Ford-Werke Ag

Isotopen-Technik Dr. Sauerwein Gmbh

Dr. Kurt Sauerwein

Helmut Wiacker

Rainer Link

Kurt Sauerwein

Wolfgang Zindler

Wolfgang Nuding

Thomas Monsau

Kurt Disselhorst

Ekhard Stolzenberg

Rudiger Schulz

Christian Stapf

Hans P Busse

Herbert Burghoff

Karl Kirchesch

Laurence F Topping

James D Lean

A process and device for detecting and evaluating surface cracks in workpieces wherein a picture is produced of the surface of the workpiece by means of a video camera and said picture is digitized and is processed by means of a computer to produce a binary picture of any cracks present and a sorting report is triggered when a preselected threshold level is exceeded. In order to obtain a sorting signal that is independent of the absolute brightness of the original picture a blurred background picture is derived from the original picture levels that have been converted to digitized grey shade levels and subtracted from the original picture, the difference picture formed in this way giving the crack representation. A dynamic threshold level for the sorting signal is determined by comparing the grey shade distribution of the original or the difference picture with at least one previously evaluated or difference picture and a binary picture is produced from the original or the difference picture and the grey shade threshold, and picture elements with their gray shades exceeding the set threshold are indicated as defects. The surface of the workpiece may be pre-treated by the magnetic powder or dye penetration process and/or contrast intensifying means.

Process and device for detecting and evaluating surface cracks in

A process and device for producing a radiographic image of a body employ a source of high-energy radiation arranged on one side of the body and a pick-up device arranged on the other side of the body, a real-time system for reproducing the radiographic image having a television camera and a screen, and a computer-tomograph to evaluate the radiographic image row-wise and to display a cross-section of the radiographed body on the screen. By means of the real-time radiographic image a cross-section is selected and represented computer-tomographically. In this manner in the real-time radiographic image the location can be determined of which a layer image is necessary in order to recognise defects in the body being radiographed.

Process and device for producing a radiographic image

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Hilden, Germany

Helmut Wiacker