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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 277-286 
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    Keywords: Ultrasonics ; through-transmission ; composite materials ; attenuation ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The steady-state amplitude of the output of an ultrasonic through-transmission measurement is analyzed and the result is given in closed form. Provided that the product of the input and output transduction ratios, the specimen-transducer reflection coefficient, the specimen-transducer phase-shift parameter, and the material phase velocity are known, this analysis gives a means for determining the through-thickness attenuation of an individual thin sample. Multiple stress-wave reflections are taken into account, and so signal echoes do not represent a difficulty. An example is presented for a graphite fiber epoxy composite (Hercules AS/3501-6). Thus, the technique provides a direct method for continuous or intermittent monitoring of through-thickness attenuation of plate structures which may be subject to service structural degradation.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 55-63 
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    Keywords: ultrasonics ; Rayleigh waves ; subsurface defects ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract An ultrasonic inspection method is used to obtain the circumference of a subsurface hole and the depth of the hole below the surface. A pitch-catch Rayleigh wave transducer set-up was used to launch a Rayleigh surface wave at the flaw and to capture and record the scattered waves. The frequency spectrum of the scattered waves can be used to obtain the depth of the hole. The ligament of material between the hole and the surface is sent into resonance, and this feature can be extracted from the scattered waves' frequency spectrum. The frequency is a function of the ligament length; thus the hole depth can be obtained. The circumference of the hole is found from a time of flight measurement. A Rayleigh wave is formed that travels around the hole's surface. The length of time required for the wave to travel around the hole is a measure of the circumference.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 65-76 
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    Keywords: crack measurement ; ac field technique ; arbitrary skin depth ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A general solution is given to describe the ac field around surface-breaking cracks for arbitrary values of the ratio of skin depth δ to crack depthd. This solution allows accurate interpretation of crack depth from voltage readings taken by a Crack Microgauge instrument in cases where δ andd are comparable. It is shown to agree with asymptotic formulae obtained for the cases where δ/d is very small and very large. Provided that the probe length Δ is large compared with δ, the calculations show that a very good approximation to the crack depth may be obtained, irrespective of the ratio δ/d, by using the thin-skin asymptotic formula $$d = \frac{1}{2}\Delta (V_2 - V_1 )/V_1 $$ whereV 1 andV 2 are probe voltages registered at positions just off and across the crack, respectively. The problem is solved for a crack of infinite aspect ratio which has no opening, but it can be applied with confidence at the centerline of cracks of fairly large aspect ratio.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 99-109 
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    Keywords: thermography ; infrared scanning ; calibration ; inverse problems ; cavity detection ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract An approach for treating nondestructive testing as the solution of inverse problems in mathematical physics has been used for the detection of cavities. The approach is developed based on the use of an additional boundary condition of scanned temperature on the surface to solve for the cavity geometry. For the present study, the condition at the cavity side is taken to be that of a specified temperature, and the experiment is carried out to meet this condition. Two specimens are tested in this paper, a plane slab and a rectangular prism. In both bodies the cavity is rectangular in shape. For the testing of the plane slab, the method is able to detect the cavity wall with high accuracy, whereas the cavity depth error is larger (6%). The detection of the cavity position in the rectangular prism has an error ranging from −9.7 to 7.7%. Errors in the experiment are attributed to the uncertainties in the measurements of temperature and the Biot number. The former is read off from the analog data output of the infrared scanner. The latter is not measured separately, but is computed from the scanned data and thus becomes a portion of the total nondestructive testing output. A final note is also made in this paper to relate how the presented method can be used in actual practice.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 175-182 
