Overview
- Brings together the latest research advances in the field of ultrasonic NDE in a unified manner
- Written at a systems-level, integrating detailed coverage of specialized topics while discussing them within an overall system model of an ultrasonic NDE measurement setup
- Incorporates MATLAB examples and exercises which will serve as a useful tool for NDE engineers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book deals with ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) inspections where high frequency waves are used to locate and characterize dangerous flaws (such as cracks) in materials. Ultrasonic NDE flaw inspections involve a very complex combination of electrical, electromechanical, and acoustic/elastic components so that it is important to understand the behavior of those components and their interactions in order to make quantitative flaw measurements. It will be shown that through the use of models and measurements it is now possible to characterize all the elements of an ultrasonic NDE flaw inspection system. Those elements include the pulser/receiver, the cabling, the transducers, and the wave propagation and scattering processes present in an ultrasonic NDE flaw measurement. It will also be demonstrated how to combine models and measurements of those elements to form ultrasonic measurement models which can simulate the flaw signals seen in ultrasonic NDE tests. This comprehensive modeling and measurement capability is described for the first time in this book. There are important engineering applications of this new tech- logy. For example, these ultrasonic models and measurements can be used to design new ultrasonic inspections as well as optimize existing ones. This technology can also help one to extract information on the nature of the flaw present from the measured ultrasonic flaw signals that can then be used to evaluate the safety and reliability of the material being inspected.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Systems
Book Subtitle: Models and Measurements
Authors: Lester W. Schmerr, Sung-Jin Song
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49063-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-49061-8Published: 18 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4315-6Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-49063-2Published: 22 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 602
Topics: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Mechanical Engineering, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Acoustics