Advances in Signal Processing for Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Intelligent Signal Processing....Pages 1-12
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) in Nondestructive Inspection....Pages 13-30
Compensation Of Ultrasonic Transducers Response By Adapting Excitation Signals, Application To Defects Evaluation....Pages 31-42
Statistical Method to Evaluate the Amplitude of Cyclical Noisy Signal in IR Thermography....Pages 43-48
Quasi Frequency Diversity Processing of Ultrasonic Signals — A Review....Pages 49-58
Specific Features of NDT Data and Processing Algorithms: New Remedies to Old Ills....Pages 59-70
Edge Detectors Using Greco-Latin Squares....Pages 71-83
Digital Image Processing In Holographic NondeStructive Testing (HNDT)....Pages 85-101
Design of Morphological Processors for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials — A Review....Pages 103-116
Materials NDE by Non Linear Filtering Applying Heat Transfer Models....Pages 117-132
The Influence of Image Digitisation and Calibration of a Scanning System Upon Weld Inspection....Pages 133-144
New Developments In The Detection Of Defects By Photothermal Thermography....Pages 145-160
Advances In Signal Inversion With Applications To Infrared Thermography....Pages 161-184
Use of Finite Difference Method for Predicting Propagation of Ultrasonic Waves in Solids....Pages 185-185
Inverse Scattering of Pulsed Thermal Waves....Pages 187-191
Informative Parameters and Noise in Transient Thermal NDT....Pages 193-207
On Methods for Shape Correction and Reconstruction in Thermographic NDE....Pages 209-224
Use of Neural Networks and Expert Systems for Evaluation....Pages 225-240
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Nondestructive Evaluation....Pages 241-249
Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network Based Classification of Underwater Layered Media Due to Attenuation Effects....Pages 251-267
Wavelet Transform Based Transient Detection....Pages 269-283
The Role of Modeling in the Determination of Probability of Detection....Pages 285-301
Early Detection By Stimulated Infrared Thermography. Comparison With Ultrasonics and Holo/Shearography....Pages 303-321
Combination of FEM and HI for NDE purposes....Pages 323-335
Processing Suited to In-The-Field Applications of NDT....Pages 337-352
Imaging of Magnetic Properties Using Photothermal Techniques in Microwave Resonance....Pages 353-354
Limited View Computed Tomography in Nuclear Inspection....Pages 355-355
Development of Vision Tools for Welding Applications....Pages 357-370
A Novel Technique for Defects Classification from Their Ultrasonic Pulse Echoes....Pages 371-384
Characterization of Advanced Composite Materials by X-Ray Compton Scattering....Pages 385-396
Steel Sheet Surface Quality Monitoring By Multiple Spectral Reflectance Signal Processing....Pages 397-415
Integrated Hardware Implementations for Digital Systems....Pages 417-417
Parallelization of the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique for Ultrasonic Testing....Pages 419-433
Applications of High Resolution Inversion to Ultrasonic Imaging of Multi-Layered Structures....Pages 435-447
The European Project Trappist: Transfer, Processing and Interpretation of 3D NDT Data in a Standard Environment....Pages 449-455
Optics and Information Processing At NOI: A Good Match For NDE....Pages 457-457
Non-Invasive Measurement of Temperature Changes In Tethered Flying Blowflies By Thermal Imaging....Pages 459-467
Substituting Statistical for Physical Decomposition: Are There Applications For Parallel Factor Analysis (Parafac) In Non-Destructive Evaluation?....Pages 469-483
Back Matter....Pages 485-493