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Laboratory nondestructive evaluation technology for materials characterization

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This paper summarizes advances in ultrasonic and magnetic technologies for materials characterization that have recently occurred in the research laboratory and appear to have the potential to impact technology gaps of concern to the energy production industry. Included are discussions of the possibilities that one can characterize structure, such as grain size and dislocations, properties, such as fracture toughness, degradation mechanisms, such as creep, fatigue, and hydrogen attack, as well as the stresses which drive many of the degradation mechanisms. Throughout the discussions, careful attention is given to differentiating those quantities which are fundamentally related to the nondestructive evaluation response, and those which are related by empirical correlations. Included is a discussion of future work needed to further develop these technologies.

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Thompson, R.B. Laboratory nondestructive evaluation technology for materials characterization. J Nondestruct Eval 15, 163–176 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732043

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