Lamb wave assessment of fiber volume fraction in composites

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 1399-1403

  Seale, Michael D ^a   Smith, Barry T ^b   Prosser, W H ^c   Zalameda, Joseph N ^c,d  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b Norfolk Academy   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Vehicle Technology Center

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0031713528     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424349     Document Type: Article

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