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Safety is the single most critical aspect of aerospace whether that be aeroplanes, helicopters or drones. Non-destructive testing (NDT) is used throughout a product’s lifecycle from the qualification of new materials and the designing of new aircrafts to in-service inspections of aircraft structures and engines.  Within aerospace NDT plays a vital role in the design, manufacture and maintenance processes. The dolphicam2 uses NDT technology to examine materials and components before they enter service and while they are in service.  It can also detect flaws and differences in materials that would otherwise be very difficult to detect using destructive methods or visual inspection.   

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Dolphicam2 is certified by two of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers - Boeing has authorised specific NDT procedures for their 787 aeroplanes, and Airbus has accepted the dolphicam2 for all composite inspections on its assets.
 
Dolphitech leads the market in NDT of composite materials. Our flagship product, the dolphicam2 is a hand-held, easy to use, ultrasonic scanning tool that produces real-time, analysis-ready imagery of composite, metal and multi-materials with the most accurate and highest visual quality. 

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Inspections include multiple scenarios such as impact damage, mapping corrosion and metal fatigue in the fuselage, inspecting wings or blades for fatigue damage, disbonds and cracks detection.   

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NDT Level III, United Airlines

The dolphicam2 platform requires minimum training to operate.   We offer training and support so you can inspect and gather high accuracy and visualised data wherever and wherever it is required. The platform will be ready to use in 60 seconds, increasing efficiency and saving you valuable time between site visits. No more downtime while calibrating your hardware either.

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Non-destructive testing for the military is essential. It can range from straight forward NDT such as ultrasonic testing of metals aboard naval vessels to the testing of complex aerospace components that combine metals and composite materials.  In all cases the main priority is to ensure equipment is built and maintained to the highest safety and performance standards.

Understanding the extent of damage caused by sudden impacts, extreme environments and extensive use, is crucial to ensuring the safety and integrity of vital air, sea and land assets. Ultrasonic testing is an ideal choice for performing inspections when there is a requirement to locate voids, cracks, laminations, and measure remaining thickness. Many equipment materials used are subject to structural changes due to the operating environment, and so it is important that structural integrity is not compromised. 

Our flagship technology platform, dolphicam2, specialises in accurate, high-resolution, analysis-ready digital visualisations for the non-destructive testing of these materials, while being easy to mobilise and use in even the most challenging of locations. 

Due to the demanding environment military components or structures are exposed to, quality assurance is paramount, as is the ability to re-inspect at service intervals to ensure the continued integrity.  The dolphicam2 provides one platform with the most advanced technology, enabling a simple way to perform inspection across all materials.

Dolphicam2 requires minimal training to operate the platform; enabling your boots on the ground to inspect, visualise and quantify specific inspections on assets at any time and any location. Each dolphicam2 system is supplied ready to use in a lightweight, portable pelicase, easy to pack, easy to deploy, easy to carry to the inspection site. 

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Across the private, defence and commercial marine industry, insurers and governing bodies alike have placed an increasing emphasis on the importance of NDT inspection of craft.   

Due to the complexity and size of marine equipment, NDT is key to detecting and evaluating defects in materials. Flaws can affect material in different ways and these can be caused by corrosion or fatigue.   NDT is an important for everything from hull inspection to piping surveys to guarantee structural integrity, as flaws or cracks can lead to loss of strength or failure in service.  


Dolphitech’s flagship ultrasonic testing (UT) platform, dolphicam2 uses cutting-edge matrix array technology to accurately identify and characterise damage, defects, and degradation. It can perform UT inspections faster and more accurately that some traditional UT methods, saving both time and costs in inspection and evaluation. This makes it an excellent choice to use on vessel structures and their components.  

The dolphicam2 can determine the thickness and condition of masts and spars, and, through comparison to the design and interpretation of the signal changes, identify voids, porosity and inclusions in the laminate.  It can also detect impact damage, corrosion and help determine degradation rates and remaining life on hulls. 

Acquiring reliable, verifiable visual inspection data that stands up to scrutiny, ready for analysis and reporting is essential in Marine NDT and the dolphicam2 delivers exactly that.  It’s an innovative, accessible, cost-effective solution to meet the challenges of the market. 


