Sizing technique for slots and surface cracks in metals
Journal Article
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· Materials Evaluation
OSTI ID:64346
- Inst. of Nuclear Energy Research, Lung-Tan (Taiwan, Province of China)
- Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins (United States)
After a crack on a metal surface has been detected, determining its width, depth, and length becomes an important practical issue for fracture analysis and repair considerations. Having used a novel microwave technique for surface crack detection, two methods for sizing are introduced, namely a single frequency and a swept frequency method. The tradeoff between these two techniques is between hardware simplicity and high measurement accuracy, particularly when determining crack depth. The details of these two techniques are given with several numerical and experimental results. The width of a crack is shown to be measured within {+-}20 percent. However, the crack depth, the most important parameter in crack sizing, is shown to be measured with an accuracy of better than 1 percent, independent of the accuracy of the width measurement, using the swept frequency technique.
- OSTI ID:
- 64346
- Journal Information:
- Materials Evaluation, Journal Name: Materials Evaluation Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 53; ISSN MAEVAD; ISSN 0025-5327
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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