Flexible interdigital PVDF transducers for the generation of Lamb waves in structures

Ultrasonics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 489-498

  Monkhouse, R S C ^a   Wilcox, P D ^a   Cawley, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lamb waves; PVDF film; Transducer design; Transducers flexible; Transducers interdigital; Transducers polymeric

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; PLASTIC FILMS; PLATE METAL; STEEL;

ANTISYMMETRIC LAMB MODES; INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCERS; LAMB WAVES; PERSPEX; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; SYMMETRIC MODES;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031274713     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(97)00070-X     Document Type: Article

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