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With a wide range of metals, composites and multi-materials in use on modern craft, and small, hard-to-reach areas requiring assessment, inspection tools must be capable of performing reliably and accurately in all conditions.

Increasingly insurers are requesting  manufacturers use NDT to improve product development. Using the dolphicam2 regularly could be the difference between a few quick repairs rather than replacement or dry docking.  Our heritage in research and development means we have become an established technical leader in industrial ultrasonic scanning technology, providing NDT equipment to improve measurable efficiencies in testing, production processes and cost.

10 years ago it was hard to believe that commercial space travel would be something available within our lifetime but advancing technology and private investment has made this fantasy a reality.  Dophicam2 is in use as the premium non-destructive testing (NDT) solution for assuring the integrity of spacecraft.
Our equipment has, and is, supporting some of the most exciting space projects seen this century, and dolphicam2 is helping assure the integrity, viability and investment of some of the world’s most complex, and expensive commercial projects.

Materials testing for the aerospace industry requires the utmost experience, responsibility and innovation.  That’s where the dolphicam2 can provide you with the confidence that even the smallest of flaws will be detected. 

Inspections on composites or metals during the manufacturing process to check the laminate to honeycomb core bonding, COPV (Composite Over Pressure Vessel) inspection, impact damage assessment, corrosion mapping and assessment in the fuselage, damage inspection in the blades or wings, adhesive disbond and crack detection.

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As the energy transition gains momentum, the ways that companies are meeting their customers’ power needs have grown to encompass a diverse energy portfolio. Conventional and renewable energy sources are changing. Wind, nuclear,  geothermal, oil and gas, each sector brings its own challenges. With downtime commanding a premium, ensuring the integrity of equipment, materials and components lie at the heart of energy generation success.

Our cutting-edge ultrasonic testing (UT) inspection technology can confirm sizing for defects, damage, and degradation early, before your issues lead to discontinued operations and major shutdowns.   The dolphicam2 is ideal for detecting and characterising flaws in wind energy assets, including lighting damage delamination, heat damage, impact damage, disbonds, corrosion, cracking and more. 

Dolphitech’s intelligent approach to problem-solving has delivered cutting-edge ultrasonic technology (UT) equipment to the market, providing powerful visualizations of your inspection data instantly. The knowledge you will gain using our dolphicam2 enables improved safety and assurances and as a result, better decision making. From wind blades to pressure vessels, onshore and offshore, the condition of your assets is visible with dolphicam2. 

Dolphitech’s flagship Ultrasonic technology (UT), dolphicam2 is an ideal platform to detect and inspect damages, defects and degradations. Dolphicam2’s compact, portable, precise system is ideal for manned and robotic inspections of the materials that make up a wind turbine’s tower and blades.

Dolphicam2 is exceptionally good at enabling quick and accurate inspection of materials common to the Wind industry such as: metals, carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP), glass-reinforced aluminium laminate (GLARE), multi materials and composites. 

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Read how a transducer TRM-EA-1.5MHz without a delay line, provided maximum penetration power required for complex composite materials used in the construction of turbine blades.

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Safety and reliability are key factors for a consumer when considering the purchase of a new vehicle.  With the global automotive industry ever-changing, manufacturers must ensure that each chassis or component built and every vehicle assembled, is consistently compliant with stringent international industry safety and regulatory standards.  With increasing reliance on modern, lightweight composites and multi materials that interface with high-performance metals, the industry relies on non-intrusive inspection techniques such as ultrasonics (UT) to detect flaws in safety critical components.

The most effective way to perform manufacturing inspections is with dolphicam2.  The Dolphicam2 can visualize, characterize and measure even the smallest of defects. Our experienced dolphitech team are solvers by nature and are dedicated to supporting customers to achieve the highest standards of component safety.

Our original technology was adapted to read barcodes printed on the bare metal of the chassis through multiple layers of coatings and paint, negating the need to scrape back the paint to find serial numbers.  The dolphicam2 allows our customers to make accurate, consistent, detailed NDT a straightforward and cost-effective task.

