Ultrasonic Testing
Introduction
- Basic Principles of Ultrasonic Testing
- History of Ultrasonics
- Present State of Ultrasonics
- Future Direction of Ultrasonic Inspection
- Ultrasound and Ultrasonic Testing
- Angle Beam Testing
- Immersion Ultrasonic Testing
Transducers and Other Equipment
- Piezoelectric Transducers
- Characteristics of Piezoelectric Transducers
- Radiated Fields of Ultrasonic Transducers
- Transducer Beam Spread
- Transducer Types
- Transducer Testing
- Transducer Testing II
- Transducer Modeling
- Couplant
- Pulser-Receivers
- Tone Burst Generators in Research
- Arbitrary Function Generators
- Electrical Impedance Matching and Termination
- Data Presentation
- Error Analysis
Measurement Techniques
- Normal Beam Inspection
- Angle Beams I
- Angle Beams II
- Crack Tip Diffraction
- Automated Scanning
- Precision Velocity Measurements
- Attenuation Measurements
- Spread Spectrum Ultrasonics
- Signal Processing Techniques
- Flaw Reconstruction Techniques
Calibration Methods and Formulas
- Calibration Methods
- Distance Amplitude Correction (DAC)
- Thompson-Gray Measurement Model
- Ultrasonic Simulation - UTSIM
- Grain Noise Modeling
- References and Standards
- Ultrasonic Inspection Formulas
Some Applications
Techniques with Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers- Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers (EMATs)
- Lamb Wave Generation with EMATs
- Shear Wave Generation with EMATs
- Velocity Measurements with EMATs
- Texture Measurement with EMATs I
- Texture Measurement with EMATs II
- Ultrasonic Measurement of Stress
- Composite Inspection with EMATs
Quiz
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