Contents

Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing

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Vol. 53, No. 8, 2017

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing ISSN 1061-8309.

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Acoustic Methods

Calculating the Energy Transmission Factor for a Couplant Layer with Nonuniform Thickness

A. V. Michurov and A. V. Sokolkin p. 545  abstract

Connection between the Properties of 40Kh-Steel Bar Stock and the Speed of Bulk and Rayleigh Waves

V. V. Murav’ev, O. V. Murav’eva and K. V. Petrov p. 560  abstract

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X-Ray Methods

Identification of Materials in X-Ray Inspections of Objects by the Dual-Energy Method

S. P. Osipov, V. A. Udod and Y. Wang p. 568  abstract

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Electromagnetic Methods

An Eddy-Current Gauge for Measuring the Wall Thickness of Light-Alloy Drill Pipes

A. E. Goldstein and V. Yu. Belyankov p. 588  abstract

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