Review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation. Vol. 3B

This two-book volume constitutes the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation held in California in 1983. Topics considered include nondestructive evaluation (NDE) reliability, ultrasonics (probability of detection, scattering, sizing, transducers, signal processing, imaging and reconstruction), eddy currents (probability of detection, modeling, sizing, probes), acoustic emission, thermal wave imaging, optical techniques, new techniques (e.g., maximum entropy reconstruction, near-surface inspection of flaws using bulk ultrasonic waves, inversion and reconstruction), composite materials, material properties, acoustoelasticity, residual stress, and new NDE systems (e.g., retirement-for-cause procedures for gas turbine engine components, pulsed eddy current flaw detection and characterization, an ultrasonic inspection protocol for IN100 jet engine materials, electromagnetic on-line monitoring of rotating turbine-generator components). Basic research and early engineering applications are emphasized