Preface p. IX
Organisation p. XI
Keynote lectures
Damage characterization and real-time health monitoring of aerospace structures based on ultrasonic microscopy and nonlinear acoustics T.E. Matikas p. 3
NDE of micro structured materials by X-ray diffraction and refraction topography M.P. Hentschel and K.-W. Harbich and B.R. Muller and A. Lange and J. Schors and O. Wald p. 15
Use of state of the art parametric arrays for low frequency measurements in sound absorbing porous materials B. Castagnede and A. Moussatov and D. Lafarge and V. Tournat and V. Gusev p. 23
Optical techniques
Crack sizing using laser vibrometer measurements of Surface Acoustic Waves R. Longo and S. Vanlanduit and P. Guillaume p. 33
Non-destructive evaluation of composite structures using an innovative Bragg sensor G. Luyckx and J. Degrieck and W. De Waele and W. Van Paepegem and J. Vlekken and T. Verbeke p. 39
New possibilities and applications of Lockin-Speckle-Interferometry for non-destructive testing of polymers P. Menner and H. Gerhard and G. Busse p. 45
Investigation of fatigue cracks using digital image correlation S. Vanlanduit and J. Vanherzeele and R. Longo and P. Guillaume p. 53
Monitoring of a curved beam test structure using Bragg sensors G. Luyckx and J. Degrieck and I. De Baere and W. De Waele and W. Van Paepegem and T. Verbeke p. 59
The use of optical fibers for fatigue testing of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics I. De Baere and G. Luyckx and W. Van Paepegem and J. Degrieck and E. Voet and J. Vlekken p. 65
Illumination direction factor in quantitative shearography NDT analysis W.S. Wan Abdullah p. 71
Ultrasound
Advanced transducer development for long range ultrasonic inspection systems A.G. Haig and P.J. Mudge and T-H. Gan and W. Balachandran p. 79
Damage assessment of composites after fatigue by means of acoustic methods T.T. Assimakopoulou and T.P. Philippidis p. 83
New opportunities in acoustic NDT using frequency conversion by nonlinear defects K. Pfleiderer and I. Solodov and G. Busse p. 89
Monitoring of damage accumulation in cyclic loaded c/c woven composites using the acousto-ultrasonics approach T.H. Loutas and V. Kostopoulos p. 95
Non-destructive testing of fuel tanks using long-range ultrasonics L. Mazeika and R. Kazys and R. Raisutis and A. Demcenko and R. Sliteris and C. Cantore p. 99
Guided acoustic modes for testing surface layers of unconsolidated granular media X. Jacob and V. Aleshin and V. Tournat and O. Dazel and J.-F. Allard and V. Gusev and P. Leclaire and W. Lauriks p. 105
Thin layers characterization by low frequency ultrasonic transmission R. Mittal and G. Rus p. 113
Laser ultrasonics for non-contact materials characterization of fiber reinforced materials P. Burgholzer and C. Hofer and B. Reitinger and H.P. Degischer and D. Loidl and P. Schulz and R. Nuster and G. Paltauf p. 121
Investigation of mode conversion in ultrasonic air-coupled non-destructive testing R. Kazys and A. Demcenko and L. Mazeika and R. Sliteris and E. Zukauskas p. 129
Air-coupled ultrasonic pitch-catch method for material inspection E. Blomme and D. Bulcaen and F. Declercq and J. Deveugele and P. Lust p. 137
Improvement of performance of scanning acoustic microscope for on-line inspection of electronic components L. Mazeika and R. Kazys and O. Tumsys and C. Gartside p. 145
Acoustic emission
Damage discrimination of composites based on wavelet decomposed acoustic emission signals G. Kalogiannakis and D. Van Hemelrijck p. 153
Risk assessment of tunnels by Quantitative Acoustic Emission Non-Destructive method G. Muravin and L. Lezvinsky and B. Muravin p. 161
Quantitative Acoustic Emission Non Destructive Inspection method and its application to risk assessment high energy piping, fossil nuclear and chemical plants B. Muravin and G. Muravin and L. Lezvinsky p. 167
The application of cepstrum and kurtosis analysis as predictive maintenance tools in vibration and acoustic emission signals obtained from reciprocating machinery S.C. Kerkyras p. 171
Thermal methods
A fast and robust method for determining thermal diffusivity images in complex geometries G. Mayr and G. Hendorfer and G. Zauner and F. Puchberger p. 179
Deep Level Photo-Thermal Spectroscopy J. Xia and A. Mandelis p. 187
Thermal characterization of composite materials by grating IR thermography G. Kalogiannakis and H. Zhang and C. Glorieux and J. Ravi and S. Longuemart and D. Van Hemelrijck p. 193
