Improved ultrasonic testing of railroad rail for transverse discontinuities in the rail head using higher order Rayleigh (M21) waves

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 983-986

  Grewal, Dilawar S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RAILS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COOLING; ELASTIC MODULI; MICROCRACKS; PLASTIC FLOW; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SURFACES; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; COLD WORKED LAYER; HIGH ORDER MODE; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; RAILROAD RAILS; RAYLEIGH; TESTING TECHNIQUE; TOP SURFACE; WAVE MODES;

RAILROADS; RAILROAD TRACKS;

HIGHER ORDER RAYLEIGH WAVES; RAIL HEAD; RAILROAD RAIL; SEZAWA WAVES; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0030247147     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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