RITEC RPR-4000 High Power Tone burst Pulser and Receiver used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories for nondestructive evaluation.

Warwick RI, USA, November 15, 2003- Dr. Mark McKenna, visited the Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratories of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to demonstrate the capabilities of the RITEC SNAP system and the RITEC RPR-4000 toneburst pulser and receiver. The laboratory will be using the new RPR-4000 in a variety of tests with piezoelectrics and EMATs.

McKenna attends APNDT conference in Jeju Island, South Korea and the NDT2003 conference in Tokyo Japan.

Warwick RI, USA, October 20, 2003- Dr. McKenna will be attending the 11th Asia and Pacific conference on Nondestructive Testing in the Hotel Lotte, Jeju Island from November 3-6, 2003, with our Korean representative MKC Korea. Following the conference, he will attend the NDT2003 conference of the Japanese Society of Nondestructive Inspection at the exhibit of our Japanese distributor, Sonix KK.

RITEC exhibits new RPR-4000 at the Fall Meeting of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing in Pittsburgh.

Warwick RI, USA, October 13, 2003- RITEC exhibits the new RPR-4000 at its booth at the Fall Meeting of the ASNT in the David Taylor Conference Center in Pittsburgh PA. The exhibit will run from October 13-15. In addition, Dr. McKenna will present a paper on the RPR-4000 in the Thursday afternoon technical session on October 16.

RITEC Systems used in a variety of applications and papers presented at the QNDE conference.

Warwick RI, USA, July 27, 2003- RITEC products were used in a variety of new applications and papers presented at the recent conference on Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation held in Green Bay Wisconsin from July 27 through August 1, 2003. Some of the more novel applications involved the detection of microcracking in concrete obtained with the RITEC SNAP system, the detection of harmonics in surface acoustic waves, the generation and detection of air-coupled waves using the GA-2500 and the RAM-10000 system, the detection of texture in aluminum sheets using EMATs and the RAM-5000 Mark 6 system. The papers using RITEC products were from a variety of countries, including the USA, the UK, Japan, S. Korea.

McKenna attends QNDE conference in Green Bay and presents a paper on the RPR-4000.

Warwick RI, USA, July 20, 2003- Dr. McKenna will be attending the annual conference on Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation in Green Bay Wisconsin from July 27 through August 1, 2003. He will present a poster on the development of the high power, RPR-4000 pulser/receiver system on Thursday afternoon.

RITEC SNAP System utilized in studies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Warwick RI, USA, July 2, 2003- RITEC announces the sale of a RITEC SNAP system for the study of material properties though nonlinear acoustics to the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. The Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Sound and Vibration Research will be utilizing the SNAP system, in combination with custom filter diplexers, to examine the growth of harmonics in fatigue and damaged materials.

 

McKenna visits Japanese researchers during visit to Japan

Warwick RI, USA, June 27, 2003- Dr. McKenna visited multiple users of RITEC equipment during his recent trip to Japan, including Nagoya Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Central Electric Power Research Institute in Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Applications ranged from biomedical research, materials research, civil engineering applications, ultrasonic cleaning, remedial cleaning of wastewater, and measurements on superconductors and thin film materials.

RITEC introduces the highest power toneburst pulser on the market.

Warwick RI, USA, June 1, 2003- RITEC proudly introduces the new compact RPR-4000 pulser/receiver. Ideal for low sensitivity applications such as those using EMATs, and air-coupled piezoelectric transducers, the RPR-4000 provides the most powerful tone burst available (up to 8 kW). Designed to withstand severe environmental pollution and high temperatures, the RPR-4000 includes a digital synthesizer, a high duty cycle RF amplifier, a low noise broadband receiver, and a diplexer for single transducer operation.

Further information may be found by downloading the specifications at http://www.ritecinc.com/rpr4000specs.pdf A copy of the full page ad which appears in the June 2003 issue of Materials Evaluation can be viewed at http://www.ritecinc.com/RPR-4000-ME-AD.pdf