Evolution of the Ultrasonic Inspection of Heavy Rotor Forgings Over the Last Decades

Article:
AIP Conference Proceedings 02/2010; 1211:1631-1638
DOI: 10.1063/1.3362264
Publisher: AIP

All types of heavy forgings that are used in energy machine industry, rotor shafts as well as discs, retaining rings or tie bolts are subject to extensive nondestructive inspections before they are de...

Evolution of the Ultrasonic Inspection Requirements of Heavy Rotor Forgings Over the Past Decades

Article:
AIP Conference Proceedings 02/2010; 1211:1623-1630
DOI: 10.1063/1.3362263
Publisher: AIP

Heavy rotor forgings for land-based power generation turbines and generators are inspected ultrasonically. Several decades ago the first inspections were conducted using manual, straight beam, contact...

Fundamentals and Uses of Active Thermography with Electromagnetic Excitation: Induction and Conduction Thermography

Book:
09/2009
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1680.4567
Publisher: Shaker, ISBN: 978-3832284978

Active thermography with electromagnetic excitation allows one to detect defects in components non-destructively, reliably and fast by imaging with an infrared camera. In induction thermography a curr...

Induction Thermography for the Automatic Inspection of Generator Components

Conference Paper:
DGZfP Jahrestagung 05/2009, At Münster, Germany; 2009
DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3357.5365

In power engineering, components subjected to high stress are used in various applications, and it is essential to prevent defects in these components. In addition to turbine construction, this is als...

Induction and Conduction Thermography: Optimizing the Electromagnetic Excitation Towards Application

Article:
AIP Conference Proceedings 03/2009; 1096:518
DOI: 10.1063/1.3114299
Publisher: AIP

Active thermography, using electromagnetic excitation, allows detecting defects like cracks which distort the flow of current in the component under examination. Like other thermography techniques it ...

Mechanisms and Models for Crack Detection with Induction Thermography

Article:
AIP Conference Proceedings 02/2008; 975:475-482
DOI: 10.1063/1.2902698
Publisher: AIP

Induction thermography is a non-contacting, non-destructive evaluation method with a wide range of applications. A deeper understanding of the detectability of cracks requires fundamental knowledge ab...

Observation of Entanglement of a Single Photon with a Trapped Atom

Article:
Physical review letters 02/2006; 96(3):030404
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.030404
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)

We report the observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon at a wavelength suitable for low-loss communication over large distances, thereby achieving a crucial step t...

Atom-Photon Entanglement

Article:
arXiv:quant-ph 11/2005; 0511183
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0511183

We report the observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon at a wavelength suitable for low-loss communication over large distances, thereby achieving a crucial step t...

Observation of atom-photon entanglement

Conference Paper:
Quantum Electronics Conference 06/2005, At Tokyo, Japan; 2005:313
DOI: 10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567479
Publisher: IEEE

A single 87Rb atom into an optical dipole trap is loaded from a magneto optical trap. To generate entanglement between the trapped atom and an emitted photon, the atom is excited via an optical φ-puls...

Towards Atom-Photon Entanglement: State Selective Detection of a Single Atom

Book:
02/2004
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3515.4649

Quantum mechanics is essential for the understanding of many phenomenons in nature – es- pecially in the atomic and subatomic region. But even for macroscopic objects it has to be as- sumed that they ...

Decoherence and Quantum Error Correction

Presentation:
11/2002

The preservation of quantum coherence is a fundamental prerequisite for reliable quantum computation, as interactions with the environment and continuous gate imperfections inevitably lead to informat...

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