CONTENTS

TECHNICAL DIAGNOSTICS

• BONDARENKO YU. K., FURMAN YA. M., BONDARENKO A. YU., KOVACHUK O. V. Problems of determination of the residual life of welded structures (Review) ... 3
• BIGUS G. A., STRELKOV P. B. Investigation of acousto-emission signals in deformation and fracture of samples of steel 22K ... 10
• DYADIN V. P., DAVYDOV E. A., LITVINENKO A. E., GONCHAR E. A. Engineering approach to evaluation of admissible dimensions of air-tight «bubbles» in technical diagnostics of petrochemical equipment susceptible to low-temperature hydrogen cracking ... 16

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

• STOROZHENKO V. A., KHORLO N. F, MESHKOV S. N.. MASLOVA V. A. Approaches to development of standard samples for thermal NDT ... 21
• STRIZHALO V. A., NOVOGRUDSKY L. S., ZEMTSOV M. P. On determination of elastic, deformation and energy characteristics of structural materials ... 26
• LEVITSKY О. Е. On generation of projection data in UT reconstructive tomography; square-wave discretization and selection of the number of probing directions ... 29
• GORDELY V. I., CHABANOV V. E. Investigation of operation of EMA-transdu- cers on emission of focused Raleigh waves... 36
• GORODNICHY V. V., ASTAKHOV D. S. Theoretical evaluation of the influence of signal distortions on signal-to-noise ratio at double EMAT ... 40
• BELY N. G., PONOMARENKO V. K., KARMANOV M. M., TROITSKAYA N. V. New capabilities of radiography ... 42
• POSYPAIKO YU. N. Overview of the contents of «Defectoscopia» journal ... 44

NEWS AND INFORMATION

• 5th Jubilee Seminar-Exhibition «Modern Technologies and Instruments of NDT and Technical Diagnostics» ... 46
• All-Ukrainian forum «Standards and Quality — 2005» ... 49
• First Scientific-Practical Conference «Control and Testing: Problems, Solutions, Prospects» ... 49
• Results of conducting International Industrial Forum «Production and protection — 2004» ... 50
• GORDELY V. I. Wide range flaw detection railcar AS5D for ane climatic conditions ...53