Large-Area Ultrasonic Gap Profile Measurements Using Two-Dimensional PVDF “Blanket Array” Transducers

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 120-126

  Brown, Lewis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DELAY LINES; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ADHESION; ARRAYS; FABRICATION; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SURFACES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC CIRCUIT MODEL; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT THEORY; ULTRASONIC GAP;

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029218909     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.368305     Document Type: Article

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