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    Keywords: ultrasonic wave scattering ; inclusions ; reciprocity ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract This paper, as part of a series on elastic wave scattering, presents results of measurements and calculations on scattering of ultrasonic waves by a solid spherical inclusion (tungsten carbide) embedded in titanium alloy by the diffusion bonding process. Both direct scattering and mode-converted scattering angular distributions are reported for shear and compressional incident waves. The consequences upon the signals when transmitter and receiver were interchanged are explored in a reciprocity rule.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 263-276 
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    Keywords: Ultrasonics ; scattering ; diffraction ; defect characterization ; cracks ; voids ; pattern recognition ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Shape and size are the most important defect characteristics that need to be determined for the reliable prediction of the remaining service lifetime of a defective structure or part. The analytical and supporting experimental results presented in this paper concern a general, pattern recognition-based, ultrasonic defect identification and sizing method. The satellite-pulse technique (SPT) is based on the interpretation, in terms of defect types (shapes) and dimensions, of the separation in time of arrival between the readily detected specularly reflected pulse and its generally ignored tip-diffracted or tangentially scattered “satellite” contained in the received waveform. Calibration procedures were also developed that enable the ultrasonic examiner to read the time scale of the oscilloscope for equivalent crack depth or void diameter as appropriate.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 19-24 
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    Keywords: ac potential difference ; eddy current ; fatigue crack measurement ; skin effect equation ; large skin depth ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract This paper considers the solution of the skin-effect or Helmholtz equation, ∇2ψ=k 2ψ, for the two-dimensional flow of a uniform alternating current perturbed by a plane crack of uniform depth. Herek is the ratio of crack depthd to skin depth δ. When the skin depth is large compared with the crack depth andk f 0, the quasi-static approach to this problem ignores the terms on the right-hand side and constructs solutions from Laplace's equation which are essentially dc solutions and are correct to orderk. In this paper we consider behavior near the limit when the skin depth is large and give solutions which are correct to orderk 2. In an example we relate the results to the interpretation of readings from an ac potential difference instrument applied to the measurement of surface-breaking cracks.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 93-98 
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    Keywords: bounded ultrasonic beam reflectivity ; Rayleigh angle ; beam profile ; surface defects ; nonspecular reflection ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The relationships between characteristics of elastic defects and nonspecular features of bounded ultrasonic beams reflected at the Rayleigh angle from a liquid-solid interface are investigated. The results can serve as a theoretical basis for interpretation of Rayleigh angle nonspecularly reflected beam profiles as characterization of localized surface elastic defects.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 125-136 
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    Keywords: magnetic particle inspection ; magnetic leakage fields ; finite difference method ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Experimental measurements of leakage fields from cylindrical defects were obtained in a geometry which permitted simultaneous measurement of the magnetic induction of the material. The results obtained are compared with calculations using a nonlinear finite difference method. Both the experiments and the calculations indicate that the magnitude of the leakage field continues to grow nearly in proportion with the applied field well into the saturation region of the magnetic material. The implications for magnetic particle inspection are discussed.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 45-53 
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    Keywords: Born approximation ; ultrasonic scattering ; NDE ; time domain
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    Notes: Abstract The time domain Born approximation for ultrasonic scattering from volume flaws in an elastic medium is described. Results are given both for the direct and the inverse problem. The time domain picture leads to simple intuitive formulas, which we illustrate by means of several simple examples. Particular emphasis is given to the front surface echo and its use in reconstructing the properties of the flaw.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 3-9 
