Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, 4 Teile: Volume 2A / Volume 2B

'Section 1: Introduction.- The Middle Ground of the NDE R&D Spectrum.- Considerations for Quantitative NDE and NDE Reliability Improvement.- Section 2: Reliability.- Probabilistic Consequences of Imperfect NDE.- Evaluating POD/CL Characterizations of NDE Reliability.- Improving NDE through Multiple Inspections.- Section 3: Probability of Detection - Ultrasonics.- Ultrasonic Flaw Detection in Turbine Rotor Component Web Geometries.- Detection of Flaws below Curved Surfaces.- Attenuation and Grain Noise Parameters in Ni-Base Alloys.- Computer Simulation of Probability of Detection.- Section 4: Probability of Detection - Eddy Currents.- Eddy-Current Probe Design.- Eddy Current Probe Design and Matched Filtering for Optimum Flaw Detection.- Development of an Eddy Current Inspection Technique for Sleeved Engine Disk Bolt Holes.- Analysis and Design of Eddy-Current Measurement Systems.- Section 5: Weldments.- An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Ultrasonic Weld Evaluation.- Finite Element Modeling of Ultrasonic Inspection of Weldments.- High Frequency, Angle Beam EMATs for Weld Inspection.- An Analysis of Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer Arrays for Nondestructive Evaluation of Thick Metal Sections and Weldments.- Progress in Nondestructive Fatigue Crack Detection and Monitoring in Welded Pressure Vessels Subjected to External Pressure Cycling.- Section 6: Closure Effects in Fatigue Cracks.- Effects of Crack Closure on Ultrasonic Transmission.- Simulation of Closure: Effects on Crack Detection Probability and Stress Distributions.- Detection of Closed Internal Fatigue Cracks.- Section 7: Technology Transfer.- Inventors and Investors: Technology Transfer by Personal Chemistry.- Inverse Technology Transfer: Development Opportunities Defined from Practice.- Section 8: Ultrasonic Scattering Theory.- Diffraction of Horizontally Polarized Shear Waves by Normal Edge Cracks in a Plate.- Wavefront Fields in the Scattering of Elastic Waves by Surface-Breaking and Sub-Surface Cracks.- Comparison of Matrix Methods for Elastic Wave Scattering Problems.- Section 9: Acoustic Emission.- Development of Acoustic Emission Methods for In-Flight Monitoring of Aircraft Structures.- Identification of Acoustic Emission Sources by Pattern Recognition Techniques.- Pattern Recognition Analysis of Acoustic Emission Data from 7075-T651 Simulated Joint Specimens.- Acoustic Emission Linear Pulse Holography.- Effect of Crack Presence on In-Flight Airframe Noise in a Wing Attachment Component.- A Miniature Optical Acoustic Emission Transducer.- Section 10: Ultrasonic Scattering, Reliability and Penetrating Radiation.- Application of Ultrasonic Spectroscopy to Scattering of Rayleigh Wave in a Half-Space.- The Transmission/Scattering of Elastic Waves by a Simple Inhomogeneity: A Comparison of Theories.- Analytic Diffraction Corrections to Ultrasonic Scattering Measurements.- Time-Domain First Born Approximation to Elastodynamic Backscatter from Composite Materials.- Leaky Rayleigh Waves in the Presence of Loading and Stiffening Layers.- Numerical Calculations of Ultrasonic Fields.- Elastic Wave Scattering from Rough Surfaces and Cracks.- Theoretical and Experimental Developments in Ultrasonic Evaluation of Periodic Surfaces.- A Reliability-Confidence Methodology for Complex Systems.- Computer Evaluation of Real-Time X-Ray and Acoustic Images.- Nondestructive Evaluation of Low Density Fibrous Ceramics.- Section 11: Metal Matrix Composites.- A Technique for the Nondestructive Detection of Voids and Composition Anomalies in Metal Matrix Composite Wires Using X or ? Rays.- Nondestructive Evaluation of the Thermal Cycling Effects on Graphite/Aluminum Precursor Wire.- Quantitative Attenuation and Velocity Measurements in Metal Matrix Precursor Wires.- Nondestructive Evaluation of Metal Matrix Composites.- Nondestructive Inspection and Evaluation of Metal Matrix Composites