Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation: Volume 2A

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Middle Ground of the NDE R&D Spectrum....Pages 1-18
Considerations for Quantitative NDE and NDE Reliability Improvement....Pages 19-35
Probabilistic Consequences of Imperfect NDE....Pages 37-51
Evaluating POD/CL Characterizations of NDE Reliability....Pages 53-68
Improving NDE Through Multiple Inspections....Pages 69-87
Ultrasonic Flaw Detection in Turbine Rotor Component Web Geometries....Pages 89-112
Detection of Flaws Below Curved Surfaces....Pages 113-128
Attenuation and Grain Noise Parameters in Ni-Base Alloys....Pages 129-145
Computer Simulation of Probability of Detection....Pages 147-169
Eddy-Current Probe Design....Pages 171-188
Eddy Current Probe Design and Matched Filtering for Optimum Flaw Detection....Pages 189-204
Development of an Eddy Current Inspection Technique for Sleeved Engine Disk Bolt Holes....Pages 205-223
Analysis and Design of Eddy-Current Measurement Systems....Pages 225-244
An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Ultrasonic Weld Evaluation....Pages 245-255
Finite Element Modeling of Ultrasonic Inspection of Weldments....Pages 257-270
High Frequency, Angle Beam EMATs for Weld Inspection....Pages 271-281
An Analysis of Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer Arrays for Nondestructive Evaluation of Thick Metal Sections and Weldments....Pages 283-307
Progress in Non-Destructive Fatigue Crack Detection and Monitoring in Welded Pressure Vessels Subjected to External Pressure Cycling....Pages 309-323
Effects of Crack Closure on Ultrasonic Transmission....Pages 325-343
Simulation of Closure: Effects on Crack Detection Probability and Stress Distributions....Pages 345-352
Detection of Closed Internal Fatigue Cracks....Pages 353-365
Inventors and Investors: Technology Transfer by Personal Chemistry....Pages 367-377
Inverse Technology Transfer: Development Opportunities Defined from Practice....Pages 379-383
Diffraction of Horizontally Polarized Shear Waves by Normal Edge Cracks in a Plate....Pages 385-411
Wavefront Fields in the Scattering of Elastic Waves by Surface-Breaking and Sub-Surface Cracks....Pages 413-440
Comparison of Matrix Methods for Elastic Wave Scattering Problems....Pages 441-458
Development of Acoustic Emission Methods for In-Flight Monitoring of Aircraft Structures....Pages 459-470
Identification of Acoustic Emission Sources by Pattern Recognition Techniques....Pages 471-487
Pattern Recognition Analysis of Acoustic Emission Data from 7075-T651 Aluminum Simulated Joint Specimens....Pages 489-501
Acoustic Emission Linear Pulse Holography....Pages 503-516
Effect of Crack Presence on In-Flight Airframe Noises in a Wing Attachment Component....Pages 517-531
A Miniature Optical Acoustic Emission Transducer....Pages 533-538
Application of Ultrasonic Spectroscopy to Scattering of Rayleigh Wave in a Half-Space....Pages 539-556
The Transmission/Scattering of Elastic Waves by a Simple Inhomogeneity — A Comparison of Theories....Pages 557-565
Analytic Diffraction Corrections to Ultrasonic Scattering Measurements....Pages 567-586
Time-Domain First Born Approximation to Elastodynamic Backscatter from Composite Materials....Pages 587-594
Leaky Rayleigh Waves in the Presence of Loading and Stiffening Layers....Pages 595-600
Numerical Calculations of Ultrasonic Fields....Pages 601-610
Elastic Wave Scattering from Rough Surfaces and Cracks....Pages 611-624
Theoretical and Experimental Developments in Ultrasonic Evaluation of Periodic Surfaces....Pages 625-634
