OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of RGB-D Image for Counting Exposed Aggregate Number on Pavement Surface Based on Computer Vision Technique	45
Surface Extraction for Industrial CT Based on Surface Tracking	42
Avalanche-Like Dynamics of Indentation-Induced Plastic Deformation in AZ31 Revealed by Acoustic Emission	40
Photothermal NDE of UD/Epoxy-Based Carbon Fibre Reinforced Laminates for Quantitative Porosity Analysis	37
Cut-Off Thickness Identification of Defects with Single and Two-Step Geometries Using SH1 Mode Conversion	36
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification and Regularized Reconstruction for CT-Based Dimensional Metrology	33
A Physics-informed Wave Tomography Framework for Defect Reconstruction: A Collaborative Network Scheme	30
MLP ANN Equipped Approach to Measuring Scale Layer in Oil-Gas-Water Homogeneous Fluid by Capacitive and Photon Attenuation Sensors	23
Demonstrating the Viability of Through-Transmission Eddy Current for Crack Detection	23
Simulation-Trained Neural Networks for Automatable Crack Detection in Magnetic Field Images	22
Prediction of Residual Strains Due to In-Plane Fibre Waviness in Defective Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Polymers Using Ultrasound Data	21
Computer Vision-Based Quantitative Detection of Bolt Loosening Using Two-Stage Perspective Distortion Correction Method	20
Unsupervised Enhancement of Ultrasonic Sequential Images Based on High-Frequency Feature Extraction and Bi-ConvLSTM	19
Use of Passive Thermography to Detect Detachment and Humidity in Façades Clad with Ceramic Materials of Differing Porosities	19
Advancements in Citrus Quality Assessment: Utilizing X-ray Imaging with CitrusnetQuality Model for Non-Destructive Evaluation	19
A Thickness Measurement Method Immune to Lift-Off Fluctuation Using Sweep-Frequency Eddy Current Testing	18
Damage Classification of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Cables under Progressive Reciprocating Tensile Loading using a Hybrid Deep Learning Approach	17
Localisation of Ultrasonic NDT Data Using Hybrid Tracking of Component and Probe	17
Eddy Current Method in Non-Magnetic Aluminide Coating Thickness Assessment	17
Determination of Thermal Parameters using Thermography and Data Assimilation and its Application to the Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient	17
Compensating Streak Artifacts in Sparse-View Inline Industrial CT for Accurate Metrology using Self-Supervised Optimization of Implicit Neural Volume Representations	17
Inline Pipeline Inspection Using Hybrid Deep Learning Aided Endoscopic Laser Profiling	16
Classification of Time–Frequency Maps of Guided Waves Using Foreground Extraction	16
Methodology for Mapping the Residual Stress Field in Serviced Rails Using LCR Waves	16
Modeling and Analysis of Ellipticity Dispersion Characteristics of Lamb Waves in Pre-stressed Plates	16

Construction of Dielectric Model for Asphalt Mixture Considering Frequency and Temperature	15
Acoustic Emission-Based Assessment of Damage Evolution in Bridge Systems: Methods, Indicators, and Advances in Structural Mechanics	15
3D Remote Assistance for NDT Inspections	15
A New Dual-Mode Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer for Preload Measurement of Superalloy Bolts	14
Infrared Thermal Imaging-Based Turbine Blade Crack Classification Using Deep Learning	14
A Vision-Based Displacement Measurement Method of Wind Turbine Blades in Biaxial Fatigue Testing	14
Robust Parameter Design of Eddy Current Measuring Devices for Magnetic Permeability of a Moving Strip of Ferromagnetic Rolled Metal	14
Bayesian-Network-Based Evaluation for Corrosion State of Reinforcements Embedded in Concrete by Multiple Electrochemical Indicators	14
The Application, Challenge, and Developing Trends of Non-destructive Testing Technique for Large-scale and Complex Engineering Components Fabricated by Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology in Aeros	14
Highlighting Concealed Features in Welding X-ray Radiography	13
Numerical Investigation on the X-ray Imaging Inspection for Grout Loss Evaluation of Bridges	13
The Detection of Local Impact Fatigue Damage on Metal Materials by Combining Nonlinear Acoustic Modulation and Coda Wave Interferometry	13
X-ray Inspection Model Validation with Physical Dosimetry	13
Non-Destructive Evaluation and Damage Determination of Fiber-Reinforced Composites by Digital Image Correlation	13
Nondestructive Evaluation of Banana Maturity Using NIR AS7263 Sensor	13
Experimental Study on Monitoring and Prediction of Earth-rockfill Dam Leakage Based on Infrared Thermography	13
Application of Magnetic and Eddy-Current Methods to Assess the Thickness of the Hardened Layer on the Surface of AISI 321 Metastable Austenitic Steel Subjected to Frictional Treatment	12
A Comparative Study of Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Low Velocity Impact Damages in CFRP from Ultrasonic C-Scans	12
