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resolution of 0.3 mm. The equipment can take sequences of up to 100 frames at 150 kVp and 50 frames at 350 kVp. The 150 kVp pulser can be used with a remote tubehead. The image intensifier is equipped with a Varian caessium iodide input phosphor screen of 210
mm diameter which gives rapid erasure of former images. The system can be fitted with a z o o m . The camera is a Photo-Sonics 16 mm IW machine with pin register rated to 1000 frames s-1 . (Fig.8). Field Emission (UK), 1 Wallace Way, Hitchin SG4 0SE, UK
CRIkEnDRR February
282 Bremen 77, Postfach 77 02 07, Wurzburg, West Germany
Information group on acoustic emission
The Hague, The Netherlands Bond voor Materialenkennis, Stadhouderslaan 28, Postbus 9321, Den Haag-2078, The Netherlands
Fig.7 An alloy sorter need not be compl icdted
X - r a d i o g r a p h y speeds up Field Emission (UK) has introduced an American high-speed x-raycin~ system onto the British Market. The system was recently exhibited for the first time at the international high-speed photography congress. It repeats x-ray flash exposures of 3 0 - 5 0 ns for each frame of film to give frame rates of up to 1 0 0 0 s l . It uses an x-ray image intensifier to produce pictures for filming. There are four basic units: an electronic pulse generator, a flash x-ray generator, an image intensifier and a high-speed camera. The electronic pulse generator comprises the high-voltage power supply and control as well as synchronization and trigger circuitry. The flash x-ray generator includes a Marx-surge highvoltage pulser and a cold-cathode diode field-emission x-ray tube at 350 or 150 kVp. The 350 kVp can penetrate 50 mm ofaluminium. The makers claima
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Leicester, UK Mr C. H. L. Venn, BCE, 153 St Paul's Wood llill, Orpington, Kent, UK
Reactor Inspection Technology
Bristol, UK Mr A. Bland, British Nuclear Energy Society, Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, Thornbury, Bristol, UK
8--11
Acoustics
Austin. Texas, USA Acoustic Society of America, 355 East 45th Street, New York 10017, New York. LISA
March 9--11
20-21
Oberursel, West Germany Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Metal]kunde, 637 Obcrursel.
Adenauerallee 2 l, West Germany
24-27
13--16
7th session of the working group for scanning microscopy in material testing
Wurzburg, W Germany Prof O. Schaaber, Institut fur Harterei-Technik,
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING . FEBRUARY 1975
Joint railroad technical conference
San Francisco, California, USA, ASME, 345 East 4?th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
IEEE international convention and exhibition
14--17
Magnetism
London, UK lOP, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1, UK
April 2
Temperature measurement
Teddington, UK tOP, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1, UK
Drawing wire, tubes and rods
New York, USA IEEE 345 E 47 Street, New York, USA
Fig,8 X-radiography needs complex instrumentation, camera and pulsed source
Inspex 75, 6th engineering inspection and quality control exhibition
15--17
Advances in automatic testing technology
London, UK IERE, 8 - 9 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RG, UK
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