Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems: Recent submissions
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Special Issue: Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Special edition editors and QNDE 2020 organizers are grateful to Editor-in-Chief Professor Tribikram Kundu, ASME journal publication staff, reviewers, and authors for making this publication possible.The final selected ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The Editor and Editorial Board of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing ... -
Modeling Ultrasonic Elastic Waves in Fiber-Metal Laminate Structures in Presence of Sources and Defects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a modeling and simulation method for studying ultrasonic guided wave propagation in hybrid metal-composites, also known as fiber-metal laminates. The objective is to develop an efficient and versatile ... -
Measurement of Natural Vibrations and Resonant Second Higher-Harmonics Due to a Fatigue Crack
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Nonlinear ultrasonic testing is considered a more promising technique for evaluating closed cracks than conventional ultrasonic testing. However, the mechanism of the generation of nonlinear ultrasonic waves has not been ... -
Model-Based Study of a Metamaterial Lens for Nondestructive Evaluation of Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Composites are being increasingly used in various industries due to their lower cost and superior mechanical properties over traditional materials. They are nevertheless vulnerable to various defects during manufacturing ... -
An Improved Damage Index for Nondestructive Evaluation of a Disbond in Honeycomb Sandwich Structure Using Guided Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Honeycomb sandwich structures (HSS) are widely used in the aerospace industry due to their high strength-to-stiffness ratio. However, these materials are susceptible to damage during manufacturing or service that can cause ... -
Azimuthally Scanned Angled-Beam Pulse-Echo Ultrasound for Characterization of Impact Damage in Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Characterization of barely visible impact damage (BVID) in polymer matrix composites (PMCs) is necessary to use slow crack growth damage tolerance models and evaluate remaining life of PMC components. Azimuthally scanned ... -
Ultrasonic Thickness Measurements Using Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Thickness measurements using an ultrasonic contact test is a well-known nondestructive evaluation technique. However, its implementation in a robotic system with a closed-loop feedback control for artificial intelligent ... -
Effect of Conical Profile on the Transmission of Elastic Waves From Cylindrical Waveguide to Bulk
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper studies the transmission of elastic waves into test specimens for cylindrical waveguide-based ultrasonic transducers. However, to achieve better mode focusing, topographical waveguides with conical profiles were ... -
Enhanced Ultrasonic Imaging and Non-Destructive Evaluation Using Angle-of-Arrival Estimation in Dimension-Reduced Beam Space
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Robust defect detection in the presence of grain noise originating from material microstructures is a challenging yet essential problem in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation (NDE). In this paper, a novel method is ... -
Ultrasonic Flaw Recognition by Multi-Angle Phased Array Data Integration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study presents a method of ultrasonic flaw identification using phased array ultrasonic inspection data. Raw data from each individual channel of the phased array ultrasonic inspection are obtained. The data trimming ... -
Eddy Current Array Inspection of Damaged CFRP Sandwich Panels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The use of eddy current (EC) arrays to detect damage in sandwich panels, such as disbonding of the carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) face-sheet to the core, is investigated. It is shown that the array is very sensitive ... -
Laser Wavelengths Suitable for Generating Ultrasonic Waves in Resin-Coated Carbon Fiber Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)For the non-destructive inspection of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), lasers can be used to generate ultrasonic waves. It is important to optimize the wavelength of the laser to ensure the intense excitation of a ... -
Fault Diagnostics of Roller Bearings Using Dimension Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Rolling bearings accomplishes a smoother force transmission between relative components of high production volume systems. An impending fault may cause system malfunction and its maturation lead to a catastrophic failure ... -
A Model-Based Study of Transmit-Receive Longitudinal Arrays for Inspection of Subsurface Defects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Dual matrix transmit-receive longitudinal (TRL) arrays have been shown to provide an improved signal to noise ratio in the near field zone which makes them the most suitable array configuration for the inspection of ... -
Toward Comprehensive Industrial Computed Tomography Image Quality Assessment: I. Phantom Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)When comparing the performance of different industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) systems, reconstruction algorithms, or scan protocols, it is important to assess how well the required inspection and measurement tasks ... -
A Novel Model-Based Framework for Power Consumption Prognosis in Multirotors Applied to the Battery End of Discharge Prognostics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Accurately estimating the time of battery end of discharge (EOD) in electric unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provides assurance that a given mission can be completed before the energy stored in the battery runs out and ... -
Digital Sequence and Virtual Path Construction-Based Impact Imaging Method for Onboard Monitoring of Aerospace Composite Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Because of the rapidly growing use and poor impact resistance of composite materials, impact monitoring of composite structures has become more and more important, especially for aerospace engineering applications. Among ... -
Investigation on Tomographic-Based Nondestructive Characterization of Short Glass Fiber-Reinforced Composites as Obtained From Micro Injection Molding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Quantitative assessment of fiber characteristics in composite parts is of great significance in order to correlate them with the fiber-induced mechanical properties. X-ray computed tomography (CT) is being successfully ... -
Decomposition Method to Detect Fatigue Damage Precursors in Thin Components Through Nonlinear Ultrasonic With Collinear Mixing Contributions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Cyclic loading of mechanical components promotes the formation of dislocation substructures in metals as precursors to crack nucleation leading to final failure of the metallic components. It is well known within the ...