MT306

Non Destructive Testing and Failure Analysis

 

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Visual examination, Basic principles of liquid penetrant testing and Magnetic particle testing. Radiography - basic principle, electromagnetic radiation sources, radiographic imaging,   inspection   techniques, applications, limitations and safety.  

 

Eddy current testing - principle, application, limitation; ultrasonic testing - basic properties of sound beam, transducers, inspection methods, flaw characterisation technique, immersion testing, advantage, limitations; acoustic emission testing.

 

Leak testing, Holography and Thermography - principles, procedures and applications, Comparison and selection of NDT methods; defects in casting, forging, rolling and others.

 

Failure analysis methodology, tools and techniques of failure analysis, failure data retrieval, procedural steps  for investigation of a failure for failure analysis; types of failure and techniques for failure analysis.

 

Some case studies of failure analysis, Introduction to quality management, concept of ISO9000, ISO14000, QS9000; Inspection, inspection by sampling.

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       Baldevraj, Jayakumar T., Thavasimuthu M., ‘Practical  Non-Destructive Testing’,  Narosa Publishing, 1997

2.       Das A. K., ‘Metallurgy of Failure Analysis’,  TMH, 1992

 

REFERENCES

 

1.         Colangelo V. A., ‘Analysis of Metallurgical Failures’, John Wiley, 1985

2.             Suryanarayana, ‘Testing of Metallic Materials’, Prentice Hall India, 1979