A
powerful tool for computer simulation in the NDE industry Imagine being able to simulate a complete NDE test right on your
computer. Now you can! VIC-3D® is the first commercially available
software for advanced NDE analysis. VIC-3D® constructs a model of your NDE probe, test
sample, and flaw. Using this model, VIC-3D® predicts probe signals
for the NDE inspections you describe.
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Who Needs VIC-3D®?
Join the growing list of companies
that are applying VIC-3D® in industries as diverse as nuclear power,
aerospace, and materials processing.
With VIC-3D's features, NDE tests can
be quickly modeled, and results are clearly presented in tabular and
graphic form. With the power of computer simulation, VIC-3D®
advances NDE technology by opening up a whole new world of analysis
tools. If you would like to:
- Better understand your probe signals
- Establish calibration standards
- Eliminate the cost of calibration standards
- Design inspection procedures
- Validate inspections
- Demonstrate inspection performance
- Design your own probes
- Reduce training time and cost
then VIC-3D® can help you.
Why is VIC-3D® the leader in NDE Simulation Software?
- VIC-3D® is easy to use
- Just give VIC-3D® a description of the measurement you wish
to model by selecting from VIC-3D®'s menu items and entering the
appropriate values for probe geometry, material conductivity, etc.
That's all -- because unlike other software, VIC-3D® requires no
complicated meshes.
- VIC-3D® is fast and accurate
- VIC-3D® uses leading-edge mathematical techniques and an
innovative volume-integral formulation to achieve accuracies
unobtainable by other software and which has been validated
against international benchmark problems. This advanced theory and technical approach permits
results to be computed very rapidly and with little computer memory,
even on commodity PC's.
- VIC-3D® is versatile
- VIC-3D® will model absolute and differential probes, rotated
and non-circular coils, even probes with ferrite cores and encasements.
It can model layered materials with planar and tubular geometries. It
can model cracks as well as flaws due to manufacturing defects,
corrosion, pitting, or other destructive processes. Its simple-to-use
modeling primitives allow the analyst to construct the most complicated
flaws, cores, and other anomalies with ease -- and without complicated
meshing required of other codes.
- VIC-3D® presents results clearly
- VIC-3D® presents results in both tabular and graphic form. A
variety of graphic formats with both 2D and 3D surface plots make
results easy to understand. Impedance-plane formats simulate the display
of your NDE instruments. And an advanced and fully-configurable data
filtering utility gives the user a wide array of post-processing options.
VIC-3D® has a wide range of applications. Here are a few
examples.
Use VIC-3D® to determine layer thicknesses
Let's say you have an oxide coating on a carbon-carbon test piece, and
you need to know the thickness of the coating. You can use VIC-3D®
together with probe measurements to determine the thickness.
Use VIC-3D® to design a probe
Let's say you are designing an air-core probe and would like it to be
optimum for subsurface flaws with dimensions of about 2mm. You can use
VIC-3D® to compute the response to such a flaw for a series of
probes with increasing outer radii and compare the results. VIC-3D®
makes this easy by allowing you to "range" over any of the parameters of
your model probe -- in this case select the probe outer radius as your
"range" parameter and specify a stepsize and range limits. VIC-3D®
will then compute signals for probes with all radii in your range.
Displaying the results for all probes together, you can quickly see
which probe radius gives the best signal. Now, do you need to know the
effect of a 300 ft. coaxial cable on this design? VIC-3D® will tell
you!
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