A New Radiographic Corrosion Inspection Capability

Abstract

Corrosion of equipment and material costs the Armed Forces billions of dollars each year. A need currently exists for a cost-effective nondestructive inspection tool able to detect corrosion within military equipment. Dual-Energy Radiography was proposed as a potential NDE corrosion inspection method. A program was undertaken to construct a preprototype dual- energy scan system. An effective dual-energy detector system was designed and fabricated, dual-energy software was coded, and a complete dual-energy system also capable of laminography was constructed. The results of this program are a fully operational preprototype Dual-Energy/Laminography system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 1988
Accession Number
ADA231476

Entities

People

  • James H. Stanley
  • Robert N. Yancey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aeronautical Laboratories
  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Corrosion
  • Corrosion Inhibition
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Radiography
  • Software Development
  • X Rays
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Facility/Structural Engineering.
  • Medical Imaging.