Grant: Engage Plus Grants Program

Corrosion is a common problem across multiple industries, petrochemical, aerospace or civil infrastructure toname a few. The corrosion is in many cases partially accessible or completely inaccessible which preventsvisual inspection or the use of more advanced methods such as ultrasonic thickness gauging or eddy currenttechniques. The latter two techniques are slow and tedious when a large area must be scanned. The need for arapid, accurate, long range inspection technique to estimate the remnant thickness in a structure is thereforehigh. In the collaboration with Olympus NDT Canada, a electromagnetic acoustic transducer concept will beevaluated for a corrosion monitoring technique based on high order shear horizontal modes.