Nondestructive Testing (NDT): Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2025) | Viewed by 647
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural health monitoring; lamb waves; signal processing
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Dear Colleagues,
Nondestructive testing (NDT) is a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component, or system without causing damage. With the development of large-scale structures (e.g., wind turbine blades) and complex materials (e.g., anisotropic carbon fiber-reinforced plastic materials) in fields such as aviation, aerospace, energy, and transportation, the inspection performance of traditional NDT methods is limited. In order to advance the development of NDT, technologies and applications of different NDT methods need to be further studied, including ultrasonic testing, acoustic emission testing, eddy current testing, radiographic inspection, infrared thermographic testing, etc. Specific innovative work on these NDT methods includes the development of new transducers, signal processing algorithms, the visual characterization of damage, damage localization, the quantitative evaluation of damage, etc. In summary, the research goal is to overcome the limitation of traditional methods and promote the development of NDT. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Ultrasonic testing;
- Acoustic emission testing;
- Eddy current testing;
- Radiographic inspection;
- Infrared thermographic testing.
Dr. Jiadong Hua
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nondestructive testing
- large-scale structure
- composite material
- signal processing
- damage localization
- damage quantitative evaluation
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