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- With increasing demand for bridge service lives of 100 years or more, engineers face a durability challenge regarding bridges in coastal regions, where accelerated deterioration is commonly observed.
- Inconel 718 is considered to be most difficult to machine superalloy because of its high shear strength, work hardening and precipitation hardening.
- It is noticeable that the increase of road traffic during the last two decades in addition to the insufficient degree of maintenance caused an accelerated deterioration of road structure.
- The detection of internal defects using digital speckle pattern interferometry (TSPI) combined with thermal loading has generated great interest in the field of non-destructive testing.