Introducing Danos NDT Services

In today’s environment, the need to embrace the ever-changing market demands is more important than ever. Being dedicated to living our values, we pride ourselves in improvement by “developing creative solutions to challenging business problems so that we may offer the most value to our customers”.

With the market requesting more all-inclusive, multi-craft crews utilizing fewer members, we have challenged our personnel to take on more responsibility to achieve this goal. In doing so, our rope access service line has incorporated basic non-destructive testing (NDT) into its divisional arsenal which allows for a broader range of craft experience available to our clients. NDT is a broad, interdisciplinary field that plays a critical role in assuring that structural components and systems perform their function in a reliable and cost-effective fashion.

This combination allows for the inspection procedures required by our clients without the increased costs for scaffolding or other means of access. The addition of NDT brings Danos one step closer to being an “all in one” service provider.

Our NDT provides the following:

• Magnetic Particle Inspection –Is a process for detecting surface and shallow subsurface discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials such as iron, nickel, cobalt, and some of their alloys. The process puts a magnetic field into the part and utilizes wet or dry magnetic particles added to the surface to detect flaws.
• Visual Inspection is the inspection of equipment and structures using either or all of raw human senses such as vision, hearing, touch and smell and/or any non-specialized inspection equipment
• Ultrasonic Testing is a process of transmitting very short ultrasonic pulse-waves into materials to detect internal flaws or to characterize materials
• Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement determines the local thickness of a solid element by transmitting short ultrasonic pulse-waves into an item and measuring the time taken for the wave to return to the surface.
• Liquid Penetrant Testing is used to check for deficiencies such as cracks by spreading a thin liquid dye onto the material's surface, followed by the application of a developer.

The addition of NDT to our rope access division has already proven invaluable earlier this year when a large shelf operator challenged us to provide a construction crew that could repair/replace a series of pipeline riser supports while allowing for limited personnel on board and minimizing the total amount of nonproductive time utilized. Our multi-craft rope access technician team answered this call by performing rigging, fitting, welding, coating and NDT services. This all completed ahead of schedule, while maintaining a minimal crew size on the facility without the need for extra logistics to mobilize a specialist crew.

This transformation is just another example of the ingenuity and resilience of our team and how they consistently deliver our purpose to “Honor God. Develop great people to solve big challenges for our customers and community. “