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Improving Subsea MPI Consistency

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Being one of the earliest of all NDT methods, magnetic particle inspection (MPI) has a long and esteemed history of land-based success and cost effectiveness: and today it is used with confidence in many industries. However, the standard textbooks and Codes and Standards on the subject have numerous unexplained anomalies in some of the physics, which, due to the established land-based confidence, have not in the past really needed to have been resolved. These anomalies remained immaterial so long as results were consistent and “believable”.

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  1. Inspection IQ Partners, London, UK

    K. P. Alien & A. W. Crawford

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Alien, K.P., Crawford, A.W. (1986). Improving Subsea MPI Consistency. In: Submersible Technology. Advances in Underwater Technology, Ocean Science and Offshore Engineering, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4203-5_22

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