In the aviation industry, non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques play an essential role in minimizing costs and keeping people safe. Safety is important in every industry, but especially so in ...

Everything has a quality control process to ensure its safety and integrity. Everyday items and large infrastructure are continually subjected to wear and tear, causing damage and erosion, while the ...

Well-established regulations have been used worldwide to certify the mechanical characteristics of advanced materials like polymer nanocomposites across different industries. To establish a ...

It’s commonly known that products need to be tested before they’re available for use. Across all industries, different mechanical components and materials need to undergo rigorous testing to ensure ...

Non-destructive testing (NDT) in civil engineering has been widely developed to evaluate the properties of material, component or system of infrastructures for identifying the internal defects without ...

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz.-- In an old proverb, a battle was lost because a horseshoe lacked a small nail that seemed insignificant. In a modern day combat theater, a microscopic crack or bit of metal ...

Scientists designed a new, non-destructive method for estimated leaf area index (LAI) in vegetable crops. The experiments analyzed digital images obtained with a commercial camera with open-source ...

A sampling system applicable for costly and destructive inspection is presented. For the case of defectives, selection of the system using binomial model is furnished. Comparison is made with existing ...