Instrumentation Development for Crack Detection of Surface and Subsurface Defects in Green-State P/M Compacts Through Multiprobe Electric Resistivity Testing
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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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Over the past two years an electrostatic instrumentation approach has been pursued whereby direct current is injected into green-state powder metallurgy (P/M) compacts followed by subsequent recording of the voltages on the surface. Owing to the fact that P/M specimens are moderate to low conducting samples, even small currents can produce a significant voltage distribution across the surface that can be recorded by an array of sensing probes arranged in a planar or non-planar configuration [1–4]. The presence of flaws, manifesting themselves in conductivity contrasts, can be sensed as a different voltage distribution when compared to the unflawed baseline voltage response.