A Reliability-Confidence Methodology for Complex Systems....Pages 635-641
Computer Evaluation of Real-Time X-Ray and Acoustic Images....Pages 643-649
Nondestructive Evaluation of Low Density Fibrous Ceramics....Pages 651-661
A Technique for the Nondestructive Detection of Voids and Composition Anomalies in Metal Matrix Composite Wires Using X or γ Rays....Pages 663-679
Nondestructive Evaluation of the Thermal Cycling Effects on Graphite/Aluminum Precursor Wire....Pages 681-694
Quantitative Attenuation and Velocity Measurements in Metal Matrix Precursor Wires....Pages 695-704
Nondestructive Evaluation of Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 705-727
Nondestructive Inspection and Evaluation of Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 729-746
Application of Fourier Elastodynamics to Direct and Inverse Problems for the Scattering of Elastic Waves from Flaws Near Surfaces....Pages 747-776
Wave Scattering by Obstacles in Joined Fluid-Solid Half Spaces....Pages 777-793
Measurements of Ultrasonic Scattering from Near-Surface Flaws....Pages 795-812
Scattering by Flaws in a Slab or a Half-Space....Pages 813-831
Effects of Microstructure on the Speed and Attenuation of Elastic Waves: Formal Theory and Simple Approximations....Pages 833-850
On the Estimation of Porosity in Composites by Oblique Angle Illumination....Pages 851-866
Elastic Wave Scattering from Multiple Voids (Porosity)....Pages 867-882
Backscattering of Ultrasonic Leaky Waves from Liquid-Solid Interfaces....Pages 883-895
An Inverse Problem in Viscoelasticity....Pages 897-905
Inverse Ray Tracing in Anisotropic Elastic Solids....Pages 907-922
On Nonspecular Reflection of Bounded Beams for Layered Half Spaces Under Water....Pages 923-936
The Maximum Entropy Formulation of Inverse Problems of NDE....Pages 937-947
The Inverse Born Approximation: Exact Determination of Shape of Convex Voids....Pages 949-959
Elastic Wave Inversion Transformation....Pages 961-974
The Automation of the Born Inversion for Ultrasonic Flaw Sizing....Pages 975-987
Estimation of the Boundary of an Inclusion of Known Material from Scattering Data....Pages 989-994
Ultrasonic 3-D Reconstruction of Inclusions in Solids Using the Inverse Born Algorithm....Pages 995-1018
Evaluation of Photoacoustic Microscopy Fatigue Crack Detection....Pages 1019-1028
Thermoacoustic NDE Imaging Induced by Deeply Penetrating Radiation....Pages 1029-1038
Quantitative Measurement and Imaging of Metal Fatigue....Pages 1039-1053
Geological Fracture Mapping Using Electromagnetic Geotomography....Pages 1055-1063
Progress on Ultrasonic Flaw Sizing in Turbine Engine Rotor Components: Bore and Web Geometries....Pages 1065-1096
Crack Mapping by Ray Methods....Pages 1097-1116
Classification of NDE Waveforms with Autoregressive Models....Pages 1117-1126
Rough Surface Effects of Aluminum Castings on Ultrasonic Sizing Algorithms....Pages 1127-1139
On the Effects of a Finite Aperture on the Inverse Born Approximation....Pages 1141-1158
Optimization of Pulsed Eddy Current Probes....Pages 1159-1172
A Model of Eddy-Current Probes with Ferrite Cores....Pages 1173-1185
Evaluation of a Novel Eddy-Current Probe for Detecting Cracks Inside and at the Edges of Holes....Pages 1187-1202
Application of the Electric Current Perturbation Method to the Detection of Fatigue Cracks in a Complex Geometry Titanium Part....Pages 1203-1217
The Change in Impedance of a Single-Turn Coil Due to a Flaw in a Coaxial Conducting Cylinder....Pages 1219-1236
Electric Current Perturbation Calculations for Half-Penny Cracks....Pages 1237-1254
