Three Decades of NDT Reliability Assessment and Demonstration

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 856-860

  Singh, Ripudaman ^a  

^a Karta Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Literature review; NDT reliability

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DAMAGE DETECTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS; DAMAGE-TOLERANT DESIGN; DEMONSTRATION PROJECT; DISCONTINUITY DETECTION; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION; TESTING RELIABILITY;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 1842787088     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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