Scattering of SH waves by flaws in sandwich plates and its use in flaw detection

Composite Structures

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 251-261

  Liu, G R ^a   Lam, K Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; VECTORS;

DISPLACEMENT VECTOR; FLAW DETECTION; RECTANGULAR FLAW; STRIP ELEMENT METHOD; TRACTION;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 0030107745     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-8223(95)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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