Reconstruction of the Ferromagnetic Hysteresis in the Rayleigh Regime by Means of Impedance Analysis of the Excitation Coil	12
Enhancing Limited-Sample Probability of Detection Estimation Using Models and Advanced Regression Techniques	12
Evaluation Metrics for Comparison between Virtual and Industrial XCT	11
Implementation of the Magnetic Barkhausen Noise Technique for Microstructural Characterization of Rail Steel	11
Experimental Rig Design for the Development of Wheel-Type Caliper Sensor	11
A Dual-regularization Mechanism used for Ultrasound Signal Classification by Acoustic Velocity-guided Dropout and Squeeze-and-excitation Attention	11
Micro Drill Resistance Instrument Measurements at Different Feed Speeds: Novel Conversion Algorithm for Enhanced Accuracy	11
Ultrasonic Imaging Technique for NDE: Arbitrary Virtual Array Source Aperture with using Sign Coherence Factor	11
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Inspection of the Effect of Contaminants on Material Properties of Epoxy-Adhesive	11
Analysis of the Microstructure and Hardness of Flake Graphite Cast Iron Using the Barkhausen Noise Method and Conventional Techniques	11
Dynamic Laser Speckle Imaging for Quantifying Particle Size During Intermittent Stages of Natural Rubber Latex Coagulation	10
Missing Rail Fastener Detection Based on Laser Doppler Vibrometer Measurements	10
Smart Estimation of Sandstones Mechanical Properties Based on Thin Section Image Processing Techniques	10
Rupture Disc Monitoring Using Electro-mechanical Impedance (EMI): A Feasibility Study	10
Sweeping Frequency Balanced Electromagnetic Field Distortion Effects under Buried Cracks	10
Enhancing Computed Tomography-Based Pore Mesh Models Through Matching with Microscope Cross-Section Images	10
Titanium Alloy Weld Time-of-Flight Diffraction Image Denoising Based on a Wavelet Feature Fusion Deep-Learning Model	10
Multi-View Total Focusing Method with Dempster-Shafer Fusion for Nondestructive Testing of Socket Weld	10
An Automated Image Processing Method to Detect Progressive Matrix Cracking in CFRP Composites Using X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography	10
A Multi-Sensor Detection Method Based on WGAN-GP and Attention-Bi-GRU for Well Control Pipeline Defects	10
Prediction of Micro-Cracks in Steel Structures Subjected to Fatigue by Means of Acoustic Emission	10
Bedrock Identification and Bedrock Depth Prediction in Asphalt Pavements Using Pavement System Transfer Function	9
CNN-CHD: Combining Clustering Hierarchical Divisive and CNN for Enhanced Weld Defect Detection	9
Design of Concrete Mock-Ups with Complex Defect Scenarios Using Numerical Simulations	9
Robust Circle Detection and Dimensional Measurement of Industrial Parts Using the RCIMI Framework	9
Intelligent Micro-Cracks Identification in Acoustic Emission Based on Moment Tensor Theory and Convolutional Neural Networks	9
Adaptive and High-Precision Isosurface Meshes from CT Data	9
D3-Net: Dynamic Defect Detection Network for Identifying Defects in Multifaceted Material of Automotive Seats	9
Segmentation of Inner Surface Defects of Stainless Steel Pipes Based on Semi-bilateral Efficient Self-Attention Network	9
Acoustic Emission Signal Feature Extraction for Bearing Faults Using ACF and GMOMEDA	9
Acoustic Emission as a Stochastic Microfailure Process: Unified Quantitative Laws	9
A New Method for the Microfocus X-ray Computed Tomography Visualization and Quantitative Exploration of Reinforcement Particles in Additively Manufactured Superalloy IN718	9

Machine Learning-Assisted Fiber Bragg Grating Humidity Sensor for Nondestructive Condition Monitoring	9
Evaluation of Welding Imperfections with X-ray Computed Laminography for NDT Inspection of Carbon Steel Plates	9
Correction: MLP ANN Equipped Approach To Measuring Scale Layer in Oil-Gas-Water Homogeneous Fluid by Capacitive and Photon Attenuation Sensors	8
Ultrasonic Phased Array Imaging for Defects in Angle Blind Spots Based on the Solid Directivity Function	8
Impact of Wind Speed on the Use of Active Infrared Thermography	8
In-situ Monitoring Of Time-varying Geometry During FDM via Ultrasonic Leaky Lamb Waves	8
Innovative IoT-Integrated Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring of Chloride Penetration in Concrete Structures	8
Depth Accurate Prediction and Kerf Quality Improvement of CFRP Through-Hole Laser Cutting via Acoustic Emission Nondestructive Monitoring Technology	8
A Novel Method for Enhancing the Image Quality of Neutron Projection Image	8
Point-to-Point Dispersion Estimation of Lamb Waves	8
Theoretical Analysis on the Distribution of Eddy Current in Motion-Induced Eddy Current Testing and High-Speed MFL Testing	8
Resonant Ultrasonic Testing can Quantitatively Assess the Microscopic Porosity of Complex-Shaped Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg Components	8
