X-ray Thickness Gauging in Non-Ferrous Metal Rolling

X-ray thickness measurement is a method of determining the thickness of rolled metals with high accuracy when the metal temperature changes from zero to a temperature close to the melting point, and the product moves at high speed. The measurement accuracy does not depend on the temperature change. However, changing the chemical composition of the metal products leads to significant errors in the measurement results as the transfer function of the thickness gauge measuring path depends nonlinearly on the energy of the probing radiation, thickness, and chemical composition of the product. The new digital X-ray thickness gauges series RIT10 do not have this shortcoming, and allow you to measure thickness of rolled metals in rolling mills during the production process for a wide range of non-ferrous metals and their alloys. 

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