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Nondestructive testing

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Development Of An Ultrasonic Nde&T Tool For Yield Detection In Steel Structures, Yilmaz Bingol Jan 2008

Development Of An Ultrasonic Nde&T Tool For Yield Detection In Steel Structures, Yilmaz Bingol

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Nondestructive Evaluation and Testing (NDE&T) is a commonly used and rapidly growing field that offers successful solutions for health assessment of structures. NDE&T methods have gained increasing attention in the last few decades especially with the contribution of the advancements in computer and instrumentation technologies. The applications of numerous NDE&T methods in civil engineering mostly focus on material characterization and defect detection. Techniques for nondestructively identifying the stress state in materials, on the other hand, mostly rely on the Theory of Acoustoelasticity. However, the sensitivity and the accuracy of acoustoelasticity are affected by several factors such as the microstructure of …