Volume 17 describes the tools and techniques used in nondestructive evaluation and what they reveal about the integrity and operating potential of engineered materials and components.

ASM Handbook, Volume 17 helps readers select, use, and interpret methods used to nondestructively test and analyze engineered products and assemblies. Digital technology is transforming the implementation of NDE and is covered extensively. New case studies and examples illustrate specific NDE techniques and give new insights that are needed to provide the data needed to solve many real-world NDE problems, to understand and measure early degradation, and to give the required data for remaining safe life or prognostic prediction.

Contents

INTRODUCTION TO NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION
Guide to Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques
Probability of Detection
Reliability of Flaw Detection by Nondestructive Inspection
Nondestructive Evaluation and Life Assessment

VISUAL EXAMINATION AND OPTICAL INSPECTION TECHNIQUES
Visual Inspection
Machine Vision and Robotic Inspection Systems
Liquid Penetrant Inspection
Magnetic-Particle Inspection

THERMAL METHODS
Thermal Nondestructive Evaluation Methods
Surface-Excited Thermography
Vibrothermography
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis

SONIC AND ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES
Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Inspection
Basic Inspection Methods (Pulse-Echo and Transmission Methods)
Ultrasonic Transduction (Transducer Elements)
Phased Array Ultrasound
Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers for Nondestructive Evaluation
Laser-Ultrasonics—Principles and Industrial Applications
Guided Wave Testing
Rayleigh Wave Nondestructive Evaluation for Defect Detection and Materials Characterization
Sizing with Time-of-Flight Diffraction
Ultrasonic Imaging and Sizing
Nonlinear Ultrasonics
Acoustic Microscopy
Acoustical Holography
Acoustic Emission Inspection

RADIOGRAPHY
Principles of Radiography
Film Radiography
Digital Imaging–Real-Time, Computed, and Digital Radiography
Computed Tomography

ELECTROMAGNETIC INSPECTION TECHNIQUES
Eddy-Current Inspection
Microwave- and Millimeter-Wave Inspection
Micromagnetic Techniques

NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
Nondestructive Evaluation of Pressed and Sintered Powder Metallurgy Parts
Nondestructive Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Metallic Parts
Nondestructive Inspection of Steel Bar, Wire, and Billets
Nondestructive Inspection of Tubular Products
Magnetic Barkhausen Noise for Nondestructive Inspection of Gears
Nondestructive Evaluation of Solid-State Welds
Nondestructive Inspection of Adhesive-Bonded Joints
Nondestructive Testing of Composites (Polymer- and Metal-Matrix Composites)

REFERENCE INFORMATION
Standards and Codes for Nondestructive Testing