Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications

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Features

  • Comprehensive overview of nondestructive evaluation (NDE).
  • Includes examples that are based on real world applications and problems.
  • Gives the reader experience in making repair vs. retirement decisions regarding equipment.
  • Summary

    Describing NDE issues associated with real-world applications, this comprehensive book details conventional and forthcoming NDE technologies. It instructs on current practices, common techniques and equipment applications, and the potentials and limitations of current NDE methods. Each chapter details a different method, providing an overview, an explanation of the fundamental physical laws governing the method, the inspection techniques and typical equipment used in it's application, final system integration of transducers, supporting instrumentation, commonly practiced procedures necessary for viable NDE inspection, examples of how the method can be applied, and end-of-chapter problems.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction to NDE, P.J. Shull
    Liquid Penetrant, F.A. Iddings and P.J. Shull
    Ultrasound, P.J. Shull and B.R. Tittmann
    Magnetic Particle, A. Lindgren, P.J. Shull, K. Joseph, and D. Hagemaier
    Eddy Current, P.J. Shull
    Acoustic Emission, W.H. Prosser
    Radiology, H.E. Martz, Jr., C.M. Logan, and P. J. Shull
    Active Thermography, J.W. M. Spicer and R. Osiander
    Microwave, A.J. Bahr, R. Zoughi, and N. Qaddoumi
    Optical Methods, D.D. Duncan, J.L. Champion, K.C. Baldwin, and D.W. Blodgett
    Index