Detection of ultrasonic anomaly signals using wavelet decomposition

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1274-1279

  Murthy, Rashmi ^a   Bilgutay, Nihat M ^a   Kaya, O Kagan ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly signals; Continuous wavelet transform; Split spectrum processing; Ultrasonic testing; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANOMALY SIGNAL; BACKGROUND NOISE; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; GRAIN-BOUNDARIES; MULTIPLE TARGETS; SPLIT SPECTRUM PROCESSING; TARGETS OF INTEREST; ULTRASONIC ANOMALIES; ULTRASONIC EVALUATION; WAVELETS DECOMPOSITION;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

GRAIN NOISE SUPPRESSION; SPLIT SPECTRUM PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC ANOMALY SIGNAL; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 0031270026     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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