Abstract

The future of industrial computed tomography (CT) in the United States is mainly driven by the automotive and aerospace industry. Other uses include bio research and the oil industry. The aerospace industry mainly uses the technology to perform nondestructive testing on welding seams, castings and failure analysis. The growth in additive manufacturing (AM) will open a whole new market for CT for both dimensional inspection and flaw detection. All indications show that there will be parts directly printed or cores for investment casting will be printed in much greater quantities than today. All electrical vehicles will be taking over pretty soon if we believe some of the market predictions. India and The Netherlands already committed to ban all internal combustion engine cars by 2030/2035. That will change the automotive landscape without a doubt. The use of light AL or Mg alloys is predicted to go up from less than 10% per vehicle today to about 30% in 2035. This change will have an impact on how vehicles are manufactured. More safety critical parts will be made of light alloys. That will increase the demand for nondestructive evaluation. We’ve all seen major changes in our everyday lives when it comes to cell phones. The evolution took us from large and heavy to small and then back to big again when we started to use our phone as internet devices. In the past few years these device became much more user friendly and more powerful. The same is possibly happening when it comes to industrial CT systems. With the latest touch screen technologies, commonly known gestures (like swipe the screen) and camera technology the user interaction will be much more intuitive. The presentation will show some of the latest technologies applied to an industrial product and how it changes the operation of the system. Technical explanations will be provided to understand how modern systems provide easy to use user interfaces. Also covered in this presentation are various new scan techniques that provide large scan envelopes and great image quality.

How to Cite:

Steiner, D., (2019) “Trends in industrial computed tomography”, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation .