RADI 4430U – Industrial Applications of Radiation Techniques

An introduction to application of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation to industrial probing, gauging, imaging and monitoring. Topics include: monitors (smoke detectors, radon monitors), density gauging using alpha, beta and gamma radiation; thickness gauging using charged particles, photons and neutrons; fluid flow and void fraction measurements, element and content analysis using neutron activation analysis and fluoroscopic excitation, Mossbauer spectroscopy, industrial radiography and computed tomography using photons and neutrons; emission tomography, ultrasound and eddy current flaw detection.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 2
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 3740U or NUCL 3740U; RADI 4550U