August 2026 - Volume 84, Issue 8

ASNT's 85th-anniversary issue of Materials Evaluation covers bond testing techniques, designing for inspectability, new ASNT councils, and a special retrospective. It also features technical papers on AI-driven defect detection, plus industry news on X-ray scroll imaging, nanoscale microscopy, and drone-based crack inspection.

Magazine cover titled "Materials Evaluation," celebrating 85 years of ASNT with images of engineers, testing equipment, and a timeline from the 1950s onward.

Vintage black-and-white photograph of NDT pioneers examining radiographs on a viewing device.

85 Years of ASNT

ASNT staff and members gathered at a professional conference.

UT

Understanding ASNT 9712

An inspector in a hard hat and high-visibility vest uses a tablet at an industrial facility at dusk.

Manufacturing

The NDE Value Alliance

Five aluminum test specimens machined with artificial surface-breaking slot cracks at various angles, used for experimental ACFM validation.

Members

Energy, ET

Quantitative Inversion and Complementary Visual Evaluation of Cracks Based on Equivalent Planar Array ACFM

Grid of X-ray CT images of explosive-column defects with blue detection boxes marking segmented internal holes.

Members

Manufacturing, RT

MBCF-YOLO: Enabling Automated Defect Detection and Area Quantification

3D rendering of a bond testing probe on a layered composite panel, with red markers indicating subsurface disbonds between plies.

Members

Aerospace, UT

Bond Testing Selecting the Right Technique to Inspect Composite and Bonded Structures

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