Resonant Scattering and Crack Sizing
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
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Theoretical consideration of ultrasonic scattering from interior cracks has received considerable attention in recent years. These studies have led to scattering amplitude computations for ultrasonic backscatter from circular cracks by the method of optimal truncation (MOOT) (1, 2) and by T-matrix techniques (3). A key observation in these results is that a peak in the magnitude of the scattering amplitude is found to occur at approximately ka = 1, where k is the longitudinal wave number and a the crack radius, which is independent of the scattering direction. Up to the present, however, adequate experimental verification of these findings have been impossible due to a lack of suitable laboratory samples.