Transmission UT method:- In this method two different tranducers are used, one acting as a transmitter and other acting as a receiver. The transmitter convers electrical pulse into sound signal. This sound pulse travels through the material. the receiver on opposite side receives these sound signals and converted into electrical pulse. This signal pulse sent to CRT screen. This screen displays amplitude on Y axis and time on X axis. If the signals are not received by receiver it indicates that there is crack in the material, complete lack of signal indicates that flow or crack is very large enough to reflect completely. If the received signal is 100% the the material is flowless.
Pulse Echo UT method:- In this case only one transducer is used. This transducer acts as transmitter as well as receiver. Initially transducer acts as transmitter. It converts electrical energy into sound energy. This sound pulse travels through the material and reflected by crack or opposite wall and return back.
Now the transducer acts as receiver. The received sound energy is converted into electrical pulse. This signal pulse sent to CRT screen. This screen displays amplitude on Y axis and time on X axis. Some sound is transmitted through material and some sound is reflected from the first surfaces and gives a pulse which indicates the initial pulse. The electrical transmission pulse triggers a sound pulse at the probe crystal. At the same time this voltage pulse is fed to the input of CRT is called initial pulse as shown in following diagram.