Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998 Volume 17A/17B Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Series, Vol. 17

These Proceedings, consisting of Parts A and B, contain the edited versions of most of the papers presented at the annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation held at University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, on July 27 to August 1, 1997. The Review was organized by the Center for NDE at Iowa State University, in cooperation with the Ames Laboratory of the USDOE, the American Society of Nondestructive Testing, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Science Foundation IndustrylUniversity Cooperative Research Centers. This year's Review of Progress in QNDE was attended by approximately 370 participants from the US and many foreign countries who presented a total of approximately 350 papers. As usual, the meeting was divided into 36 sessions with four sessions running concurrently. The Review covered all phases of NDE research and development from fundamental investigations to engineering applications and inspection systems, and methods of inspection science from acoustics to x-rays. The Review continues to experience some fluctuations in size, mostly under pressure from a decrease in funding for NDE research at the US Federal level, but increased participation from foreign laboratories has more than made up the difference. The Review is ideally sized to permit a full-scale overview of the latest developments in a collegial atmosphere that most participants favor. The opening plenary session this year concentrated on advances in imaging technologies and methodologies that have been made in recent years. Dr. K.

SPECIAL TOPICS: Fatigue Damage and Its Nondestructive Evaluation: An Overview; O. Buck. STANDARD TECHNIQUES: Elastic Wave Scattering/Backscattering: Multiple Scattering Calculations by Born Series Integral Equations; M. Kitahara, K. Nakagawa. Guided Waves and Applications: Characteristics of the Reflection of Lamb Waves from Defects in Plates and Pipes; M. Lowe. Eddy Currents: Modeling Eddy Current Crack Signals of Differential and Reflection Probes; N. Nakagawa, et al. X-Rays and Computed Tomography: Quantitative X-Ray Inspection; F. Retraint, et al. Thermal Wave Imaging: Toward a Flat-Bottom Hole Standard for Thermal Imaging; H.I. Ringermacher, et al. Acoustic Emission and Applications: Rapid Calculation of Lamb Waves in Plates Due to Localized Sources; D. Guo, A. Mal. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Laser/Optical Ultrasonics: Affordable NDE of Aerospace Composites with Laser Ultrasonics; T.E. Drake, et al. Microwaves: SIGNAL PROCESSING AND IMAGE ANALYSIS: Signal Processing: Imaging and Reconstruction: NDE SENSORS AND FIELDS: UT Sensors, Transducers, and Fields: Electromagnetic Sensors: 133 Additional Articles. Index.