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    Keywords: harmonic generation ; fatigue ; microcracks ; aluminum ; surface acoustic waves ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Harmonic generation of surface acoustic waves (SAW) is shown to be a useful tool for the detection of the initiation of surface cracks during fatigue of high strength aluminum alloys. A model that relates the length and density of microcracks to the amplitude of a SAW harmonic signal is described, and an associated coefficient of generation efficiency for the second harmonic amplitude is derived. A correlation between experimentally measured harmonic amplitude and remaining fatigue life is then demonstrated, which allows the mean remaining fatigue lifetime to be estimated to within 5% over the last 50% of the fatigue life for an Al 7075 alloy if the cyclic stress amplitude, but not the duration of fatigue, is known.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 11-19 
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    Keywords: ultrasonic diffraction ; fatigue cracks ; crack closure ; crack surfaces ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract This paper describes an ultrasonic diffraction technique for characterizing fatigue cracks. The angular field of energy scattered from a crack tip was computed. Using the theoretically predicted and experimentally verified optimum range of angles, we measured the crack profiles by the ultrasonic diffraction technique. Ultrasonic measurements agreed very well with direct destructive measurements. In addition, fatigue crack closure was detected and information on crack surfaces was obtained.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 21-36 
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    Keywords: ultrasonics ; surface defects ; defect depth ; deconvolution ; correlation ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract In previous work by the authors,(1,6) it was demonstrated that the presence of near-surface defects could be detected reliably, even though the defect echo was contained within the near-surface echo. The algorithm consists of examining the variation in the composite (near-surface plus defect) response after it has been deconvolved from a near-surface response known to be defect-free. This paper presents two algorithms that have been developed subsequent to the work presented in ref. (6) for estimating thedepth of a near-surface defect, given that its presence has already been detected. One algorithm uses complex frequency domain techniques, and the other uses time domain analysis. Both procedures operate on the surface-plus-defect signal, using reference signals containing surface-only and defect-only responses. The defect signal is extracted from the composite signal. Defect depth is then computed from the time difference between the centers of the front-surface and extracted defect responses. A mean absolute depth error of 0.015 in. was obtained by applying the algorithms to experimental data containing depths from 0.020 to 0.130 in. below the near-surface.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 37-52 
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    Keywords: failure prediction ; accept/reject decisions ; ceramic materials ; ultrasonics ; fracture ; probabilistic model ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A general probabilistic method for reaching accept/reject decisions and failure prediction based on nondestructive evaluation procedures is described. The method is illustrated for ceramic materials that fail by the activation of microcracks located at void surfaces. The inspection procedure used for the analysis is the long wavelength ultrasonic method. The analysis indicates influences on the decision level and on the false-reject probability of variations in the signal-to-noise ratio and in the preexistent void population. The ultrasonic inspection is shown to exert a relatively minor influence on the false-reject probability, even for low signal-to-noise ratios, low stresses, and a widely dispersed void population, because of the intrinsic variability of the selected failure process. More encouraging results concerning the utility of NDE are anticipated to apply to other failure mechanisms in ceramics.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 53-66 
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    Keywords: ultrasonic transducers ; phased array ; ultrasonic imaging ; impulse response ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The present contribution provides a method for the derivation of analytical near- and far-field expressions for the pressure step-function response of nonuniformly excited ultrasonic transducers modeled as pistons of arbitrary shape in an infinite rigid baffle. Explicit inversion of the Laplace transformed ultrasonic field using Cagniard's idea results in elementary functions or definite integrals of elementary functions, depending on the assumed nonuniform aperture distribution. The basic signal distortion is illustrated in terms of three-dimensional space-time plots of the pressure unit step-function response of a rectangular uniform aperture. The corresponding results for a phased-array transducer are also given. In addition, we investigate the pressure profile on the axis perpendicular to a uniform rectangular piston and its horizontal radiation pattern for different bandwidths of the exciting impulse.
