The generation, propagation, and detection of Lamb waves in plates using air-coupled ultrasonic transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3070-3077

  Castaings, M ^a   Cawley, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEEL;

ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0029908413     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417193     Document Type: Article

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