Non-Contact Inspection Methods for Wind Turbine Blade Maintenance: Techno–Economic Review of Techniques for Integration with Industry 4.0	8
Comparative Evaluation of Hyperspectral, Thermal, and Near-Infrared Imaging Systems for Non-Destructive Prediction of Fruit and Vegetable Quality: A Review	8
Nondestructive Characterization of Multiscale Defects in an Aluminum Alloy After Cold Spray Repair	8
Conductivity Measurement of Non-magnetic Material Using the Phase Feature of Eddy Current Testing	7
Non-Destructive Measurement of Chloride Profiles in Cementitious Materials Using NMR	7
Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Total Focusing Method Based on Covariance Correlation Weighting Factor	7
Instance Segmentation XXL-CT Challenge of a Historic Airplane	7
Reduced Training Data for Laser Ultrasound Signal Interpretation by Neural Networks	7
Magnetic Barkhausen Noise Evaluation of 22MnB5 High Strength Steel Microstructure After Heat Treatment	7
Analysis of a Prototype Multi-Detector Fast-Neutron Radiography Panel	7
Time–Frequency Domain Analysis of Subsurface Defects in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites using Chirp Modulated Thermal Wave Imaging	7
Ultrasonic Testing of Corrosion in Aircraft Rivet Using Spiking Neural Network	7
Eddy Current Testing in the Quantitive Assessment of Degradation State in MAR247 Nickel Superalloy with Aluminide Coatings	7
Eigen Background Subtraction for Industrial Flaw Detection: Application to High-Pressure Turbine Blade CT Scans	7
Acoustic Emission Data Analysis of Compression after Impact Tests for Composite Materials	7
Assessing the Influence of Welded Joint on Health Monitoring of Rail Sections: An Experimental Study Employing SVM and ANN Models	7
Debond Identification in GFRP Strengthened RC Beam Using Surface Guided Wave Mode Generated by Angle Beam Transducer	7
A Damage Identification Method for Wind Turbine Blade Fatigue Testing Based on Acoustic Emission Signals	7
Acoustic Emission Waveform Analysis for Instability and Failure Evaluation of Snow	6
Continuous High-Temperature Thermoelectric Power Monitoring of Thermal Embrittlement	6
Research on Ultrasonic NDT of Wire to Terminal Joints: Comparison of Combinations of Various CNNs and Signal Processing Technologies	6
Identification of Hole Damage in CFRP Axle Tubes Based on Modal Parameters	6
A State-of-the-Art Review of Structural Health Monitoring Techniques for Wind Turbine Blades	6
Model-Quality-Adaptive Probability of Detection Across Multiple Inspection Scenarios	6
Nondestructive Evaluation of the Isolated Pore Spatial Distribution State in a Special-Shaped C/SiC Composite Component	6
Image Analysis of the Automatic Welding Defects Detection Based on Deep Learning	6
A Review of the Applicability of Non-destructive Testing for the Determination of the Fire Performance of Reused Structural Timber	6
NDE Data Correlation Using Encoder–Decoder Networks with Wavelet Scalogram Images	6
A Novel Quantitative Detection Model Based on Scanning Mode of Planar Double-Electrode Sensor	6
Application of Dual-target Computed Tomography for Material Decomposition of Low-Z Materials	6
Interpretable Dimensionality Reduction in 3D Image Recognition with Small Sample Sizes	6
X-ray Image Generation for Robotic Radiography: a Case Study on Motion Blur in Drone-Based Wind Turbine Inspections	6
Identification of Structural Damage Severity Using an Inverse Wave Analysis	6
Immersive Inspection: Intuitive Material Analysis using X-Ray Computed Tomography Data in AR	6
Air-Coupled Broadband Impact-Echo Actuation Using Supersonic Jet Flow	6
Micromagnetic and Quantitative Prediction of Surface Hardness in Carbon Steels Based on a Joint Classification-Regression Method	6
Detection of Delaminations in Concrete Plates Using a Laser Ablation Impact Echo Technique	6
Inductive Thermography and Data Fusion for Enhanced Detection of Tunneling Defects in Friction Stir Welding	6
Nondestructive Evaluation of Postfire Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete Frames: Field Tests	6
Multi-frequency Fused Lock-in Thermography in Detecting Defects at Different Depths	6
Research on Infrasound-based Pipeline Leakage Signal Identification Using Random Forest	6
Use of Impedance Spectroscopy for the Characterization of the Microstructure of Alkali Activated SiMn Slag: Influence of Activator and Time Evolution	6
LSOD-YOLO: Lightweight Small Object Detection Algorithm for Wind Turbine Surface Damage Detection	6
Delamination Defect Evaluation in CFRP Composite Patches by the Use of Active Thermography	6
High Energy X-Ray Source Characterization at 0.450, 3, 6, 9, and 15 MVp	6
Ultrasonic Lamb Wave Damage Detection of CFRP Composites Using the Bayesian Neural Network	6
Particle Filter-Based Fault Prognosis of Live XLPE Insulated Aerial Bundled Cables Installed at Coastal Regions Using Historical Infrared Thermography Data	6
Automated Detection of Delamination Defects in Composite Laminates from Ultrasonic Images Based on Object Detection Networks	6