In most cases, acoustic emission testing is meant for large material or structure testing. The tested object can be in one dimensional, e.g. pipelines, two dimensional, e.g. metal or fiber plates, and three dimensional, e.g. pressure vessels, oil storage tanks, concrete structures and bridges. As such, multichannel AE systems are needed in order to cover entire areas of interest of the testing structure and to obtain accurate AE location and statistical analysis for the integrity of the structure.
Physical Acoustics Corporation is proud to be the only company in the world that provides a complete multichannel product line, from a two channel PCI Bus card to sixty four channels in a single chassis and two hundred forty channels in a multiple chassis system, to accommodate different kinds of applications.
PAC uses standard high speed PCI AE subsystems...
With the evolution of the personal computer and other relevant electronic chip products and techniques, the multichannel systems have also evolved from 10 channels in a rugged industrial chassis weighing 40 lb in 1980’s to today's 8 channels in one single PCI Bus card weighing 1.1 pounds.
PAC's PC- based multichannel systems are LAN connected to form the 100's of AE channels needed on complex structures...
Physical Acoustics was the first company in the world to manufacture acoustic emission (AE) computer based multichannel systems. Starting with the early 70's, we introduced the Dunegan 1032 and the Trodyne MSCD. Both systems carried the complete workload of acoustic emission research and applications until the end of the 1970's. In the early 80's, Dunegan introduced the DART and DC-8000 and PAC introduced its venerable 3000/3002/3004 and 3000/SPARTAN series, the first truly independent channel and parallel processing AE system.
In 1981, PAC introduced the TRA-64, the first digital card for AE. The TRA series formed the start of the digital AE revolution that was completed with the first Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 16-bit truly AE system the AEDSP-32/16. The MISTRAS-2001 was introduced in 1995, during the European conference on NDT in Nice, France. Over the years, the SPARTAN series grew to PC-Based SPARTAN-AT and later on to SPARTAN 2000. For Small and more ergonomic AE, PAC introduced the LOCAN (2-16 channels) series that was based on SPARTAN technology.
The new generation of DSP parallel processing multichannel systems from PAC perform as industry standard simultaneous process of both features and waveforms. Customers have choices of AE systems for price-performance capabilities. MISTRAS-2001 was followed by the DiSP (Digital SPARTAN-AT and SAMOS Variations of these systems enable the user to connect to notebooks and run on batteries under the "micro" name.
All PAC multichannel systems perform simultaneous processing of features and waveforms...
Depending on the application needs, the number of channels needed for testing vary along with the size of the parts or structures to be tested. A multichannel AE testing system can be two channels for leak detection and location in a section of a pipeline or over two hundred channels for an aircraft or chemical reactor testing. The multichannel AE systems manufactured by Physical Acoustics Corporation can accommodate these different needs.
Only PAC has multiple choices of systems that take into consideration performance and price...
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PCI-2 | 2 channel, 18 bit, 40 MS/sec, high speed, low noise, low cost, wide frequency band, 2 parametric inputs AE PCI card. | Ideal for research and applications where high speed, low noise, low cost, high resolution wide frequency band are required. |
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PCI/DSP-4 | 4 channel, 16 bit, 10 MS/sec, low noise, 8 parametric inputs (on first card of a system), DSP chip embedded AE PCI card. | Ideal for research and applications where high speed, low noise, varied testing purposes and more number of channels are required. |
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PCI-8 | 8 channel, 16 bit, 1 MS/sec, low power, low cost, two parametric inputs AE PCI card. | Ideal for applications where low cost, low frequency band, more number of channels are required. |
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microDiSP | Portable 4 - 8 channel battery (optional) and notebook operated micro-chassis AE system containing the PCI/DSP-4 cards. | Ideal for research and field applications where high speed, low noise, varied testing purposes, light weight and small pack system are required. |
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micro-SAMOS | Portable 8 - 24 channel battery (optional) and notebook operated micro-chassis AE system containing the PCI-8 cards. | Ideal for field applications where low cost, low frequency band, light weight, small pack and more number of channels are required. |
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DiSP-16 | 4 - 16 channel bench top AE system containing the PCI/DSP-4 cards. | Ideal for research and applications where high speed, low noise, varied testing purposes are required. |
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DiSP-24 | 4 - 24 channel compact chassis AE system containing the PCI/DSP-4 cards. | Ideal for research and field applications where high speed, low noise, varied testing purposes, compact size are required. |
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DiSP-56 | 4 - 56 channel rugged chassis AE system containing the PCI/DSP-4 cards. | Ideal for research and applications where high speed, low noise, varied testing purposes and large number of channels are required. |
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SAMOS 32 | 32 channel bench top AE system containing the PCI-8 cards. | Ideal for applications where low cost, low frequency band, large number of channels are required. |
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SAMOS 48 | 48 channel compact chassis AE system containing the PCI-8 cards. | Ideal for applications where low cost, low frequency band, compact size, large number of channels are required. |
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SAMOS 80 | 80 channel rugged size AE system containing the PCI-8 cards. | Ideal for applications where low cost, low frequency band, compact size, large number of channels are required. |
