Designation: A 388/A 388M – 03Used in USNRC-RDT standardsAn American National StandardStandard Practice forUltrasonic Ex amination of Heav y Steel Forgings1This standard is issued under the fixed designation A 388/A 388M; the number immediately following the designation indicates the yearof original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision
A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval
A superscript epsilon (e ) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval
Scope*1
1 This practice 2 covers the examination procedures for thecontact, pulse-echo ultrasonic examination of heavy steelforgings by the straight and angle-beam techniques
Thestraight beam techniques include utilization of the DGS (Dis-tance Gain-Size) method
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