Civil Engineering Department

IIT Bombay
(Autumn Semester 2019)
Tentative Course Outline

CE 720: Nondestructive Testing of Materials

(Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Structures)

Instructor: Prof. Sauvik Banerjee, Room 132, Phone 7343 , sauvik@civil.iitb.ac.in

Course Outline

1. Introduction: Role of NDT – Concrete, Metallic and Composite Materials

2. Origin and classification of defects/discontinuities
3. Commonly used methods of NDT applied to Metallic structures:
(i) Ultrasonic Testing (ii) Eddy current Testing (iii) Magnetic Particle Testing (iv) Liquid
Penetrant Testing (v) Radiographic Testing
4. Nondestructive Testing and Condition Assessment of Concrete Structures
(i) Rebound Hammer (ii) Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (iii) Half Cell Potentiometer (iv) Carbonation
(v) Impact Echo
5. Advanced Techniques for NDE
(i) Ultrasonic Guided/Lamb Wave Propagation – Inspection of Composite Structures
(ii) Acoustic Emission
6. Signal Processing: Fourier Transform & Wavelet Transform
7. Concept of Structural Health Monitoring: Vibration and Wave propagation based approaches
8. Laboratory Demonstrations: Structural Health Monitoring and Retrofitting Lab, VMCC, 5th Floor
Structural Evaluation and Materials Technologies Lab (CE Dept)
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Grading Basis (Tentative): Midsem – 30%, Independent Project – 20%, Final Exam - 50%

Course Materials: (1) Handouts

(2) Open Resource: www.nde-ed.org
(3) Text Books/References
J..F. Hinslay, Non-Destructive Testing, MacDonald and Evants, 1959. H.B. Egerton, Non-Destructive
Testing, Oxford University Press, 1969. Paul E. Mix, Introduction to Nondestructive Testing: A training
Guide John Wiley & Sons, Krautkramer: Ultrasonic Testing of Materials, Springer-Verlag, 1969. M.A.
Novgoresky, Testing of Building Materials and Structures, Mir Publishers, 1973. Sansalone, M., and
Streett, W. B., Impact-Echo: Nondestructive Testing of Concrete and Masonry, Bullbrier Press, Jersey
Shore, PA, 1997. Hertlein, B.H. Stress wave testing of concrete: A 25-year review and a peek into the
future. Construction and Building Materials, 38, 7240–7245, 2013