Solutions, Analysis, and
Innovation are the key-words
that define Victor Technologies, LLC (VTL), a company that was formed
in 1998 to further develop and market
VIC-3D®,
a unique software product for eddy-current nondestructive evaluation
(NDE). The
VTL senior staff has an extensive
background in engineering analysis and computer modeling, and in recent
years has done some very innovative work in signal-processing and
modeling in the field of NDE using eddy-current technology.
The heart of VTL's technology is its eddy-current analysis software, VIC-3D®. This software is based on Harold
Sabbagh's research into computational electromagnetics and computational
inversion algorithms, for which he was recently elected to the grade of FELLOW
of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. This effort has been supported
by the Departments of Defense and Energy, and the National Science Foundation through the Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and by commercial sources,
including General Electric, Hercules Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, United Technologies
Research Center, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). VIC-3D® is being sold worldwide as a research and
commercial modeling tool to help laboratories and industry design probes and
understand probe signals, to replace calibration standards for characterizing flaws,
and to characterize materials.
