A new immersion testing method has been developed where the water of the conventional method has been replaced with powder, specifically in this study aluminum powder. In this new method, objects are ultrasonically tested while immersed in pressurized powder. In this paper engineering plastics were tested using this method. The acoustic impedance of the aluminum powder and the test objects match each other greatly reducing the elastic wave reflections.
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