Lamb wave assessment of fatigue and thermal damage in composites

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2416-2424

  Seale, Michael D ^a,c   Smith, Barry T ^b   Prosser, W H ^c  

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

^b Norfolk Academy   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0031812721     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.422761     Document Type: Article

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