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Fig 1: A full-scale resonance test with a modified two-probe system shown below.
Summary
1.
Growth of fatigue cracks can be monitored and tracked in real-time using array ultrasonic
techniques
2.
The data is a plot of the crack size at specific times during the fatigue test and the
gradient of this plot gives the growth rate of the crack at any given time, as given in Figure
2. This result provides insight into the nature of the material and the variable rate of the
crack growth, presenting valuable input to failure models
3.
The video frame rate and the repetition frequency of the instrument can be adapted to
measure growth rate even at the fast fracture period at the end
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Fig 2: Graph showing the growth of the fatigue crack measured using the position of the crack tip from the
phased array ultrasonic image
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