The flat-bottom hole is one of the oldest reference/calibration standards in the field of ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE). It has been used for both calibration of ultrasonic test equipment sensitivity and for the generation of distance-amplitude correction (DAC) curves [1]. Flat-bottom holes are also useful for equivalent flaw sizing applications since they can represent the response, at normal incidence, of ideal ``perfect'' scatterers, such as flat cracks.
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Schmerr, L. W., & Sedov, A. (1989). The Scattering Response of a Flat-Bottom Hole. In Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (pp. 95–101). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0817-1_12
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