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    Keywords: stress fields ; microstructure ; J integral ; stress intensity factor ; harness acoustic velocity ; acoustic elasticity ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A very precise system for measuring two-dimensional velocity fields in solid samples has been used for nondestructive measurements of both externally applied and residual inhomogeneous stresses in solids,J integrals, stress intensity factors of cracks, and hardness of quenched steel. The longitudinal velocity measurement is based on precise determination of the propagation transit time through the stressed solid specimen using a small diameter, water-coupled acoutic transducer, which is scanned mechanically over the sample. Changes in velocity are then related to changes of stress in the sample by the theory of acoustoelasticity. Similar measurements show a high degree of correlation between longitudinal velocity changes and changes in microstructure in steel samples. Applications to problems of solid mechanics and material science illustrate the utility of this nondestructive measuring technique.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 79-85 
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    Keywords: ultrasonic waves ; EMAT ; surface stress ; NDE ; Green's function
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    Notes: Abstract An analysis of the radiation from a body force shows that it is equivalent to the radiation from a series of surface stresses defined by the moments of the body force taken with respect to the depth coordinate. As the body force becomes localized near the surface, the zeroth moment of the force dominates the radiation and is often thought of as an equivalent surface stress. However, under certain conditions, this can vanish, and the other moments must be considered. It is found that, as the order of the moment of a particular force component increases, the resulting radiation patterns alternate between those characteristic of a compressive surface stress and those characteristic of a shear surface stress, which have considerably different angular variations. Results of experiments in the development of EMAT transducers for nondestructive testing that support these results are cited, and important consequences in the design of inspection systems are indicated.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 225-233 
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    Keywords: Acoustic emission ; energy analysis ; composite materials ; strength ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A new technique which uses the output of a true RMS voltmeter to measure the acoustic emission energy output of a transducer is presented. To demonstrate its use in a typical case, this procedure is used to measure acoustic emission energy during tensile tests on [0°/±30°/90°]s glass-epoxy laminate uniaxial and 10° off-axis tensile coupons. The test results were compared with numerical predictions of laminate response and acoustic emission energy. The experiments indicate that acoustic emission energy can be used to indicate the onset of ply and interlaminar failure.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 235-247 
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    Keywords: Ultrasonics ; acoustic waves ; scattering ; diffraction ; defect characterization ; silicon nitride ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The scattering of acoustic waves by different types of spherical defects in a silicon nitride matrix is calculated by using Ying and Truell's scattering theory. The theoretical scattering results are interpreted using a ray tracing approach. Experiments were carried out at a high frequency (150–450 MHz) to characterize defects in silicon nitride. Time and space averaging, Wiener filtering, diffraction, and propagation loss corrections were used to remove the effect of the transducer response and propagation loss in the material from the scattered signal. Our experimental results indicate the presence of a new type of defect in silicon nitride. They give the type and size of voids, cracks, and Si inclusions in good agreement with measurements obtained after sectioning.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 183-188 
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    Keywords: Ultrasonics ; Born inversion ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Quantitative reconstruction of volumetric flaws near a surface of an elastic solid has been carried out experimentally by analyzing the scattered ultrasonic waves. The inverse Born approximation (developed for flaws in bulk materials) was tested for the first time in the determination of the size, shape, and orientation of near-surface flaws. We have studied spherical solid inclusions at various depths below the surface. In addition we examined an approximately 2:1 prolate spheroidal inclusion which was located one major axis below the surface. The determination of the flaw's size, shape, and orientation in terms of an equivalent ellipsoid is realized by performing nonlinear least-squares iteration of the one-dimensional Born inversion results obtained at various scattering directions within a finite aperture. The reconstruction is in good agreement with the actual parameters of the flaw.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 9-17 
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    Keywords: ac potential difference ; probe characterization ; induction effect ; slots ; fatigue crack ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract In the ac field method of crack depth measurement by the Crack Microgauge, the area of the loop formed in the probe gives rise to an induced voltage, which can introduce errors into the depth measurement. In this paper, a method for measuring the probe area is given, and the quality of the probe is thereby characterized. The underlying theory was given previously, and it is applied here to the probe characterization problem. The probe area is determined by two voltage measurements taken on an artificial rectangular flaw machined in an arbitrary metal. By measurements on several such specimens with the same probe, it is confirmed that the area so obtained is a characteristic of the probe and is independent of the specimen material. Thereafter, measurements on various rectangular flaws with probes of different characteristic area were taken, and very good agreement between predicted and real depths was achieved. Both theory and experiments show that probe characterization is of particular importance when this method is used to measure surface crack depths in metals of low permeability such as aluminum.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 37-43 