Dolphitech’s flagship Ultrasonic Technology (UT), dolphicam2 is an ideal platform to detect and inspect damages, defects and degradations.   Dolphitech2 is flexible, easy to deploy and handheld, making it the ultimate tool for fast inspections. 

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Here at dolphitech we’re always talking to our customers and looking for ways to improve our dolphicam2 ultrasonic software and move the non-destructive testing market forward. Based on the feedback we receive, we provide regular software updates to all our users, and today we are pleased to launch the new 1.4 software version.  



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Working with a NDT platform that process extreme amounts of data could result in time-consuming startups, waiting for the system initialize and get ready to go. Well, our developers have had just that in their back of their minds and have made sure that not is the case with dolphicam2.

Assembling a NDT platform so compelling is incredibly simple. Connect the TRM to the black box. Turn the Toughpad and Black Box on and start the software. The platform will be ready to use in 60 seconds, increasing efficiency and saving you valuable time between site visits. No more downtime while calibrating your hardware either.

Wind energy, with its ability to generate clean electricity, has proven itself as a key method towards tackling the climate emergency. However, long term integrity of the wind turbine blades remains vital for their safe operation. In-service inspection is therefore key, however this is generally limited to visual assessment. This is because the glass fibre composites used in the blades make techniques that look inside the volume of these difficult to use. Dolphitech’s unique ultrasonic platform is able to penetrate deep into the glass fibre and offers a superior inspection. This in turn provides asset owners with more detailed, volumetric information about the condition of their blades, and in doing so extend the operational life of wind turbines.

During this project we performed a non-destructive testing (NDT) trial on the blades of several wind turbines on our customer’s wind farm, using the easily deployable dolphicam2 Ultrasonic platform.

Our customer was keen to understand the capability and penetration depth of our latest low frequency transducer when used with dolphicam2, which provides much more accurate, detailed and faster visual performance.


The customer had specific requirements to review the thin and thick profile trailing edges, the rib location in the mid-chord of the blades, and also the foam core target areas.

They also wanted to understand the effectiveness of our dolphicam2, in order to assess impact damage to the blade compared to traditional visual inspection methods; as such, a wide range of blades and scenarios were tested to identify and prove the capability of our technology.


A key benefit of the dolphicam2 is that it's highly adaptable for wide range of scenarios, applications and materials, making it suitable for almost any industry.

Weighing in at 3kg for the whole system, the dolphicam2 is also extremely portable and easy to use, which cuts down the time taken to physically inspect. The platform will be ready to use in as little as 60 seconds, making it the fastest in the industry. Portability is a critical factor for the wind energy sector. Wind blades are the largest single-piece of installed composite structures in the world. With their decentralized, often remote locations, combined with their height, portability of the NDT platforms used to inspect them is essential.

Different transducers can be used depending on the material type, area and thickness of the material being tested. This ensures that the most effective results are always achieved. During this specific project, a transducer TRM-EA-1.5 MHz used without a delay line, provided maximum penetration depth. This is required for the thick section glass fibre composites used in the construction of turbine blades.



The comparison between our dolphicam2 platform and traditional inspection is demonstrated through the results we were able to achieve for our customer:

• The dolphicam2 was able to fully penetrate the material, identifying layers of material and bonded areas. Previous tests have provided penetration depths to approximately 60mm.

• Our platform was also able to review and test the integrity of the skin-stiffener interfaces of the blades very quickly and with minimal set-up time for the equipment.

• Defects such as alack of adhesive cause little or no change in the penetrated thickness and are hard to detect. However, the dolphicam2 made it easy to screen for these traditionally hard to find disbonds both while in service and during the fabrication stage.


We clearly demonstrated that the dolphicam2 provided quantitative data for damaged areas of the blade, allowing engineers to assess whether to repair or replace the blade. Wind blade inspections were performed on-site and at height due to its portability and ease of use. Thanks to our non-destructive evaluation, data was also quickly uploaded and shared with experts globally for post-processing and further analysis.

Repairing wind blades in the field used to present big challenges. However the dolphicam2 delivers a one-stop shop for inspection, and the information provided will enable quicker, and better informed decisions to be made about the continued performance of the blades. 



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