Design and construction of a new generation of flexible ultrasonic transducer arrays

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-106

  Reynolds, P ^a   Hayward, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INSPECTION; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; FLEXIBLE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; SCANNING LASER VIBROMETER;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0032003752     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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