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    Keywords: eddy current ; impedance ; lift-off ; flaw ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The problem of detection and characterization of a flaw in a conducting half-space using an eddy-current coil oriented parallel to the interface is examined. An expression is derived for a first order approximation for the change in complex impedance due to a flaw located within the conducting medium. The overall impedance is a function of the radius and lift-off distance of the test coil and the conductivity of the material. An analytical expression is derived for the change in impedance as a function of the electric fields at the position of the flaw. It is found to be an integral over the volume of the flaw of the electric fields found with and without the flaw being present. The limiting case of a degenerate point flaw may be examined in greater detail by allowing the field in the presence of the flaw to be approximated by the unperturbed field. For flaws small enough that the field does not vary much over its volume, the field may be even further approximated by using just the value of the field at the position of the centroid of the flaw. Plots are shown to illustrate the behavior of the change in impedance as a function of the radial range of the flaw and the depth of the flaw centroid, using previously derived expressions for the fields for the unflawed case.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 85-91 
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    Keywords: displacement-field ; acoustic radiation ; wave propagation ; absolute velocity ; EMAT ; mode selective ; nonresonant frequency response ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A new electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) is developed that measures velocities and absolute surface displacements in-plane and plane-normal to the direction of wave propagation. This transducer is flexible in shape and design to conform with irregular surfaces and has unique characteristics of nonresonant frequency response. Tests show that the sensitivity of this EMAT can be increased by increasing the applied magnetic field. Because this transducer is mode selective and nonresonent, its response can be related uniquely to the wave motion. This property is highly desirable for research purposes, though generally not wanted in field monitoring situations.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 221-227 
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    Keywords: Radiography ; point-spread function ; corner location ; edge location ; unsharpness ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Two-dimensional imaging properties of locally isotropic and isoplanatic point spread functions are described in a general radiographic context. In particular, the radiographic response to a two-dimensional wedge-shaped object is shown to possess several properties which enable the identification of the wedge corner on the image, thereby alleviating the need for image enhancement techniques. Extensions to the location of flat-edged boundaries are also discussed. The potential dimensioning application of this analysis lies in the precise and objective location of points of interest on radiographs of more complex two-dimensional objects.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 229-239 
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    Keywords: Crack-opening displacement ; crack closure ; ultrasonics ; Kirchoff approximation ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The interaction between rough crack faces is modeled by nonlinear relations between the crack-face tractions and the crack-opening displacements. These relations account for crack closure and for the related resistance to crack-face sliding. The relations are used to investigate reflection and transmission of an incident pulse by an infinite flaw plane. The problem statement is reduced to a set of inhomogeneous nonlinear ordinary differential equations for the displacement discontinuities, [u] and [v], across the flaw plane. These equations have been solved numerically. The reflection and transmission of an incident pulse by a crack with interacting crack faces. Both incident longitudinal and transverse waves have been considered. The loss of specular reflection as compared to a perfect (traction-free) crack is exhibited by specific examples.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 1-8 
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    Keywords: acoustoelasticity ; transverse isotropy ; polycrystalline aggregate ; cubic crystal ; third-order elastic constants ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Acoustoelasticity is an ultrasonic technique which has been used for the determination of active and residual stresses in common structural materials. This paper examines the effect of texture on the acoustoelastic response in polycrystalline bodies. In particular materials which are transversely isotropic aggregates of cubic crystals are studied. The second- and third-order elastic constants of the polycrystal are derived from the elastic properties of the constituent crystals, and the crystalline orientation relative to the body's symmetry axis. The acoustoelastic relations between velocity and deformation are then presented for the aggregate. Finally, evaluation of the acoustoelastic response for several ideal textures using data for aluminum single crystals shows that the response is highly dependent on the texture.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 111-113 
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    Keywords: photoacoustic microscopy ; delamination ; layered structure ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract An adhesive layer, by which a piezoceramic foil is attached to an aluminum membrane for telephone application, is examined in a nondestructive way by thermal waves. The basic principles of the method are outlined, and its detecting power is demonstrated by evaluation of a well-defined delamination.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 147-154 
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    Keywords: finite element modeling ; eddy current ; absolute probe ; steam generator tubing ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Finite element analysis techniques are applied to the problem of predicting signals from an absolute eddy current probe in the tube sheet region of a PWR steam generator for the purpose of optimizing the probe coil geometry and determining the feasibility of using such a probe to characterize the condition of the tube and tube sheet crevice.
