Nondestructive Characterization of Materials VIII

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Laser-Ultrasonics with a Single Laser for Generation and Detection....Pages 1-6
Pulse Parameter Influence on the Laser Generation of Acoustic Waves....Pages 7-12
Optical Detection of Ultrasound using Two-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Photorefractive Crystals and Comparison with the Fabry-Perot....Pages 13-19
Optimizing the Photo Induced-EMF Response for High-Speed Compensation and Broadband Laser-Based Ultrasonic Remote Sensing....Pages 21-26
High Frequency Laser-Ultrasonics....Pages 27-32
Measurements of Sound Velocities at High Temperatures by using Laser Generated Ultrasound....Pages 33-38
A Novel Laser Ultrasound Source and its Implementation in the Drinks Canning Industry....Pages 39-45
Laser Ultrasound Source for NDE Applications: Calibration in a Liquid....Pages 47-52
Sub-Micron Materials Characterization using Near-Field Optics....Pages 53-57
Laser Ultrasonic Testing of Highly Attenuative and Weakly Generating Composites....Pages 59-65
Laser Ultrasound Imaging of Lamb Waves in Thin Plates....Pages 67-72
Detection of Corrosion in Aging Aircraft Structures by Laser-Ultrasonics....Pages 73-78
Photorefractive Laser Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Materials Characterization....Pages 79-84
Application of Laser-Ultrasonic Method to Evaluate Elastic Stiffness Degradation in Ceramic Matrix Composites....Pages 85-90
Measurement of the Stiffness Tensor of Orthotropic Materials from Line Source Point Receiver Laser Ultrasonic Method....Pages 91-96
Sagnac Interferometer for Ultrasound Detection on Rough Surfaces....Pages 97-103
Laser-Ultrasound Tissue Characterisation Methods for Potential Use in Laser Angioplasty Procedures....Pages 105-110
Inspection of Rocket Engine Components Using Laser-Based Ultrasound....Pages 111-116
Modeling Heterogeneities and Elastic Anisotropy in Single Crystal Zinc and Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composites....Pages 117-124
Feasibility Study of a Nonlinear Ultrasonic Technique to Evaluate Adhesive Bonds....Pages 125-131
Nonlinear Vibro-Acoustic Nondestructive Testing Technique....Pages 133-138
Noncontact Ultrasonic Spectroscopy for Detecting Creep Damage in 2.25Cr-1Mo Steel....Pages 139-144
Ultrasonic Damping and Velocity During Recovery and Recrystallization of Aluminum....Pages 145-150
Investigation of Material Properties by Acoustic Methods on the Base of Inelastic Mechanical Processes....Pages 151-156
Study of Microplasticity of Solids by Laser Interferometry Method....Pages 157-162
Interatomic Interaction and Alloying Criterion for Ferritic Alloys....Pages 163-168
Internal Friction Nondestructive Evaluation of Plastic Properties of Crystals....Pages 169-174
Physical Property Determination for Process Monitoring and Control....Pages 175-182
NDE for Strength Determination of Diffusion Bonds....Pages 183-188
Monitoring of Texture Development in Copper-Alloy Sheet....Pages 189-195
Magnetostrictive EMAT Efficiency as a Nondestructive Evaluation Tool....Pages 197-203
Ultrasonic Detection of Unstable Plastic Flow in Metal Cutting....Pages 205-209
Ultrasonic Determination of Case Depth and Surface Hardness in Axles....Pages 211-216
High Energy X-Ray Diffraction Technique for Monitoring Solidification of Single Crystal Castings....Pages 217-221
Characterizing Martensitic Steel with Measurements of Ultrasonic Velocity....Pages 223-227
Ultrasonic Characterization of Microstructural States in Aluminum Welds Depending on the Welding Parameters....Pages 229-234
Development of On-Line Lamb Wave Testing Technique using Real Time Digital Signal Processing....Pages 235-238
Ultrasonic and Acousto-Ultrasonic Inspection and Characterization of Titanium Alloy Structures....Pages 239-244
Ultrasonic On-Line Monitoring and Mapping of Low-Temperature Diffusion Bonding of 6061-T6 Aluminum....Pages 245-250
Application of Ultrasonic Image to the Evaluation of Temperature Distribution in Metal Powder Compacts During Spark Plasma Activated Sintering....Pages 251-256
Reaction-Kinetic Model for the Calculation of the Chemical Composition of Weld Metals in Shielding Gas Arc Welding Processes....Pages 257-262
The Characterization of Rolled Sheet Alloy using Infrared Microscopy....Pages 263-268
Determination of Mechanical Properties of Steel Sheet by Electromagnetic Techniques....Pages 269-275
Resonant Frequency Testing....Pages 277-284
Rolled Steel Surface Inspection using Microwave Methods....Pages 285-290
