10.14489/td.2018.10.pp.004-018

2018, 10 October

DOI: 10.14489/td.2018.10.pp.004-018

Kozlov А. V., Pichugin N. K., Samokrutov А. А., Shevaldykin V. G.
FIELDS OF APPLICATION AND PRINCIPLE TYPES OF TRANSDUCERS WITH DRY POINT CONTACT IN ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
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Abstract. The paper reviews methods of application of transducers with dry acoustic contact which are intended for ultrasonic testing along with historical retrospective of their development. Modern types of transducers with dry point contact which allow solution of up-to-date problems of tomography of concrete structures and metal pipe ultrasonic control without coupling liquid are considered. Only two dry point contact transducers give the opportunity to measure the near surface ultrasound velocities, which are directly connected to the elastic properties of the studied material. Dry point contact transducers and ultrasonic arrays consisting of them allow one to construct effective devices for nondestructive testing of concrete, plastics, composites and other materials which are hard cases for conventional ultrasonic testing techniques. The most known applications include thickness measuring of concrete structures, flaw and iron reinforcement detection in the structuresand tomographic imaging of concrete objects. The perspective of higher frequency dry point contact transducer construction and applications in ultrasonic testing of metals with good resolution is also outlined in the presented work.

Keywords: dry point contact transducers, ultrasonic testing.

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A. V. Kozlov, N. K. Pichugin, A. A. Samokrutov, V. G. Shevaldykin (Acoustic Control Systems, Ltd., Moscow, Russia) E-mail: kav@acsys.ru, pichugin@acsys.ru, samokrutov@acsys.ru, shev@acsys.ru

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