Gas Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection for Ultrasound Inspection of Composite Materials

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 667-671

  Caron, James N ^a   Steiner, Karl V ^b   Yang, Yuqiao ^c   Mehl, James B ^c  

^a RESEARCH SUPPORT INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air coupled ultrasound; And optical beam deflection; Laser based ultrasound; Nondestructive testing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; FILM PREPARATION; GRAPHITE; LASER BEAMS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; AIR-COUPLED ULTRASOUNDS; AND OPTICAL BEAM DEFLECTION; COMPOSITE PANELS; COUPLED LASERS; GRAPHITE-POLYMER COMPOSITES; LASER BASED ULTRASOUND; LASER-ACOUSTICS; LASER-BASED; OPTICAL BEAM DEFLECTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 0011780982     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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