Application of Nondestructive Testing Techniques to Materials Testing.

Abstract

A range of fundamentally new optical nondestructive techniques has been demonstrated for measurements of surface defects, range, surface profiles and acoustic and thermal displacements of a surface. A wide aperture acoustic beam has been demonstrated to measure range to a far greater accuracy than with conventional NDT systems using short pulses. The range resolution of such a lens is comparable to a wavelength while that for a short pulse system is, at best, two or three wavelengths. Optical methods, developed during the program, have been successful in measuring film thicknesses to an accuracy of an order if 200A.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA172005

Entities

People

  • Gordon S. Kino

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Optical Materials
  • Optics
  • Silica Glass
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Thin Films
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.