CHARACTERIZATION OF TYPICAL DEFECT STRUCTURES OF ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS BY COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY

Abstract Typical properties and defect structures in composites are well characterized by high resolution X-ray tomography. This NDE method can be particularly used in the development of materials to reduce time consuming methods like micrographs, if the time scale is appropriate even time dependent processes like a dry-up procedure can be studied by CT. For large components a Region-of-Interest method was applied which allows to investigate only the interesting parts of the samples.