Time of flight difraction - an alternate non-destructive testing procedure to replace traditional methods

• Main Author: Koyickal Gopalan Prabhakaran.
• Other Authors: Wong, Brian Stephen
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/5894
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Time-of-flight-diffraction Technique (TOFD) is potentially one of the fastest methods of Non-destructive testing (NDT) since a weld can be characterized to a certain degree with one single traverse along its length with two probes. Data is stored in a digital format with a single vertical ‘scan’ lin...