NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION AND ITS NEW ROLE IN THE COMING CENTURY
S. Fakuda Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology Department of Production, Information and Systems Engineering 6-6, Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191, Japan
ABSTRACT
The Increasing DIVERSIFICATION and complexity of products are adding a new role to nondestructive evaluation. Conventionally, its emphasis has been on verification, but now products come to be continuously developed throughout its whole life cycle to such a degree as may be called "prosumer" development. Thus, a new tool for guidance and for better decision making is called for. Nondestructive evaluation technology is expected to provide such a tool in the coming century.
Publication Source: Trends in NDE Science & Technology; Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, New Delhi, 8-13 December 1996.Vol. 1, pages 15 - 24 Publisher:Ashgate Publishing Company
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