English | 2020 | ISBN-13: 978-1260441437 | 815 Pages | PDF | 319.46 MB

A fully updated guide to nondestructive product testing practices and standards

This up-to-date resource covers the latest methods for examining materials without destroying them or altering their structure. The book offers comprehensive details on the background, benefits, limitations, and applications of each technique. You will discover how to perform effective tests, interpret results, and formulate accurate decisions based on your findings. Ideal both as a textbook and as a study guide for the ASNT certification exam, this book clearly discusses visual, ultrasonic, and thermal infrared testing―and much more.

Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation, Third Edition, covers:

• Discontinuities―origins and classification

• Visual testing

• Penetrant testing

• Magnetic particle testing

• Radiographic testing

• Ultrasonic testing

• Eddy current testing

• Thermal infrared testing

• Acoustic emission testing

• Digital radiography

• Ultrasonic phased array testing

• Ultrasonic guided wave inspection

• Shearography nondestructive testing