An assessment of pulse-echo and hydrophone methods for characterising ultrasonic NDT transducers

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-27

  Zeqiri, B ^a   Hodnett, M ^a   Smith, R A ^b   Scudder, L P ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDROPHONES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

C SCAN IMMERSION TESTING; PULSE ECHO METHODS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031674704     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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