Two-Port Network Analyzer Dielectric Constant Measurement of Granular or Liquid Materials for the Study of Cement Based Materials....Pages 291-296
Microwave Dielectric Properties of a Slab Determined by a Multi-Frequency Free-Space Technique....Pages 297-303
Preliminary Evaluation of Microwave Techniques for Inspection of Thick Layered Composite Deck Joints....Pages 305-310
Analysis of Loading vs. Microwave Fatigue Crack Detection Sensitivity using Open-Ended Waveguides....Pages 311-316
Nondestructive Characterization of Materials: Applications for Humanitarian Demining....Pages 317-322
Monitoring of Attenuation During Phase Transformations in Steel using Laser-Ultrasonics....Pages 323-328
Rapid Microstructure Assessment in Rolled Steel Products using Laser-Ultrasonics....Pages 329-334
Compensated Laser-Based Ultrasonic Receiver for Industrial Applications....Pages 335-340
Industrial Demonstrations of Laser-Ultrasonics Based Process Control, Utilizing the Textron Laserwave™ Analyzer....Pages 341-346
Advances in Ultrasonic Inspection Methods for PIM Process Monitoring and Control....Pages 347-352
Anisotropic Electric Conductivities in Graphite Fiber Reinforced Composites....Pages 353-358
Acoustic Characterization of Morphologically Textured Short-Fiber Composites: Estimation of Physical and Mechanical Properties....Pages 359-364
Laser Scattering Detection of Machining-Induced Damage in Si 3 N 4 Components....Pages 365-370
Nondestructive Characterization of the Nucleation and Early Vertical Bridgman Crystal Growth of Cd 1-x Zn x Te....Pages 371-376
Multi-Channel Pyrometry and Thermography — A Non-Contact Method for the Determination of the Spectral Emissivity of High-Temperature Materials....Pages 377-382
A Comparison of Dielectric and Ultrasonic Cure Monitoring of Advanced Composites....Pages 383-392
Noninvasive Measurement of Acoustic Properties of Fluids Using an Ultrasonic Interferometry Technique....Pages 393-399
Characterization of Fiber-Waviness in Composite Specimens using Deep Line-Focus Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 401-407
New X-Ray Refractography for Nondestructive Evaluation of Advanced Materials....Pages 409-416
CCD-Cameras for X-Ray Investigations....Pages 417-422
Development of X-Ray Diffraction Methods to Examine Single Crystal Turbine Blades....Pages 423-430
White Beam Transmission Topography of Nickel-Based Alloy Single Crystal Turbine Blades using Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 431-436
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Plastic Strain in Deformed Layer using X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 437-442
Nondestructive Testing of Ceramic Automotive Valves....Pages 443-448
Advancement in Nondestructive Investigation of Liquid YAG at very High Temperature by Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 449-454
Multi-Energy Radioscopy — An X-Ray Technique for Materials Characterization....Pages 455-460
In-Situ, Positive Materials Identification at Room and Elevated Temperatures with Modern, Portable, Optical Emission and X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers....Pages 461-468
Problem of Characterization of Vacuum Vessel Shell for Spherical Tokamak Globus-M at Different Stages of its Fabrication....Pages 469-474
Measurement of Material Properties for Early Detection of Fatigue Damage in Highway Bridge Steels....Pages 475-480
Ultrasonic Measurement of Stress in Bridges....Pages 481-486
Development of Scanning High-T C SQUID-Based Instrument for Nondestructive Evaluation in a Magnetically Noisy Environment....Pages 487-492
A Detection Method for Fine Plastic Deformations of Steel using a High Performance Magnetic Gradiometer....Pages 493-497
Distributed Real-Time System for Acoustic Emission Waveform Capture....Pages 499-505
Acoustic Emission Method for Partial Discharges Measurements of Electric Power Components....Pages 507-510
The Recent Results of Computer Processing of Digitized Signals Gained During Flaw Detection Type Checking of Steel Cables....Pages 511-516
Detection of Crack Position by AE and EME Effects in Solids....Pages 517-521
Analysis of Acoustic Emission from Rock Samples Loaded to Long-Term Strength Limit....Pages 523-528
Neutron Diffraction and Ultrasonic Sounding: A Tool for Solid Body Investigation....Pages 529-533
Development of an Epithermal Neutron Detector for Non-Destructive Measurement of Concrete Hydration....Pages 535-540
Ultrasonic Assessment of Damage in Concrete under Cyclic Compression....Pages 541-547
Assessment of Acoustic Travel Time Tomography (ATTT) at Barker Dam....Pages 549-554
