Thermographic Nondestructive Testing of Polymeric Composite Sandwich Panels

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1061-1070

  Cai, Liang Wu ^a   Thomas, Anton F ^a   Williams Jr , James H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Heat transfer; Nondestructive testing; Sandwich construction; Thermography

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE DECKS; HEAT TRANSFER; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MATERIALS TESTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ARBITRARY NUMBER; COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS; COMPOSITES MATERIAL; NUMBER OF LAYERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; POLYMERIC COMPOSITES; SANDWICH CONSTRUCTION; TESTING TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS; THERMOGRAPHIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0011981855     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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