The interpretation of da ta from nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques is a tedious and time-consuming manual process that is subject to such random variables as sc an quality, and inspector expertise and fatigue. The authors are researching methods to automatically recognize defects in ultrasonic images of aircraft structures. A typical wing skin image with an annotated defect is shown in...

Leaky-Rayleigh waves have been studied extensively at liquid-solid interface in the last 30 years [1-4]. Both leaky-Rayleigh and leaky-Lamb waves have found many application in Nondestructive Evaluation, e.g. surface defect characterization, etc [5,6]. Because of the difficulties associated with ultrasonic wave generation and detection in air in the megaHerz region air coupled non destructive e...

All surfaces and interfaces between dissimilar materials are rough. The extent to which this roughness affects the reflection of elastic waves has been the subject of study for many decades. A recent book by Ogilvy [1] provides a comprehensive review and summary of this subject. The problem is of particular interest in ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation. For example, it has been shown that fo...

Achieving the mechanical properties of steels after various manufacturing and heat treatment processes is significant and essential. In production lines, after producing the specific and standard samples, mechanical properties have been measured by destructive processes which cause waste of cost and time. In addition, destructive techniques cannot detect the miniscule changes made in mechanical...

Ultrasonic measurements of materials are usually obtained from an electrical conversion of an acoustic signal by a transducer. ln this paper, a conventional (phase sensitive) transducer and a new phase insensitive acoustoelectric converter called an AEC are contrasted. In particular, the AEC is shown to exhibit superior characteristics for many typical experi~nts and appears to have many applic...