Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Systems: Industrial Application Issues

✍ Scribed by Pietro Burrascano, Sergio Callegari, Augusto Montisci, Marco Ricci, Mario Versaci (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment. The book discusses advanced academic research results and their application to industrial procedures. The text covers the choice and generation of the signals energizing the system to probe position optimization, from quality assessment evaluation to tomographic inversion. With a focus to deepen a number of fundamental aspects involved in the specific objective of designing and developing an ultrasonic imaging system for nondestructive testing, aimed to automatically classify the entire production of an industrial production line, targeted to the field of precision mechanics. The contents of this book is the result of the common effort of six University Research Groups that focused their research activities for two years on this specific objective, working in direct conjunction with primary industrial firms, in a research project funded by the Italian government as a Strategic Research Project.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Waves Propagation....Pages 3-15
Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation....Pages 17-45
Modeling Ultrasounds for Nondestructive Testing Applications....Pages 47-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-84
Excitation and Deconvolution in Ultrasound Nondestructive Testing Systems....Pages 85-140
Excitations and Signal Processing for Multiprobe Setups....Pages 141-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Standard Soft Computing Techniques for Characterization of Defects in Nondestructive Evaluation....Pages 175-199
Innovative Fuzzy Techniques for Characterizing Defects in Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation....Pages 201-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Ultrasonics for the Diagnosis of a Trachite Stone Wall....Pages 235-244
Industrial Applications: Ultrasonic Inspection of Large Forgings....Pages 245-258
Fuzzy Geometrical Techniques for Characterizing Defects in Ultrasonic Non-destructive Evaluation....Pages 259-269
Industrial Applications of Noncontact Ultrasonics Techniques....Pages 271-295
Ultrasonic Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave for Range Estimation....Pages 297-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-324

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks; Acoustics; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk