Air-Coupled Piezoelectric Detection of Laser-Generated Ultrasound

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 796-805

  Hutchins, David A ^a   Wright, William M D ^a   Hayward, Gordon ^b   Gachagan, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AIR COUPLED PIEZOELECTRIC DETECTION; LAMB WAVES; LASER GENERATED ULTRASOUND; RAYLEIGH WAVES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0028542885     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.330260     Document Type: Article

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