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A poor substitute

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The notch is a commonly used type of fabricated flaw in ultrasonic testing of welded joints of small and intermediate thicknesses. The tale is about how some experts attempted inconsiderately to do without it and what resulted from this.

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  1. Central Research Institute of Heavy Machinery, Moscow, Russia

    I. N. Ermolov

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Ermolov, I.N. A poor substitute. Russ J Nondestruct Test 36, 535–537 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759438

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