EM 350 Term Paper
Here are a few ideas for term paper topics. You can get some idea of what is going on in
NDE by looking at past volumes of the Review of Progress in Quantitative
Nondestructive Evaluation, D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti, Eds, 1981 –present.
Copies are in the library. Other sources are listed below.
The term paper should be on an NDE topic or a very closely related area. If you are
already doing some NDE work, by all means use it. If you have any questions on the
suitability of a topic, ask me.
The paper should be, say, 10-20 pages in length and include a statement of purpose at the
beginning and a set of conclusions and references at the end.
Ultrasonics
Ultrasonic sensors and their applications
Electromagnetic-Acoustic Transducers (EMATS)
Laser ultrasound
Ultrasound for materials characterization
Visualization of ultrasound
Time of Flight diffraction flaw detection and sizing
Air-coupled ultrasound
Acoustic Emission
Time-reversal imaging
Ultrasonic inspection of composites
Eddy Currents
Pulsed eddy currents
Eddy currents for materials characterization
Remote field eddy current inspection
Multi-frequency eddy current methods
Radiography
X-ray sensors (other than film)
Real time radiography
Computer-aided Tomography
X-rays for material characterization
Other Topics
Microwave NDE
Magnetic methods for NDE
Interfacing NDE to material reliability (POD, fracture and fatigue)
Uses of modern pattern recognition methods (neural nets etc.) for flaw characterization
Sources of Information
Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, D.O. Thompson and D.E.
Chimenti, Eds., Vols. 1-21, 1981-present
Materials Evaluation
NDT&E International
British Journal of NDT
Soviet Journal of NDT
Research in Nondestructive Evaluation
Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation
Ultrasonics
Wave Motion
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control