Microwave testing has been paid only scant attention in the literature
as a method for nondestructive testing of materials, yet it offers some
attractive features, especially for the testing of composite and other
non-metallic materials.
Microwave techniques have been used in a large number of applications
that can be classified as nondestructive testing applications, ranging
from large scale remote sensing to detection of tumors in the body.
This volume describes a unified approach to microwave nondestructive
testing by presenting the three essential components of testing: theory,
practice, and modelling. While recognizing that each of these subjects
is wide enough to justify a volume of its own, the presentation of the
three topics together shows that these are interrelated and should be
practiced together. While few will argue against a good theoretical
background, modelling and simulation of the testing environment is
seldom part of the NDT training in any method, but particularly so in
microwave testing.
The text is devided in four parts. The first part presents the field
theory background necessary for understanding the microwave domain. The
second part treats microwave measurements as well as devices and sources
and the third part discusses practical tests applicable to a variety of
materials and geometries. The fourth part discusses modelling of
microwave testing. Each chapter contains a bibliography intended to
expand on the material given and, in particular, to point to subjects
which could not be covered either as not appropriate or for lack of
space.
For engineers, applied physicsts, material scientists.
