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Nondestructive methods for material property determination
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Nondestructive
Methods
for Material
Edited by Clay Olaf Ruud and Robert
Property
Determination
E. Green, Jr.
Plenum Press, New York-London 1984
While published in 1984, the volume has only reached this reviewer recently. The book constitutes proceedings of a S~posium held April 6-8, 1983 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The town is known as a location of a large chocolate factory, but effects of this on the Symposium were not detected, The contributions have been arranged into seven sections: X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering techniques; eddy current and electric conductivity applications; magnetic, ultrasonic and analytical techniques for stress and cold work indication; general ultrasonic considerations and applications; ultrasonic microstructural characterization of crystalline metals ultrasonic characterization of amorphous metals, polymers and composites; acousto-elastic effect of stress in aluminium and steel. We know that for a long time crystalline metals dominated the structural materials. We also know that ultrasonic methods dominated the nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques. The organizers of the Symposium (J.L. Parker, D.H. Pai, J.R. Quinn, H. Vanderveldt, R.N. Pangborn and S.G. Wax) as well as the editors deserve praise for their evident effort to also cover amorphous metals, polymers and composites, as well as experimental techniques other than acoustic. The volume contains about 30 contributions. C.O. Ruud talks about uses of a position sensitive scintillation detector in X-ray diffractometry of metals. K. Masubuchi deals with the important problem of residual stresses M.S. Good and J.L. Rose evaluate ultrasonic pulse-echo in real structures. angulation technique for measuring thin case depths in hardened steel. In a stimulating way, H.N.G. Wadley and R. Mehrabian discuss the understanding needed for the use of the acoustic emission methods in in-process monitoring and microstructure control during metals processing. S.R. Buxbaum and R.E. Green Jr. report on ultrasonic characterization of titanium weldments combined with density, SEM and hardness testing. H.T. Hahn develops a model for interpretation of ultrasonic results obtained in monitoring cure process These are only some examples of useful contributions constituting of epoxies. the volume. At the National Forum on the Future of Automated Materials Processing organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 1985 in Santa Barbara, California, the need for more on-line and inservice inspection of materials was stressed repeatedly. Your reviewer contributed to it a definition of near-to-line testing, providing data in time so short that feedback to and substantially affecting the ongoing process is possible. The book under review deals with tools for inspections of Thus, the importance of the book is going to increase in the these types. Apart from professionals in industry, teachers and graduate students future. in the materials field will find the volume useful. Witold
Brostow
Nondestructive
Methods
for Material
Edited by Clay Olaf Ruud and Robert
Property
Determination
E. Green, Jr.
Plenum Press, New York-London 1984
While published in 1984, the volume has only reached this reviewer recently. The book constitutes proceedings of a S~posium held April 6-8, 1983 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The town is known as a location of a large chocolate factory, but effects of this on the Symposium were not detected, The contributions have been arranged into seven sections: X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering techniques; eddy current and electric conductivity applications; magnetic, ultrasonic and analytical techniques for stress and cold work indication; general ultrasonic considerations and applications; ultrasonic microstructural characterization of crystalline metals ultrasonic characterization of amorphous metals, polymers and composites; acousto-elastic effect of stress in aluminium and steel. We know that for a long time crystalline metals dominated the structural materials. We also know that ultrasonic methods dominated the nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques. The organizers of the Symposium (J.L. Parker, D.H. Pai, J.R. Quinn, H. Vanderveldt, R.N. Pangborn and S.G. Wax) as well as the editors deserve praise for their evident effort to also cover amorphous metals, polymers and composites, as well as experimental techniques other than acoustic. The volume contains about 30 contributions. C.O. Ruud talks about uses of a position sensitive scintillation detector in X-ray diffractometry of metals. K. Masubuchi deals with the important problem of residual stresses M.S. Good and J.L. Rose evaluate ultrasonic pulse-echo in real structures. angulation technique for measuring thin case depths in hardened steel. In a stimulating way, H.N.G. Wadley and R. Mehrabian discuss the understanding needed for the use of the acoustic emission methods in in-process monitoring and microstructure control during metals processing. S.R. Buxbaum and R.E. Green Jr. report on ultrasonic characterization of titanium weldments combined with density, SEM and hardness testing. H.T. Hahn develops a model for interpretation of ultrasonic results obtained in monitoring cure process These are only some examples of useful contributions constituting of epoxies. the volume. At the National Forum on the Future of Automated Materials Processing organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 1985 in Santa Barbara, California, the need for more on-line and inservice inspection of materials was stressed repeatedly. Your reviewer contributed to it a definition of near-to-line testing, providing data in time so short that feedback to and substantially affecting the ongoing process is possible. The book under review deals with tools for inspections of Thus, the importance of the book is going to increase in the these types. Apart from professionals in industry, teachers and graduate students future. in the materials field will find the volume useful. Witold
Brostow