Shadows

Although the discontinuities may be seen clearly in the circular C-scan image, the image represents only a projection of discontinuities in a specific direction (i.e., a shadow of overlapping discontinuities). More information of the discontinuities according to location, dimension and type may be achieved by ultrasonic computed tomography (UCT) imaging. 

First, by circular array imaging A synthetic circular aperture array was used to obtain circular C-scan images. These images displayed the location of different discontinuity types, although only shadow images were obtained. 

At first, it is statistical standard of the undefective section. Such standard is created, introducing certain lower threshold and using measured data. Under the classical variant of the shadow USD method it is measured fluctuations of accepted signal on the undefective product and installed in each of 512 direction its threshold in proportion to corresponding dispersions of US signal in all 128 sections. After introducting of threshold signal is transformed in the binary form. Thereby, adaptive threshold is one of the particularities of the offered USCT IT. 

USCT IT. The US block forms beam data by the mirror-shadow method and ensures simultaneously precise measurement of coordinates of sensors. It consists of two multichannel blocks, namely tomographic (USTB) for multiangle collection of projection data and coordinate (USCB) on surfaces waves for coordinates measurement of US sensors. 

Figure I represents a two-dimensional damage distribution of an impact in a 0/90° CFRP laminate of 3 mm thickness. Unlike in ultrasonic testing, which is usually the standard method for this problem, there is no shadowing effect on the successive layers by delamination echos. With the method of X-ray refraction the exact concentration of debonded fibers can be calculated for each position averaged over the wall thickness. Additionally the refraction allows the selection of the fiber orientation. The presented X-ray refraction topograph detects selectively debonded fibers of the 90° direction.

Projection radiography has long been used for pipe inspection and corrosion monitoring. In this traditional tangential wall thickness estimation the distance of border lines of the projected wall shadows of a pipe onto the film is a direct measure for the wall thickness. This method is not considered here, newer developments can be found in / /. 

Another important application area is the non-destructive defectoscopy of electronic components. Fig.2a shows an X-ray shadow image of a SMC LED. The 3-dimensional displacement of internal parts can only be visualized non-destructively in the tomographic reconstmction. Reconstructed cross sections through this LED are shown in Fig.2b. In the same way most electronic components in plastic and thin metal cases can be visualized. Even small electronic assemblies like hybrid ICs, magnetic heads, microphones, ABS-sensors can be tested by microtomograpical methods. 

One more application area is composite materials where one wants to investigate the 3D structure and/or reaction to external influences. Fig.3a shows a shadow image of a block of composite material. It consists of an epoxy matrix with glass fibers. The reconstructed cross-sections, shown in Fig.3b, clearly show the fiber displacement inside the matrix. The sample can be loaded in situ to investigate the reaction of matrix and fibers to external strain. Also absorption and transmission by liquids can be visualized directly in three-dimensions. This method has been applied to the study of oil absorption in plastic granules and water collection inside artificial plant grounds. 

Fig.l.Microtomography of bone shadow image (a), reconstructed cross-sections (b) and full 3-D reconstruction (c)... 

Ions are also used to initiate secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) [ ], as described in section BI.25.3. In SIMS, the ions sputtered from the surface are measured with a mass spectrometer. SIMS provides an accurate measure of the surface composition with extremely good sensitivity. SIMS can be collected in the static mode in which the surface is only minimally disrupted, or in the dynamic mode in which material is removed so that the composition can be detemiined as a fiinction of depth below the surface. SIMS has also been used along with a shadow and blocking cone analysis as a probe of surface structure [70]. 

Chang C-C and Winograd N 1989 Shadow-cone-enhanced secondary-ion mass-spectrometry studies of Ag(110) Rhys. Rev. B 39 3467... 

The intensity of SS /. from an element in the solid angle AD is proportional to the initial beam intensity 7q, the concentration of the scattering element N., the neutralization probability P-, the differential scattering cross section da(0)/dD, the shadowing coefficient. (a, 5j ) and the blocking coefficient(a,5 ) for the th component on the surface ... 

B1.23.2.2 SHADOW CONES, BLOCKING CONES, AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS... 

Figure Bl.23.2. (a) Shadow cone of a stationary Pt atom in a 4 keV Ne ion beam, appearing with the overlapping of ion trajectories as a fiinction of the impact parameter. The initial position of the target atom that recoils in the collision is indicated by a solid circle, (b) Plot of the nonnalized ion flux distribution density across the shadow cone in (a). The flux density changes from 0 inside the shadow cone, to much greater than l in the focusing region, converging to 1 away from the shadow cone edge, (c) Blocking cones...

Figure Bl.23.3. Schematic illustrations of backscattering with shadowing and direct recoiling with shadowing and blocking.

B1.23.2.3 SCATTERING AND RECOILING ANISOTROPY CAUSED BY SHADOWING AND BLOCKING CONES... 

A) TIME OF FLIGHT SCATTERING AND RECOILING SPECTROMETRY (TOF-SARS)—SHADOW CONE BASED EXPERIMENT... 

When an ion beam is incident on an atomically flat surface at grazing angles, each surface atom is shadowed by its neighbouring atom such that only forwardscattering (FS) is possible these are large impact parameter (p) collisions. 

As a increases, a critical value " i-.iiiis reached each time the th layer of target atoms moves out of the shadow cone allowing for large-angle backscattering (BS) or small-/i collisions as shown in figure Bl.23.3. If the BS intensity 1, is monitored as a fimction of a, steep rises [36] witli well defined maxima are observed when the... 

Azimuthal scans obtained for tliree surface phases of Ni l 10] are shown in figure B 1.23.9 [38]. The minima observed for the clean and hydrogen-covered surfaces are due only to Ni atoms shadowing neighbouring Ni atoms, whereas for the oxygen-covered surface minima are observed due to both O and Ni atoms shadowing... 

Figure Bl.23.9. Scattering intensity of 4 keV Ne versus azimuthal angle 8 for a Ni 110] surface in the clean (1 X 1), (1 X 2)-H missing row, and (2 x l)-0 missing row phases. The hydrogen atoms are not shown. The oxygen atoms are shown as small open circles. 0-Ni and Ni-Ni denote the directions along which O and Ni atoms, respectively, shadow the Ni scattering centre.

Masson F and Rabalais J W 1991 Surface periodicity exposed through shadowing and blocking effects Chem. Rhys. Lett. 179 63-7... 

This relation is a direct consequence of the conservation of flux. The target casts a shadow in the forward direction where the intensity of the incident beam becomes reduced by just that amount which appears in the scattered wave. This decrease in intensity or shadow results from interference between the incident wave and the scattered wave in the forward direction. Figure B2.2.2 for the density P (r) of section B2.2.6 illustrates... 

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