Detection of the depth of a surface-breaking crack using transient elastic waves

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 1678-1686

  Wu, T T ^a   Fang, J S ^a   Liu, P L ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; ELASTIC WAVES; FRACTURE DETECTION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0028977289     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.412045     Document Type: Article

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