Papers by Keyword: Quantitative Nondestructive Testing

Abstract: Recently, quantitatively nondestructive testing (QNDT) is becoming an accepted concept in some industries and scientific research areas. The combination of shearing speckle interferometry (SSI) and mechanical models is employed to quantitatively estimate defect characteristic parameters (DCP), such as coordinates, size, embedding depth, etc. However, quantitative calculation of DCP relies on the actual displacement slope in the mechanical models, but the slope in SSI is represented by the difference of displacements between the two neighboring points with a distance, i.e. the shearing amount. This leads to a deviation in calculating DCP. This paper will investigate the deviation of the relative displacement and derivate displacement introduced by the shearographic approximation in cases of two deformation models, one is a thin circular plate and the other a spherical pressure shell under the pressure loading. Two kinds of defects, a cavity and a crack, are embedded in the structures and their deformations are calculated by FEM.

Abstract: Quantitative nondestructive testing (QNDT) is required for the in-service inspection of high-cost structures whose failure could lead tragic consequences. The optical methods are widely used for NDT and NDE. However, most of them base on the qualitative detection of the partial fringes induced by the defects. The defect characteristic parameters (DCPs), such as coordinates and types, are easily obtained, but it is difficult to obtain other parameters, e.g. the defect size and embedded depth due to the non-unique relation between the DCPs and the deformation of detected defects. In this paper, the optical method, design optimization and FEM are combined to accomplish QNDT. Three types of defects are inspected and their DCPs values are obtained quantitatively. Moreover, factors that influence detection accuracy of the DCPs are also discussed.