A Nonlinear Acoustic Technique for Crack and Corrosion Detection in Reinforced Concrete....Pages 555-560
Evaluation of Wood Products Based on Elastic Waves....Pages 561-566
Numerical Modeling of Elastic Wave Propagation in Random Particulate Composites....Pages 567-574
Gas-Coupled Ultrasonics for High-Pressure Pipeline Inspection....Pages 575-580
Elastic Modulus and Damping of Concrete Elements....Pages 581-586
Nondestructive Evaluation of Connection Stiffness....Pages 587-594
Renewing Original Shape of Acoustic Emission Signals Changed While Propagation in a Material....Pages 595-599
Nondestructive Evaluation of the Residual Life of Steel-Belted Radial Truck Tires....Pages 601-607
Application of the Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution to the Measurement of the Dispersion of Lamb Modes in Graphite/Epoxy Plates....Pages 609-614
Stochastic Microfracture Process Analysis of SiC Particle Dispersed Glass Composites by Acoustic Emission....Pages 615-620
Predictive Measurement Using AE: Fracture and Lifetime of Al-Alloys....Pages 621-628
AE Characterization of Microfracture Process in Ceramic Materials....Pages 629-634
Characterization of Fiber Fracture Via Quantitative Acoustic Emission....Pages 635-640
Acoustic Emission Characteristics During Ring Burst Test of FW-FRP Multi-ply Composite....Pages 641-646
The Study of PVDF Acoustic Emission Sensor....Pages 647-652
Microstructure and Texture Influences on Ultrasonic Quantities for Welding Stress Analysis....Pages 653-658
Residual Stress Measurements in Front of a Crack Tip with High Spatial Resolution by Using Barkhausen Microscopy....Pages 659-663
Nondestructive Stress Measurement in Steel using Magnetostriction....Pages 665-670
Electromagnetic Acoustic Spectroscopy in the Bolt Head for Evaluating the Axial Stress....Pages 671-676
Detection of Residual Stresses and Nodular Growth in Thin Ferromagnetic Layers with Barkhausen and Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 677-682
Fatigue Characterization of AISI 321 Austenitic Steel by Means of HTC-SQUID....Pages 683-688
Nondestructive Characterization of Materials at the NIST Research Reactor....Pages 689-694
An Ultrasonic Comb Transducer for Guided Wave Mode Selection in Materials Characterization....Pages 695-700
Characterization of the Microstructure of Laser-Hardened Carbon Steels by Means of Positron Lifetime Measurements and Micromagnetics....Pages 701-706
Determination of Mass Density and Elastic Constants in the Surface Layer With Leaky Surface Waves....Pages 707-712
Determination of Porosity in Fiber Reinforced Plastics by Computer Aided Ultrasonic Signal Analysis (CAMPUS)....Pages 713-718
Application of Neural Networks in Auto-Recognition of Eddy Current Testing Signal on Line....Pages 719-724
Initial Results of Applying Single Transducer Thickness-Independent Ultrasonic Imaging to Tubular Structures....Pages 725-731
Flaw Detection in Steel Wires by Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers....Pages 733-738
Nondestructive Characterization of the Thermal Diffusivity of Poor Conductors by a Low Cost, Flash Technique....Pages 739-745
Rapid, Contactless Measurement of Thermal Diffusivity....Pages 747-750
Effects of Texture on Plastic Anisotropy in Sheet Metals....Pages 751-756
Applying Phase Sensitive Modulated Thermography to Ground Sections of a Human Tooth....Pages 757-762
Recovering Echo Signals for In-Vitro Characterization of Hard Dental Tissues....Pages 763-768
Inversion of Eddy Current Data for Recovery of the Electromagnetic Properties of Materials in Layered Flat and Tubular Products....Pages 769-773
Ultrasonic Leaky Wave Measurements for Materials Evaluation....Pages 775-780
Modeling Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Due to Distributions of One and Two Dimensional Micro-Cracks: A Review....Pages 781-786
Sizing of 3-D Surface Breaking Flaws from the Distribution of Leakage Field....Pages 787-792
Characterizing the Surface Crack Size by Magnetic Flux Leakage Testing....Pages 793-798
Time Domain Waveforms of a Line-Focus Transducer Probing Anisotropic Solids....Pages 799-804
Rapid Infrared Characterization of Thermal Diffusivity in Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composite Components....Pages 805-810
Raman Spectroscopy for In-Situ Characterisation of Steam Generator Deposits....Pages 811-816
Characterization of Near Surface Mechanical Properties of Ion-Exchanged Glasses Using Surface Brillouin Spectroscopy....Pages 817-823
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Properties of As-Quenched Steels....Pages 825-829
Back Matter....Pages 831-835