Potential Opportunities For Optical Technologies In Army Quality Assurance And Nondestructive Evaluation

George A. Darcy

doi:10.1117/12.957019

8 May 1971 Potential Opportunities For Optical Technologies In Army Quality Assurance And Nondestructive Evaluation

George A. Darcy

Proceedings Volume 0170, Optics in Quality Assurance II; (1971) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957019
Event: Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1979, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

There are many opportunities for the potential use of optical techniques in nondestructive testing in the Army. However, there has been relatively little use of optical approaches in NDT which has traditionally favored instead, X-ray, ultrasound, eddy current, magnetic techniques, and penetrants. The large number of items procured in some Army systems requires automated and high rate testing systems with which optical approaches can be very compatible. The basic principles of optics could be applied to NDT requirements in a number of Army applications including testing of large composite panels, frame alignment, elimination of mechanical gages, and NDT of large structural load-carrying assemblies and bridges.

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George A. Darcy "Potential Opportunities For Optical Technologies In Army Quality Assurance And Nondestructive Evaluation", Proc. SPIE 0170, Optics in Quality Assurance II, (8 May 1971); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957019

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