The Mathematical Analysis of Electromagnetic Fields around Surface Cracks in Metals....Pages 1255-1268
Eddy Current Characterization of Applied and Residual Stresses....Pages 1269-1286
Acoustoelasticity: Scanning with Shear Waves....Pages 1287-1294
The Effect of Texture on Acoustoelasticity....Pages 1295-1308
Residual Stress Characterization by Use of Elastic Wave Scattering Measurements....Pages 1309-1326
Evaluation of Residual Stress States Using Horizontally Polarized Shear Waves....Pages 1327-1338
Absolute Determination of Stress in Textured Materials....Pages 1339-1354
The Use of the Temperature Dependence of Ultrasonic Velocity to Measure Residual Stress....Pages 1355-1365
Detection of Strain Induced Microstructural Changes in Aluminum (6061-T6) Using Ultrasonic Signal Analysis....Pages 1367-1379
The Use of Acoustic Signal Attenuation in the Examination of Residual Strains: Part B — The Use of Experimentally Derived Acoustic Strain Correlations in the Evaluation of Residual Strains and Stresses....Pages 1381-1387
Energy Release Rates for Various Defects....Pages 1389-1397
Ultrasonic Determination of Grain Size in Uranium....Pages 1399-1409
Finding Through NDE the Thermal History and Metallurgical Status of a Heat Treatable Aluminum Alloy....Pages 1411-1417
Fiber Optics for a Damage Assessment System for Fiber Reinforced Plastic Composite Structures....Pages 1419-1430
Ultrasonic Steel Cleanliness System....Pages 1431-1436
A Portable High Speed Ultrasonic Imaging System....Pages 1437-1453
The Clamping Force of Heat Shrinkable Fittings....Pages 1455-1466
Energy Dispersive K X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis for On-Line Process Control of Heavy Metal Concentrations....Pages 1467-1471
A Computational Tool for the Design of Ultrasonic Systems....Pages 1473-1485
The Digital Ultrasonic Instrument....Pages 1487-1500
Inversion of Eddy Current Signals in a Nonuniform Probe Field....Pages 1501-1526
Eddy-Current Imaging for Defect Characterization....Pages 1527-1540
Defect Characterization of a Multifrequency Eddy Current System....Pages 1541-1554
Development of a System to Invert Eddy-Current Data and Reconstruct Flaws....Pages 1555-1571
Imaging and Characterization of Defects with Digital Signal Processing of Ultrasonic Data....Pages 1573-1595
Determination of Flaw Depth Profiles from Acoustic Images....Pages 1597-1609
Subsurface Broadband Acoustic Microscopy of Solids using Aperture Lenses....Pages 1611-1623
High Resolution Arma Model Reconstruction for NDE Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 1625-1641
Precision Measurement of Rayleigh Wave Velocity Perturbation....Pages 1643-1652
Real Time Signal Processing in an Ultrasonic Imaging System....Pages 1653-1668
A Shear Wave Transducer Array for Real-Time Imaging....Pages 1669-1678
Development of an Acoustic Model for Multilayered NDE....Pages 1679-1696
Ultrasonic Signal Processing for Multilayered NDE....Pages 1697-1709
Cure Monitoring of Thermosetting Polymers by an Ultrasonic Technique....Pages 1711-1729
Interferometric Techniques Using Embedded Optical Fibers for the Quantitative NDE of Composites....Pages 1731-1738
A Computerized Ultrasonic Scanning Bridge for Defect Imaging: Composite Materials....Pages 1739-1748
Noncontacting Measurement of Surface Acoustic Waves....Pages 1749-1762
Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Using Laser Transducers....Pages 1763-1782
Nondestructive Evaluation with Beamforming Transducer Arrays....Pages 1783-1795
Thermoelastic Structures for High Density Ultrasonic Energy....Pages 1797-1806
Ultrasonic Transducer Standards....Pages 1807-1824
Back Matter....Pages 1825-1853