Tomography training: detecting porosity and internal defects

In industry, detecting porosity, cavities, inclusions, or internal discontinuities is a major challenge for securing part quality, reducing non-conformities, and making processes more reliable. A Tomography Training enables your teams to understand the principles of X-ray non-destructive testing, interpret reconstructed volumes, and identify critical areas without damaging the part. This upskilling is particularly relevant for manufacturers of metal parts, foundry players, precision machining, assembly, and additive manufacturing.

The Tomography Training helps teams better control material integrity, verify the presence of porosity, inspect internal surfaces such as channels or cavities, and perform non-destructive sizing. It helps qualify parts before approval, make acceptance criteria more objective, and strengthen inspection plans.

The training is based on the use of X-ray tomography for non-destructive testing, with learning focused on acquisition parameters, image reconstruction, and reading 2D and 3D volumes. Participants are made aware of the detection of porosity, internal cracking, compaction defects, cavities, and internal geometric singularities.

Choosing an expert laboratory gives you access to training built from real industrial cases: part integrity inspection, root-cause analysis of defects, process validation, and R&D support. The content is therefore directly linked to field constraints, reliability requirements, and the expectations of quality, methods, production, and development teams.

The training is based on hands-on laboratory practice in part characterization and failure investigation. It can be combined with related needs such as surface analysis, morphological examination, fractography, or chemical characterization, in order to link the observation of internal defects to their material or process origin. To explore industrial applications in more depth, it is also worth consulting our dedicated page on Foundry X-ray Tomography.

Beyond simple detection, the training provides the foundations for linking an observed defect to a manufacturing or degradation mechanism: solidification defect, inclusion, particulate contamination, lack of material, internal heterogeneity, or a defect related to an additive manufacturing process. This approach can be complemented by surface or fracture investigations depending on the industrial need.

Depending on the objectives, tomographic reading can be put into perspective with other laboratory techniques: optical microscopy, SEM-FEG observation, EDX analysis, fractography, or elemental chemical analysis. This complementarity makes it possible to distinguish between an internal defect, a material issue, particulate contamination, or a fracture mechanism. To discover other training formats, you can also consult our ICH Q6B Training offering.

The approach can be adapted to the participants' level, the type of parts analyzed, and the industry sector. The training can focus on an introduction to X-ray tomography, advanced interpretation of internal defects, or the integration of tomography with other laboratory analysis. As part of a training pathway, it is also possible to explore other technical topics such as Microplastics Training, depending on your specialization needs.

To build a relevant training course, you need to identify your parts, your materials, the defects you are looking for, the expected level of the participants, and the intended uses: quality control, expertise, R&D, or process improvement. Support can then be structured around application examples, case studies, and measurable objectives. Contacting the laboratory, defining the scope, sharing your needs, scheduling the sessions, and upskilling your teams are the first steps in an effective Tomography training project.