Vikram Thyagarajan Email & Phone Number

o More than 16 years of experience in Non-Destructive Testing and Related Industries with extensive work done in the Oil and Gas and Power Industries.o More than three years of experience doing procedure development and design of probes for Ultrasonic Examination.o Extensive experience in application development for different NDE technologies and markets.o Conam certified in Level 2 Shear Wave and Phased Array, Level 2 Acoustic Emission and Level 1 GUL (Guided Ultrasonics) o Certificate course on Phased Array Ultrasonic by Lavender International-NDT, UK.o Worked extensively with phased array based applications for the Oil and Gas and Power Industries and worked with the different codes for applications.o Specific work done for critical piping in power plants with three major projects for American Electric Power.o In-service inspection of pressure vessels and piping in refineries, power plants and offshore natural gas installations using phased array techniqueso Proficient in usage of PAC Pocket UT system with R-Scan with deployment on different projects.o Proficient in usage of TA-LRUT system for inspection of Annular Ring Corrosion on Tank Floors.o Proficient in usage of the TANKPAC Acoustic Emission System.o Applied Phased Array Ultrasonic Technology and have more than five years of hands on with the R/D Tech® FocusTM and Omniscan Systems and the Technology Design phased array system.o More than a year and a half of Guided Ultrasonics Experience with a Level 1 from GUL in the UK with extensive work on Refinery Piping and Gas and Oil Transmission lines using the G3 guided ultrasonic systemo Extensive work on the CIVA® ultrasonic simulation software.o Comprehensive use of codes as per API (American Petroleum Institute) and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).o Extensive work with the LSI (Large Scale Inspection) crawler system for corrosion mapping of large pressure vessels and towers.Specialties: Phased Array Technologies, GUL Technologies, NDE, ASME/ API Codes, Welding Processes, CAD, CAE, FEA, Design, Programming

Listed skills include Ndt, Inspection, Asme, Piping, and 4 others.

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  Missouri State University

  Mechanical Engineering - Structural Health Monitoring