Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods (Paperback)

Section 1: Introduction 1. Quality Assurance 2. Significance of Non-Destructive Testing

Section 2: Methods of Non-Destructive Testing a. Imaging Techniques 3. Optical Microscope 4. Polarised Microscope 5. Atomic Force Microscope 6. Scanning Electron Microscope 7. Scanning Probe Microscope 8. Transmission Electron Microscope 9. Fluorescence Microscope 10. Computed Tomography 11. Ultrasonography 12. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 13. Eddy Current Sensing and Imaging 14. RF and THz Imaging b. Elemental Assay/ Mapping 15. X-ray Diffraction Spectroscopy 16. Fourier Transform Spectroscopy 17. Raman Spectroscopy 18. UV Spectroscopy 19. NMR Spectroscopy 20. X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy 21. Mass Spectrometry 22. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy 23. Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy 24. Auger Electron Spectroscopy 25. Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy 26. Dielectric Spectroscopy 27. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy c. Large Scale Facility 28. Synchrotron 29. Neutron 30. Strain gauge 31. Displacement with LVDT and ASM 32. Scanning laser Doppler vibrometer 33. Ultrasound scanning d. Multi scale analysis 34. Atomic scale to macro-mega scale 35. Macro molecular simulation e. Advanced analysis 36. Integrative non-destructive testing 37. Comparison of different modality of non-destructive testing 38. Internet/Cloud based non-destructive testing

Section 3: Standards 39. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 40. British Standards Institution (BSI) 41. Deutsches Institute fur Normen (DIN) 42. Standards Association of Australia (SAA) 43. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 44. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 45. Other standards 46. Future perspective of non-destructive testing