Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is critical in ensuring safety and reliability, areas easily compromised if not monitored with a broad range of necessary tools and techniques. Locating concealed ...

Like an X-ray is used to see inside the human body, non-destructive testing (NDT) can be a powerful and effective means of understanding a bridge’s structural integrity without damaging the ...

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is the name given to the family of techniques that can investigate materials or components without damaging them or impairing their function. The main applications of NDT ...

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) include a wide range of analysis techniques that use electromagnetic radiation, sound wave, and other signals to assess the properties of a material, component or system ...

The IRT Jules Verne and its partners Airbus, Axiome, Daher, Testia and CEA List have just completed the Fantom project, a collaborative programme devoted to the automation of non-destructive testing ...

In the aviation industry, non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques play an essential role in minimizing costs and keeping people safe. Safety is important in every industry, but especially so in ...

Well-established regulations have been used worldwide to certify the mechanical characteristics of advanced materials like polymer nanocomposites across different industries. To establish a ...

An IAEA technical cooperation course on non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques for the evaluation of civil structures, held recently in Quito, Ecuador, will help countries in the Latin America ...

A single pulse of ultrasound fired into the polymer encapsulant of a TO-247 device travels through the polymer at a speed around 3,000 m/s. Its mission is to characterize any internal material ...

Providing a quality product is the cornerstone of any successful operation. Industry competition in the marketplace has elevated customer expectations and those customers now insist that certain ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California’s tallest bridge, the Foresthill ...