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    Keywords: Acoustic harmonic generation ; critical angle acoustics ; fatigue crack detection ; alloy microstructure ; load amplitude ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Alloy grain size is known to influence both the propagation path and the closure stress of surface fatigue cracks in many alloys. The general trend is for the path to be more tortuous and the closure stress to be larger, the larger the grain size. By use of Ti Al-4V and Al 7075-T6, the effects of grain size on the nondestructive detection of surface cracks which might arise from closure stress and path irregularity variables were evaluated. Titanium specimens were inspected using an acoustic harmonic generation technique, and it was discovered that the major source of harmonic signals was grain sized crystallographic cracks. Harmonic signals were larger during fatigue in an 8-µm compared to a 4-µm grain sized alloy, as there were more grain sized cracks in the large grain material. Crack closure was found to be extremely important in determining the reflected acoustic amplitude obtained in inspecting small (100–1000 µm) cracks in Al 7075-T6 using a critical angle technique. Average received amplitudes were an order of magnitude smaller for cracks at zero load than for those opened by a tensile stress. The scatter in the reflected amplitude was also large, apparently as the result of variations in the degree of the closure from crack to crack. For the 7075 material, the important effect of larger grain size was to increase the irregularity of the crack path, making the small cracks more visible acoustically at azimuthal angles not normal to the crack plane.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 3 (1982), S. 137-145 
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    Keywords: jadeite authentication ; 14 MeV neutrons ; jades ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Fourteen MeV neutron activation of jades was used to test the authenticity of jades: to ascertain whether they are genuine jadeite and whether their greenish colour is genuine, both of which are important criteria for the high market value of jadeite. For given activation and measurement conditions of the jades, the gamma-ray spectrum was observed to change as a function of the type of the jades; the counting ratio of the photopeaks from the two most prominent constituent elements varies greatly as a function of the type of the jades. The ratio of counts for the Compton edges of the 1.779 MeV gamma-ray of28Al, from28Si(n,p)28Al reaction, and the 1.434 MeV gamma-ray of52V, from52Cr(n,p)52V reaction, varied as a function of the type of the jades and also as a function of the color. These results can be applied for a fast and nondestructive evaluation of jades.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 101-109 
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    Keywords: ultrasonic transducers ; NDE ; deconvolution ; signal processing
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    Notes: Abstract A major objective of quantitative nondestructive evaluation is to formulate defect detection, classification, and sizing algorithms that are insensitive to variations in transducer characteristics, material type, and defect depth. With the data used in this research, ultrasonic signals were found to vary significantly with changes in the transducer and only secondarily with changes in material and depth. It is shown that the method for minimizing signal variations due to transducer and material changes is to deconvolve the test signal with respect to the transducer response from a reference defect in a block of the same material. Since depth variation primarily affects signal amplitude and has minor impact on shape, detection, classification, and sizing, insensitivity to depth is achieved by avoiding the use of amplitude-dependent parameters. The notion of a “standard transducer” is introduced. Its mathematical properties and methods of realization are given. It is shown how the effects of variability from different test transducers can be removed by signal processing. When these procedures are applied to the test transducer, the effect is to cause it to resemble the standard transducer and, thereby, to place all ultrasonic waveforms on a common basis.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 137-148 
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    Keywords: composite material ; ultrasonic velocity ; ultrasonic attenuation ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The ultrasonic group velocity and attenuation were measured as a function of frequency for longitudinal and shear waves in the Hercules epoxy matrix (3501-6) and in the principal directions of the unidirectional Hercules graphite fiber epoxy composite (AS/3501-6). Tests were conducted in the frequency ranges 0.25–14 MHz and 0.5–3 MHz for longitudinal and shear wave modes, respectively. While the attenuation increased with frequency for all wave modes, the group velocity was independent of frequency for all wave modes. In studying the effects of transducer-specimen interface couplant and pressure, it was found that for each transducer, there exists a frequency-dependent “saturation pressure” corresponding to the maximum output amplitude of the signal.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 149-155 
