INTRODUCTION TO THE TELETEST FOCUS + SYSTEM

ASHLEY JOLLEY
Current Guided Wave Systems
There are currently 4 main guided wave systems in todays market

MssR®3030R
Teletest Focus +

Wavemaker G4 UltraWave LRT

Structure of the Teletest Focus + System

Teletest Focus + Flaw

detector

Collar

8 Way tool lead

Laptop PC
Air-hose
Equipment

The Teletest Focus + system has three principle components:

Teletest pulser/receiver
unit
Ruggedised Laptop PC
Inflatable Collar
Housing modules each containing 5 or 3 rings of
piezoelectric transducers
Teletest Focus + Unit

Integral Battery
10 hours site operation (typical)
Integral air pump
LED display
Splash proof ruck sack type carry bag
Laptop PC

The functions of the Laptop PC are:

Control of the Teletest Instrument

Process of the test data
Display of the tests results
Storage of the test data and results
Generation of word document reports
Mini-Test Tooling – 2”,3” & 4” diameter

Small diameter pipes

Normally Torsional wave mode only
Ideal for racked pipes with limited
access due to low profile design
 Transducer Collars 6” – 24” diameter

Integrated collars for standard

ASME pipe sizes
Collar Link up – 24”<

Teletest pipe sizes above 24” diameter will require two standard collars to be
linked together.
Teletest Focus Collars
Modules and Transducer Numbers Required for Different Pipe Sizes and
Collar Combinations for Larger Pipes

Pipe Collar 2 No. of No. of Collar

Collar 1 Size
Size Size Modules Transducers Rollers

2" 2" Mini-Module 8 24

3" 3" Mini-Module 12 36
4" 4" Mini-Module 16 48
5" 5" Mini-Module 20 60
6" 6" Mini-Module 24 72
6" 6" 24 120
8" 8" 24 120
10" 10" 32 160
12" 12" 32 160
14" 14" 40 200
16" 16" 40 200
18" 18" 48 240
20" 20" 48 240
22" 22" 56 280
24" 24" 56 280
26" 10" 10" 60 300 4
28" 10" 12" 60 300 4
30" 12'' 14'' 68 340 4
32" 12'' 16'' 68 340 4
34" 14" 16" 76 380 4
36" 14'' 18'' 84 420 4
38" 16'' 18'' 84 420 4
40" 14'' 22'' 92 460 4
42" 18'' 20'' 92 460 4
44" 20 20 92 460 4
46" 20 22 100 500 4
48" 20'' 24'' 100 500 4
50 22'' 24'' 108 540 4
52 24'' 24'' 108 540 4
Mini Test Modules
Multimode modules
Torsional only modules

Two transducer ring spacing arrangements of 30mm and 45mm

What is a Transducer?

A transducer is a means of converting one form of

energy into another.
A thin disc or rectangle of Piezoelectric material
mounted in a probe can achieve this.
Unlike conventional UT Guided Wave UT employs
Piezoelectric elements which vibrate parallel to
the pipe surface to introduce a shear motion.
Transducer Elements

CROSS SECTION OF TELETEST TRANSDUCER

Transducer Elements

Shear displacement along the length of the element

Ceramic wear plate

Curie temperature ~180°C

Operating temperature:

0 < t < 120°C

Why is the equipment like this?

Why are there so many transducers around the

circumference?
Required to suppress:
• Generation of flexural wave modes.
• Generation of circumferentially propagating wave modes.
Why is the equipment like this?

Why are the transducers divided into 8 circumferential segments?

Flexural wave modes have a variation in their particle displacement pattern around the circumference

In order to analyse flexural modes, measurements at many circumferential positions are required

Focusing requires flexural wave modes to be transmitted, which also requires circumferential resolution in the array

Why only 8?

Engineering! Lots of transmit/receive channels requires equipment which is:

Heavy, costly, complex……
Why is the equipment like this?

Why are there so many rings of transducers?

There are two objectives:
1. Transmit and receive sound in the form of a single axi-symmetric wave mode
2. Transmit and receive sound in one axial direction

Torsional:
1. Only one torsional axi symmetric mode at our operating frequencies T(0,1), so this is easy here
2. Two phased rings can be used to control direction
Why is the equipment like this?

Why are there so many rings of transducers?

There are two objectives:
1. Transmit and receive sound in the form of a single axi-symmetric wave mode

2. Transmit and receive sound in one axial direction

Longitudinal:
1. Two longitudinal wave modes are present (L(0,1) and L(0,2)). L(0,2) is less dispersive and so more favourable. 2 rings spaced by the L(0,1) wavelength
transmitting opposite signals will transmit L(0,2) in both directions but completely suppress L(0,1) in transmission.

2. In order to control direction of L(0,2) AND suppress L(0,1), a third ring is required
Why is the equipment like this?

Why are the transducers aligned as they are?

A wave will be best generated by a displacement motion applied in a manner

which mimics the displacement pattern of that particular wave mode