
- Direct and remote visual test (VT)
- Penetrant test (PT)
- Magnetic particle test (MT)
- Eddy current test (ET)
- Ultrasonic test (UT)
- Radiography and/or radioscopy test (RT)
- TOFD and PHASED ARRAY test
- Ultrasonic immersion technique
- Industrial Tomography
Tests on Metallic Products
Non Destructive Test
All AQM operating staff is qualified Level 2 and work under the supervision of Level 3 personnel according to UNI EN ISO 9712 and/or ASNT – SNT – TC – 1A.
Operating staff hold all the main licences for work overhead, in restricted spaces, for driving ride-on trucks and for the use of stabilised and unstabilised elevator platforms.
Other services:
- radiometric measurements (ionising radiation emissions) and emission mapping
- thermography and vibrational analyses
- measurement of noise emissions in indoor environments (indoor phonometry)
- training courses in non-destructive tests (see Training section)
- measurements of stresses and tensional states using the strain gauge method
- micrographic tests by replication or “on site” with a portable microscope
- hardness tests using portable instruments
- chemical analysis with portable testers.