In recent years industrial Computed Tomography (ICT) became a powerful and well established tool for various applications in research and development, production and quality assurance. Since the beginning of CT and first medical applications, several decades full of innovations and developments passed by. The most important developments were the micro focus X-Ray tube design and the digital flat panel detector. Coupled with the rapid developments in the IT industry, they allowed the time-and cost-effective use of CT. Despite of this, there are a number of applications - primarily in the areas of automotive, aviation and aerospace industry - which have increased demands on CT system technology. Mainly due to the size of the test pieces and the high material thickness the most relevant property of a CT system is the maximum available X-ray energy respectively the capability of penetration. For example in automotive industry aluminum castings with considerable wall thickness are produced and have to be tested and evaluated completely in increasingly shorter time. A significant contribution to this trend is the latest generation of CT systems, which provide an outstanding image quality using 600 kV X-ray tubes and line detectors. In order to test the performance of such CT systems a detailed test setup was implemented and advantages and disadvantages of 600 kV CT systems were investigated. Different measurements with different parameters such as tube voltage and exposure time were carried out and the results are compared and discussed in this paper.


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    Title :

    Comparative Study on the Benefits of 600 kV Computed Tomography Systems and its application in aerospace industry


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    9 Seiten, Bilder, Tabellen, 2 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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