Accession Number:

ADA114419

Title:

Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Production Armor Plate Welds

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Sep 1980-Sep 1981

Corporate Author:

GARD INC NILES IL

Personal Author(s):

• Groenwald, R. A.
• Mathieson, T. A.
• Kedzior, C. T.

Report Date:

1981-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

85.0

Abstract:

The work reported herein is the Phase 2 of a planned 3-Phase program to establish Acoustic Emission AE as a means to inspect armor plate welds, to provide a means of overcoming the intrinsic disadvantages of the standard weld inspection techniques of radiography and ultrasonics. The first program phase, completed in October 1979, established the feasibility of using AE for this application by monitoring the laboratory welding of armor plate with the controlled induction of critical flaws.

Descriptors:

• *ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS
• *ARMOR PLATE
• *INSPECTION
• *NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
• *PRODUCTION
• DEFECTS(MATERIALS)
• LABORATORY TESTS
• MANUFACTURING
• MONITORING
• RADIOGRAPHY
• ULTRASONIC TESTS
• WELDS

Subject Categories:

• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems
• Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
• Armor
• Acoustics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE