Currently, building industry uses non-destructive testing methods primarily for evaluation of concrete quality. Efficiency of ultrasonic pulse method (UPM) was proved in order to determine compressive strength of solid bricks (concrete, calcium silicate and burnt ones). Parameters obtained from UPM testing (such as ultrasonic pulse velocity, dynamic modulus of elasticity) are affected by shape/...

Different signal processing and image reconstruction techniques are applied in ultrasonic non-destructive material evaluation. In recent years, rapid development in the fields of microelectronics and computer engineering lead to wide application of phased array systems. A new phased array technique, called “Sampling Phased Array” has been developed in Fraunhofer Institute for non-destructive te...

A-scans from ultrasonic testing of long shafts are complex signals, thus the discrimination of different types of echoes is of importance for non-destructive testing and equipment maintenance. Research has focused on selecting features of physical significance or exploring classifier like Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines. This paper summarizes and reports on our comprehens...

The objective of this work is to study the influence of the moulding conditions of manufacture on the mechanical behaviour of the composites, when which they are submitted to mechanical loading. In order to evaluate the quality of interfacial adhesion, two non-destructive testing procedures were combined. Laser ultrasonic was employed to evaluate the state of the composite microstructure depend...