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Article: Sound practices: ultrasonic gaging advances: innovations in digital signal processing software enable new capabilities for nondestructive ultrasonic thickness gaging in the factory. (Software & Analysis).
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- Quality
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- March 1, 2002
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For more than 50 years, quality control practitioners have relied upon ultrasonic techniques as a way to nondestructively gage the thickness of manufacturing materials. In the early days, these measurements often required a series of complex calculations by the users of ultrasonic measuring devices. But in recent years, relentless miniaturization in digital computing power has led to portable, user-friendly ultrasonic instruments that allow near instantaneous readings of material thickness, while also providing on-board data-logging and networking capabilities.
Now the field of ultrasonic nondestructive testing (NDT) is taking another step forward. Thanks to ...