This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment. The book discusses advanced academic research results and their application to industrial procedures. The text covers the choice and generation of the signals energizing the system to probe position optimization, from quality assessment evaluation to tomographic inversion. With a focus to deepen a number of fundamental aspects involved in the specific objective of designing and developing an ultrasonic imaging system for nondestructive testing, aimed to automatically classify the entire production of an industrial production line, targeted to the field of precision mechanics. The contents of this book is the result of the common effort of six University Research Groups that focused their research activities for two years on this specific objective, working in direct conjunction with primary industrial firms, in a research project fu
nded by the Italian government as a Strategic Research Project.
Introduction: Generalities on Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing Systems and organization of the book.- Describing the Ultrasonic System at a physical level: Modelling and Simulation.- Improving the Ultrasonic Systems Performance: Signal Processing Tools.- Dealing with the collected data: Information Processing.- Real world applications of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Systems: industrial application issues.
