Non-Destructive Testing of Materials and Structures

Overview of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Methods of Materials Evaluation

The opening paper of this symposium was dedicated to an overview of the existing state of the practice and the advantages and limitations of non-destructive testing methods for the evaluation of historic materials of construction. The methods discussed in this paper include the state of the practice in visual, rebound, penetration, and ultrasound methods, as well as the physical measurement of ...

Synthetic Focusing Aperture Techniques for Non-destructive Testing of Materials

Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique imaging has became a popular tool in the field of non-destructive testing in the past years. The acquisition procedure consists in collecting the data after activating elements one by one. The reconstructed object is then computed by adding the contribution of each channel, selecting the proper time delay values. It is the principle of the well-known delay ...

Fuzzy Logic in Non Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures

In nondestructive testing to locate the faults we send an ultrasonic signal and measure the resulting vibration at di erent points To describe and combine the uncertainty corresponding to di er ent measurements and fuzzy estimates we used fuzzy logic As a result we get reasonably simple computa tional models which lead to as good fault detection as the known more complicated models I Nondestruc...

Artificial neural networks for non destructive testing of concrete structures

In this paper, the determination of defects in concrete structures using an ultrasound technique is discussed. A diagnostic model for concrete pillars by means of Multi Layer Perceptron neural networks is developed to locate and classify the defects. Finite Elements numerical techniques have been used to model a concrete pillar of specified size (i.e., rectangular cross section and 2 meters in ...

Guidebook on non - destructive testing of concrete structures