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    Keywords: acoustic emission ; fracture ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The far-field characteristics of the emission from a theoretical model for the fracture of brittle inclusions are presented in detail. The model is a circular crack growing at constant speed from zero size until it attains a prescribed size. The far-field radiation pattern is the same as that of a simple combination of force doublets, and some qualitative similarities between force doublets and acoustic dipoles are noted. The initial shape of the far-field pulses due to the growing stage and the stopping is determined, but difficulties arise in accounting for the diffraction of a surface wave on the crack faces generated by the stopping of the crack.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 215-224 
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    Keywords: Acoustic emission ; slip ; microcracking ; deformations ; displacement field ; elastic waves ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract The theory of elastic wave emission (i.e., acoustic emission; AE) from damage processes such as slip and microcracking is discussed. Analogous developments in the literature on earth-quake seismology and dynamic dislocation theory are noted and utilized. A general representation of the displacement field of an AE event is given in terms of the double-couple response to a distribution of “moment density tensor” in the source region. Results are specialized to a point source model and to a general far-field analysis of outgoing elastic waves, and conditions for validity of such representations and their low-frequency specializations are noted. Emitted wave fields are compared for tensile opening and slip events, and procedures which might enable the approximate determination of the size or area increase of tensile microcracks are discussed.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 157-181 
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    Keywords: EMAT ; radiation pattern ; transducer ; shear waves ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A Green's function calculation of the far-field radiation patterns of EMATs is presented. The approach is based on (a) closed form expressions for the eddy current and static magnetic field distributions, established by the EMATs, which react to produce the driving Lorentz forces, and (b) a Green's function derived from the steepest descent approximation to the far-field response of an arbitrary surface point force on a half space. Numerical results are presented, illustrating the radiation patterns of the three common EMAT designs. Included are vertically polarized shear waves as radiated by both meander coil and periodic magnet EMATs and horizontally polarized shear waves as radiated by the latter.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 123-136 
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    Keywords: fatigue life ; acoustic surface waves ; NDE ; ultrasonics ; cracks
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    Notes: Abstract The present studies concentrated on predicting the remaining fatigue life for single fatigue cracks in the Paris regime of macrocrack propagation. Acoustic surface waves were used to interrogate the crack during cyclic fatigue. The inversion of the obtained scattering data provided crack depth and crack length as a function of the number of cycles applied in tension-tension fatigue. Auxiliary experiments were conducted to study the acoustic response of the crack to tensile and compressive loads, thought to open and close the crack. The technique may allow for new insights into the physics of the “crack closure” effect.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 201-206 
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    Keywords: fracture mechanics ; noncircular crack ; fatigue life ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract A transfer function that converts an irregularly shaped two-dimensional crack into an equivalent circular crack of equal propagation lifetime is proposed. The methodology extends the exact elliptical to circular crack transfer function to other noncircular cracks with geometries that slightly deviate from the elliptical. Results for rectangular, symmetric dumbbell, and asymmetric dumbbell cracks are presented.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 249-261 
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    Keywords: Ultrasonics ; cracks ; surface roughness ; diffraction ; scattering ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Ultrasonic measurements from rough cracks were carried out using both broad-band and narrow-band methods. An analysis is suggested to determine parameters of the crack quantitatively such as size, shape, rms surface roughness, and distribution function of the surface roughness. Ultrasonic measurements of the parameters compare very well with the actual parameters of the defect.
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    Journal of nondestructive evaluation 1 (1980), S. 287-293 
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    Keywords: Photoacoustic microscopy ; SPAM ; silicon nitride ; surface crack ; turbine vanes ; NDE
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    Notes: Abstract Scanning photoacoustic microscopy (SPAM) was applied to silicon nitride turbine hardware for purposes of detecting fabrication defects. SPAM traces in selected areas of complex-shaped turbine stator vanes were obtained and indicate that surface-crack detection of the order of tens of microns is possible. Means were devised to allow for multiple scans in areas previously inaccessible to other nondestructive techniques capable of detecting defects in the 25- to 100-µm range. The results show that SPAM is applicable to reaction-bonded silicon nitride turbine components and capable of detecting small surface-related defects.
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