Ultrasound Sweep Thermography (UST) as a new method of non-destructive testing C. Spiessberger and A. Gleiter and G. Busse p. 199
Non-contact case depth monitoring of industrial hardened parts using laser infrared photothermal radiometry A. Mandelis and J.A. Garcia and C.-H. Wang p. 205
Portable computed tomographic system for in-situ inspection of industrial pipelines J. Abdullah and G.H.P. Mohamad and M.A. Hamzah and M.S.M. Yusof and M.F.A. Rahman and F. Ismail p. 211
Radiography and tomographic methods
Synchrotron-Refraction-Computed-Tomography for NDT and characterisation of lightweight composite materials B.R. Muller and A. Lange and M. Harwardt and M.P. Hentschel and B. Illerhaus and J. Goebbels and J. Bamberg and F. Heutling p. 217
Non-destructive testing with terahertz radiation: Applications in the field of polymer fabrication and food production C. Jordens and F. Rutz and S. Wietzke and M. Koch p. 223
Direct iterative reconstruction of computer tomography trajectories (DIRECTT) A. Lange and M.P. Hentschel and J. Schors p. 229
Characterization of automotive parts by a novel multi-scan tomography system M. Simon and I. Tiseanu and C. Sauerwein and M. Sindel and R. Kauermann and J. Schmidt p. 237
NDT with Optical Coherence Tomography: A novel tool for material characterization D. Stifter and E.I. Breuer and M. Wurm and K. Wiesauer and M. Pircher and E. Gotzinger and C.K. Hitzenberger and R. Engelke and G. Ahrens and G. Grutzner p. 243
Electro-magnetic techniques
Defect detection using a non-contact electric potential drop method for multilayer carbon composite materials P. Stiffell and R.J. Prance and W. Gebrial and C.J. Harland and H. Prance p. 251
Lift-off and edge effects in micro-magnetic testing of heat-treated steel C45 J. Grum and P. Zerovnik p. 257
An electromagnetic non-invasive examination technique of Bjork-Shiley Convexo-Concave prosthetic heart valve: Degradation modeling and periodic clinical controls optimization using Markov model R. Grimberg and A. Savin and R. Steigmann and S.C. Chan and L. Udpa and S.S. Udpa and F. Pinte p. 263
Electrical resistance measurement on carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics with rivets as electrodes I. De Baere and W. Van Paepegem and J. Degrieck p. 269
Subsurface imaging using moving electromagnetic fields and surface acoustic waves G. Mook and F. Michel and J. Simonin and M. Kruger and M. Luther p. 275
Inverse problem for the EC transducer with rotating magnetic field; application to pressure tubes inspection for PHWR nuclear power plant R. Grimberg and A. Savin and R. Steigmann and L. Udpa and S.S. Udpa and A. Bruma p. 281
EddyCation-the all-digital eddy current tool for education and innovation G. Mook and J. Simonin p. 289
NDT of civil engineering structures
Damage characterization of deteriorated concrete structures by stress wave methods D.G. Aggelis and T. Shiotani p. 297
Improving results of thermographic inspections of electrical transmission and distribution lines J. Snell and J. Renowden p. 303
Structural health monitoring in civil engineering-applications using wireless sensor networks C.U. Grosse and M. Kruger p. 313
Ultrasonic nondestructive through transmission testing of concrete A.A. Shah and Y. Ribakov p. 319
Special techniques and applications
The effect of defects on the strength of adhesively-bonded joints and its significance for NDT R.D. Adams and E.F. Karachalios p. 327
Comparison of different X-ray computed tomography techniques for the quantitative characterization of the 3D microstructure of pear fruit tissue P. Verboven and H. Mebatsion and F. Mendoza and K. Temst and M. Wevers and B. Nicolai and P. Cloetens p. 331
Identification of the mechanical material parameters through inverse modelling S. Cooreman and D. Debruyne and S. Coppieters and D. Lecompte and H. Sol p. 337
Fused sensor scanning system for non-destructive testing of metal matrix composites V. Shinde and T. Valatka and J. Donahue and D. Ozevin and V.F. Godinez-Azcuaga and R. Finlayson and B.B. Raju and A. Anastasopoulos p. 343
Ultrasound and eddy current data fusion for evaluation of carbon-epoxy composites delaminations R. Grimberg and R. Steigmann and S. Leitoiu and A. Andreescu and A. Savin p. 349
Constitutive models for solids containing rough cracks: From micro to macro V. Aleshin and K. Van Den Abeele p. 357
Author index p. 365